<h3>Job Description</h3>
Job DescriptionSalary: $40-$55/Hour DOE 
Holiday Magic Studios is actively searching for Santa Claus Actors who exemplify warmth, jolliness, and professionalism!
 
Company Background:
Holiday Magic Studios Inc. is a full-service seasonal photography provider with its headquarters in Fresno, CA. In operation for nearly 20 years, weve operated studios at some of the most well-known and prestigious lifestyle centers in California. Our mission at Holiday Magic Studios is to provide a premium quality, highly immersive experience for each guest.
 
Position Summary:
Holiday Magic Studios specializes in creating and capturing magic moments for families during the holiday season. Unlike traditional mall Santa photos, we offer five-minute private appointments that focus on Santas interaction with the family. We provide 50-100 high-quality photos per session (both posed and candid), capturing the magic of the moment. We're looking for enthusiastic, charismatic, and caring individuals to bring the magic of Santa Claus to life!
 
Duties &amp; Responsibilities:
<ul>
<li>Appearance &amp; Hygiene: Arrive for each shift on time, well-groomed, and dressed in your company-issued costume, ready to create a magical and immersive experience for each family. </li>
<li>Family Interaction: Engage warmly with families during 5-minute private appointments, making each family feel special and heard.</li>
<li>Photo Poses: Work with the photographer to strike various poses, ensuring each family enjoys their visit.</li>
<li>Character Authenticity: Maintain the persona, voice, and mannerisms of Santa Claus throughout all interactions.</li>
<li>Script Learning: Familiarize yourself with light scripts or key phrases that maintain the enchanting aura of Santa Claus. </li>
<li>Safety Protocols: Adhere to all safety and health regulations to protect yourself and guests.</li>
<li>Special Events &amp; Media Appearances: Participate in special events such as tree lighting ceremonies and Santa arrivals as well as conduct fun lighthearted interviews with local news personalities to promote the studio on an as-needed basis.</li>
</ul>
 
Qualifications &amp; Requirements:
<ul>
<li>Beard Authenticity: Santa actors/models must maintain a well-groomed, white beard to be considered for employment.</li>
<li>Previous Acting Experience: Preference will be given to candidates who have previous experience playing Santa, but previous experience is not required.</li>
<li>Communication Skills: Exceptional ability to communicate warmly and effectively with both children and adults.</li>
<li>Leadership Qualities: Strong leadership skills to manage the session effectively, ensuring a smooth and enjoyable experience for all. </li>
<li>Physical Requirements: Ability to sit for extended periods and to lift up to 30 pounds, if necessary.</li>
<li>Background Check: Must pass a comprehensive background check for the safety of our guests.</li>
<li>Holiday Availability: Must be available to work a flexible schedule, including evenings and weekends, particularly during the holiday season.</li>
<li>Personal Hygiene: Commitment to maintaining a well-groomed appearance, in line with the characters image.</li>
<li>Interpersonal Skills: Ability to quickly build rapport with families and children, making them feel comfortable and at ease.</li>
<li>Patience in Challenging Situations: Ability to remain patient and composed when faced with challenging or unexpected situations, such as hesitant or nervous children.</li>
</ul>

Santa Claus Actor (Seasonal)

<h3>Job Description</h3>
Job Description
We have opened several senior/staff Security Operations Engineer (SOC) positions, creating a new team reporting to the CISO. We are looking for a range of experience in these positions - at the high end we are looking for deep experience defending highly contested critical assets and high-value cyber targets against advanced persistent threats and state-level actors. We have more junior roles for exceptional individuals with a proven personal interest an engagement in cyber attack and defence, and outstanding academic and career performance even if experience is limited.
Our goal is to build an entirely new level of assurance and observable rigour into the open source supply chain. We have our own estate to monitor, but more broadly our goal is to raise the robustness of the entire global Ubuntu estate through the work of this team.
The Security Operations (SecOps) team is responsible for design, implementation and evolution of Canonical security practices, techniques, tools, systems and policies. The team is the primary owner of strategy and practices that determine how Canonical secures its data, internal infrastructure and build processes. They are responsible for assuring the security and integrity of our own infrastructure and product deployments. They design and implement technical security controls that ensure security threats are automatically identified, contained and remediated. The team will also contribute ideas and requirements for Canonical product security, improving the resilience and robustness of all Ubuntu customers and users subject to cyber attack.
The SecOps team's mission is not only to secure Canonical, but also to contribute to the security of the wider open source ecosystem. They might share knowledge through public presentations and industry events, and share threat intelligence with the wider community or represent Canonical in sector-specific governance bodies.
What you will do in this role:
<ul>
<li>Implement and evolve Canonical's Security Operation Center</li>
<li>Analyse and improve Canonical's security architecture</li>
<li>Evaluate, select and implement new security tools and practices</li>
<li>Identify, contain and guide the remediation of security threats and cyber attacks</li>
<li>Grow the presence and thought leadership of Canonical SecOps practice</li>
<li>Contribute to open source threat intelligence initiatives</li>
<li>Drive threat modelling, table top exercises and other SecOps practices across Engineering, IS and Canonical</li>
<li>Develop Canonical SecOps learning and development materials</li>
<li>Publish blog posts, whitepapers and conference presentations</li>
<li>Identify, implement and track SecOps KPIs</li>
<li>Plan and deliver SecOps work in the framework of Canonical's agile engineering practice</li>
<li>Work with Security leadership to present information and influence change</li>
</ul>
What we are looking for
<ul>
<li>An exceptional academic track record </li>
<li>Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM, or a compelling narrative about your alternative path</li>
<li>Previous professional experience working or leading a Security Operation Center</li>
<li>Deep personal motivation to be at the forefront of technology security</li>
<li>Expertise in threat modelling and risk management frameworks</li>
<li>Knowledge of security architecture and market-leading security tools</li>
<li>Experience contributing to, and consuming, threat intelligence feeds</li>
<li>Experience in security risk management frameworks such as NIST CSF and ISO27001</li>
</ul>
Optional things we value
<ul>
<li>Experience in a security operations team or a security operations centre (SOC)</li>
<li>Experience in offensive or defensive security teams with hands-on ability</li>
<li>Experience with state-actor and other advanced persistent threats</li>
</ul>
What we offer you
We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognise outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus. We provide all team members with additional benefits, which reflect our values and ideals. We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally.
<ul>
<li>Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person</li>
<li>Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year</li>
<li>Annual compensation review</li>
<li>Recognition rewards</li>
<li>Annual holiday leave</li>
<li>Maternity and paternity leave</li>
<li>Employee Assistance Programme</li>
<li>Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues</li>
<li>Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events</li>
</ul>
About Canonical
Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud, we are changing the world on a daily basis. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence - in order to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do. Canonical has been a remote-first company since its inception in 2004.​ Working here is a step into the future, and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game.
Canonical is an equal opportunity employer
We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.
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Senior Security Operations Engineer

