Tanium
Senior Cloud Cybersecurity Engineer
Remote, Canada · Senior · Full-time
Work authorization required$161k-$800kDetected 34 days ago
PythonGoGitSQLAWSAzureCloud PlatformsKubernetesTerraformCI/CDGitHub ActionsJenkinsLinuxDevOpsData AnalysisCybersecurityKQLDetection EngineeringComplianceCollaborationProblem SolvingAdaptability
About the role
- Driven by AI and real-time endpoint intelligence, Tanium Autonomous IT empowers IT and security teams to make their organizations unstoppable.
- 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.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- Develop tailored detection policies, perform testing, and implement automation to observe, evaluate, enhance, and review security information using SecDataOps and best practices.
- 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.
- Experience in detection and response engineering methodologies, such as building detection cases, proactively identify known and unknown cyber threats, advisory behaviors
- 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.)
Requirements
- 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)
- 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)
- 5-7 years of experience in cloud security event prevention, detection, response for public cloud systems (e.g. AWS, Azure) within a DevOps environment
- Experience with security events and incident management in highly regulated hosting environments (such as ISO 27001, NIST SP 800-161r3, FedRAMP, Protected B)
Nice to have
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- Cloud Security, IT Security, or related technical field preferred
Skills
- Cloud Detection Engineering Experience
- Experience in using security query or analytic tools for security data analysis, such as SQL, KQL, or SPL
- 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)
Compensation
- The annual base salary range for this full-time position is C$154,000 to C$236,000.
Benefits
- 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.
Company info
- Build, cultivate, and maintain positive relationships with internal customers to identify and facilitate solutions to increase the impact of the team's work
- We're looking for someone with:
Equal opportunity
- Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer.
- If you require a reasonable accommodation in searching for a job opening, completing an application, interviewing, or completing any pre-employment testing or requirements, please contact accommodations@tanium.com.
Visa & Work Authorization
- citizen, national, or resident pursuant to 8 U
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