Security Engineer Tanium
Emeryville, CA

Job Description

The Basics:

The Security Engineer role is responsible for maintaining critical security infrastructure that support day to day security operations. This includes ensuring that the infrastructure and platforms are functioning, key security endpoint agents are operational, managing policies across various endpoint and network controls, and ensuring control content is tested and up to date. In addition, this role will also work closely with engineering teams to develop and test content for the Tanium platform.

What you'll do:

* Maintain and enhance existing security solutions and infrastructure
* Design, implement and monitor health of security solutions, including endpoint agent health
* Work with different operating systems, including Windows, Mac and Linux
* Administer policy configuration for networking and endpoint security controls
* Manage solutions that monitor and secure network and cloud based technologies
* Support custom integrations and tools in scripting languages such as Python
* Participate in the design and deployment of new security solutions

We're looking for someone with:

* Education
* Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, IT or other relevant degree or equivalent work experience


* Experience
* 2+ years of IT Administration or Security Engineering experience
* Firm understanding of networking basics, including TCP/IP and layer 7 protocols
* System administration of at least one major operating system (Mac or Linux preferred)
* Working knowledge of at least one scripting language (Python or Shell preferred)
* Basic understanding of security concepts, such as system hardening and vulnerability management and remediation
* Experience maintaining critical and high visibility services for stakeholders
* Policy configuration and implementation for networking and endpoint security controls



About Tanium:

At Tanium, we empower the world's largest organizations to manage and protect their mission-critical networks. There's a reason why 6 of the top 10 retailers, 12 of the top 15 US banks, and 4 of the US Armed Forces use Tanium. We provide lightning-fast capabilities at their fingertips to see everything and do anything across their computer networks - with unparalleled scale.

We pride ourselves on being unstoppable in the pursuit of our mission. We are diverse problem solvers driven to do the right thing and win as a team. Join our team at tanium.com/careers/.