Security Engineer - Ubuntu at Canonical Nigeria

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Posted 3 years ago

Canonical is inviting credible applicants who are willing to partake in its ongoing recruitment to fill the position below:

Job Title: Security Engineer – Ubuntu

Location: Lagos

About Canonical: Canonical deliver open source to the world faster, more securely, and more cost-effectively than any other company. We develop Ubuntu, the world’s most popular enterprise Linux from cloud to edge, together with a passionate global community of 200,000 contributors. Ubuntu means ‘humanity to others. We chose it because it embodies the generosity at the heart of open source, the new normal for platforms and innovation. Together with a community of 200,000, we publish an operating system that runs from the tiny connected devices up to the world’s biggest mainframes, the platform that everybody uses on the public cloud, and the workstation experience of the world’s most productive developers.

Job Requirements

You have a thorough understanding of the common categories of security vulnerabilities and techniques for fixing them
You are familiar with coordinated disclosure practices
You are familiar with open source development tools and methodologies
You are skilled in one or more of C, Python, go, Rust, Java, Ruby or PHP
You have excellent logic, problem-solving, troubleshooting, and decision-making skills
You can clearly and effectively communicate with the team and Ubuntu community members.
Analyze, fix, and test vulnerabilities in Ubuntu packages
Keep track of vulnerabilities in Ubuntu releases as they are discovered, researched and fixed (using internal software tools)
Collaborate with other teams in the Ubuntu community and with upstream developers where appropriate, to exchange or develop vulnerability patches and make sure that Ubuntu includes the very best security features
Audit source code for vulnerabilities.