Senior Cloud Cybersecurity Engineer

Tanium Inc.

Job Overview

Location

Remote, Canada

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• The annual base salary range for this full-time position is C$154,000 to C$236,000.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience; Cloud Security, IT Security, or related technical field preferred
• 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 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)

🏖️ Benefits

• Annual base salary range of C$154,000 to C$236,000
• 5 days of volunteer time off (VTO) per year
• Opportunity to work with AI and real-time endpoint intelligence in a global organization
• Collaborative, respectful, and diverse culture
• Recognition as a great place to work and Forbes Cloud 100 listee for ten consecutive years

Skills & Technologies

Python

AWS

Azure

Kubernetes

Senior

Remote

Degree Required

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About Tanium Inc.

Tanium is a leading endpoint management and security platform that provides real-time visibility and control over all endpoints in an enterprise. Its unified platform allows organizations to manage, secure, and update their devices at scale, regardless of location or operating system. Tanium's technology helps businesses detect and respond to threats, ensure compliance, and improve operational efficiency. The company serves a wide range of industries, including finance, healthcare, and government, by offering a comprehensive solution for endpoint complexity and security challenges. Tanium's approach emphasizes speed, accuracy, and simplicity in managing and securing distributed IT environments.

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