About the role

Senior Cloud Cybersecurity Engineer responsible for cloud security engineering at Tanium. Collaborate to protect cloud infrastructure against threats in Azure, AWS, and Kubernetes.

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.
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

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 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 (e.g. ISO 27001, NIST SP 800-161r3, FedRAMP, Protected B)
Experience using high-level programming languages (Go, Python) to produce detection-as-code, tools, and automations