<h3>Job Description</h3>
Job Description
We have opened several senior/staff Security Operations Engineer (SOC) positions, creating a new team reporting to the CISO. We are looking for a range of experience in these positions - at the high end we are looking for deep experience defending highly contested critical assets and high-value cyber targets against advanced persistent threats and state-level actors. We have more junior roles for exceptional individuals with a proven personal interest an engagement in cyber attack and defence, and outstanding academic and career performance even if experience is limited.
Our goal is to build an entirely new level of assurance and observable rigour into the open source supply chain. We have our own estate to monitor, but more broadly our goal is to raise the robustness of the entire global Ubuntu estate through the work of this team.
The Security Operations (SecOps) team is responsible for design, implementation and evolution of Canonical security practices, techniques, tools, systems and policies. The team is the primary owner of strategy and practices that determine how Canonical secures its data, internal infrastructure and build processes. They are responsible for assuring the security and integrity of our own infrastructure and product deployments. They design and implement technical security controls that ensure security threats are automatically identified, contained and remediated. The team will also contribute ideas and requirements for Canonical product security, improving the resilience and robustness of all Ubuntu customers and users subject to cyber attack.
The SecOps team's mission is not only to secure Canonical, but also to contribute to the security of the wider open source ecosystem. They might share knowledge through public presentations and industry events, and share threat intelligence with the wider community or represent Canonical in sector-specific governance bodies.
What you will do in this role:
<ul>
<li>Implement and evolve Canonical's SecOps security standards and playbooks</li>
<li>Analyse and improve Canonical's security architecture</li>
<li>Evaluate, select and implement new security tools and practices</li>
<li>Identify, contain and guide the remediation of security threats and cyber attacks</li>
<li>Grow the presence and thought leadership of Canonical SecOps practice</li>
<li>Contribute to open source threat intelligence initiatives</li>
<li>Drive threat modelling, table top exercises and other SecOps practices across Engineering, IS and Canonical</li>
<li>Develop Canonical SecOps learning and development materials</li>
<li>Publish blog posts, whitepapers and conference presentations</li>
<li>Identify, implement and track SecOps KPIs</li>
<li>Plan and deliver SecOps work in the framework of Canonical's agile engineering practice</li>
<li>Work with Security leadership to present information and influence change</li>
</ul>
What we are looking for
<ul>
<li>An exceptional academic track record </li>
<li>Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM, or a compelling narrative about your alternative path</li>
<li>Drive and a track record of going above-and-beyond expectations</li>
<li>Deep personal motivation to be at the forefront of technology security</li>
<li>Expertise in threat modelling and risk management frameworks</li>
<li>Knowledge of security architecture and market-leading security tools</li>
<li>Experience contributing to, and consuming, threat intelligence feeds</li>
<li>Experience in security risk management frameworks such as NIST CSF</li>
<li>Experience with security standards such as ISO 27001</li>
</ul>
Optional things we value
<ul>
<li>Experience in a security operations team or a security operations centre (SOC)</li>
<li>Experience in offensive or defensive security teams with hands-on ability</li>
<li>Experience with state-actor and other advanced persistent threats</li>
</ul>
What we offer you
We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognise outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus. We provide all team members with additional benefits, which reflect our values and ideals. We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally.
<ul>
<li>Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person</li>
<li>Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year</li>
<li>Annual compensation review</li>
<li>Recognition rewards</li>
<li>Annual holiday leave</li>
<li>Maternity and paternity leave</li>
<li>Employee Assistance Programme</li>
<li>Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues</li>
<li>Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events</li>
</ul>
About Canonical
Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud, we are changing the world on a daily basis. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence - in order to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do. Canonical has been a remote-first company since its inception in 2004.​ Working here is a step into the future, and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game.
Canonical is an equal opportunity employer
We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.
#LI-remote

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