Tanium is seeking a Senior Cloud Cybersecurity (CCS) Detection and Response Engineer to collaborate with cross-functional teams in proactively defending Tanium Cloud's services. You will be responsible for the design, implementation, and operation of preventative, detective, and responsive controls to identify, assess, and counter risks and threats.
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.
What We're Looking For
- U.S. Candidates: 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).
- Canadian Candidates: Must undergo personnel security screening and maintain Protected B reliability status.
- 5-7 years of experience in cloud security event prevention, detection, response for public cloud systems (e.g. AWS, Azure) within a DevOps environment.
Nice to Have
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
- Cloud Security, IT Security, or related technical field preferred.
Technical Stack
- Azure
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- DevOps methodologies
- SecDataOps
Work Mode
This is a global role open to candidates in the US and Canada.





