Sr. Cloud Cybersecurity Engineer

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The Basics: 

The Senior Cloud Cybersecurity (CCS) Detection and Response Engineer will collaborate with Detection, Security, and Software Engineers to proactively defend Tanium Cloud's services. You will be an integral part of the Tanium Cloud security engineering processes, responsible for the design, implementation, and operation of preventative, detective, and responsive controls to identify, assess, and counter risks and threats before impacting Tanium Cloud.   

What you'll do: 

• Build and operate Tanium Cloud's detection and response engineering in Azure, AWS, and Kubernetes for detections, analysis, and responses as automation as code using DevOps methodologies
• Continuously evaluate and enhance the design and effectiveness of Cloud and Kubernetes security measures and establish an ongoing program to advance security and close gaps in our defensive posture.
• Proactively characterize unauthorized activity and malicious behaviors in our cloud and container infrastructure and systems through code, testing, and automation
• Develop tailored detection policies, perform testing, and implement automation to observe, evaluate, enhance, and review security information using SecDataOps and best practices.
• Proactively integrate the latest security threats, vulnerabilities, and industry trends to enhance security detection measures and generate intelligence driven hunts.
• Work together with the engineering, IT, and other security groups to create solutions that are expandable and adaptable to protect Tanium Cloud against threats ranging from low-level actors to national cyber-threat agents.
• Build, cultivate, and maintain positive relationships with internal customers to identify and facilitate solutions to increase the impact of the team's work
• Be on periodic on-call for triage of critical events from detections and systems

We're looking for someone with: 

Education: 

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• Cloud Security, IT Security, or related technical field preferred

Locality 

• U.S. Candidates: In accordance with United States government customer requirements, applicants for this role must be a U.S. citizen, national, or resident pursuant to 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(20) and 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)

OR 

• Canadian Candidates: In accordance with Canadian government customer requirements, applicants for this role must undergo personnel security screening and maintain Protected B reliability status

Cloud Detection Engineering Experience 

• 5-7 years of experience in cloud security event prevention, detection, response for public cloud systems (e.g. AWS, Azure) within a DevOps environment
• 3+ years of hands-on experience in Kubernetes environment, logging, and runtime security for sensitive container workloads, preferably on AKS and EKS
• Experience in detection and response engineering methodologies, such as building detection cases, proactively identify known and unknown cyber threats, advisory behaviors
• Experience in using security query or analytic tools for security data analysis, such as SQL, KQL, or SPL
• Build and improve security playbooks and runbooks for automating security detection and response
• Solid understanding of modern attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) against Kubernetes, Container, Serverless, Linux host, and Cloud services (e.g. MITRE ATT&CK, building threat intelligence, etc.)
• Experience with security events and incident management in highly regulated hosting environments (such as ISO 27001, NIST SP 800-161r3, FedRAMP, Protected B)

Engineering Experience 

• Utilize robust analytical and problem-solving capabilities to confirm our hypotheses using precise data and in-depth root cause investigation.
• Experience using high-level programming languages (Go, Python) to produce detection-as-code, tools, and automations
• Experience managing cloud infrastructure as infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM, Pulumi)
• Deliver high quality PRs daily using modern software engineering development and automation tools like Git and CI/CD pipelines (i.e. Jenkins, GitHub Actions)

Other 

• Deliver quality and velocity of contributions using DevOps principles
• Relentless desire to automate the mundane to focus on solving the harder problems
• Experienced engineer who can put out fires under pressure when things go wrong in production environments and address the root causes of those fires for the future

About Tanium

Tanium is the Autonomous IT company. Driven by AI and real-time endpoint intelligence, Tanium Autonomous IT empowers IT and security teams to make their organizations unstoppable.

Many of the world’s leading organizations trust Tanium’s single, unified platform for endpoint management and security to innovate faster, stay resilient and move business forward with confidence, at scale. To learn how Tanium delivers Autonomous IT for unstoppable business – visit www.tanium.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X.

On a mission. Together.

At Tanium, we are stewards of a culture that emphasizes the importance of collaboration, respect, and diversity. In our pursuit of revolutionizing the way some of the largest enterprises and governments in the world solve their most difficult IT challenges, we are strengthened by our unique perspectives and by our collective actions.

As a global organization with stakeholders around the world, it’s imperative that the diversity of our customers and communities is reflected internally in our team members. We strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels they have opportunities to succeed and grow because we know that only together can we do great things.

Our commitment to excellence and innovation has earned us a place on the Forbes Cloud 100 list for ten consecutive years, and we continue to be recognized worldwide as a great place to work.

Each of our team members has 5 days set aside as volunteer time off (VTO) to contribute to the communities they live in and give back to the causes they care about most.

What you’ll get

The annual base salary range for this full-time position is $120,000 to $355,000. This range is an estimate for what Tanium will pay a new hire. The actual annual base salary offered may be adjusted based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, location, education, skills, training, and experience.

In addition to an annual base salary, team members will receive equity awards and a generous benefits package consisting of medical, dental and vision plan, family planning benefits, health savings account, flexible spending account, transportation savings account, 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match, life, accident and disability coverage, business travel accident insurance, employee assistance programs, disability insurance, and other well-being benefits.

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