Senior Cloud Cybersecurity Engineer

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Participate in periodic on‑call rotation for triage of critical events from detections and systems.

Darum lohnt es sich

Build, cultivate, and maintain positive relationships with internal customers to identify and facilitate solutions that increase the impact of the team's work. Solid understanding of modern attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) against Kubernetes, containers, serverless, Linux hosts, and cloud services (e.g., MITRE ATT&Ack).

Deliver high‑quality pull requests daily using modern software engineering development and automation tools such as Git and CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions). Benefits The annual base salary range for this full‑time position is C$154,000 to C$236,000.

Senior Cloud Cybersecurity (CCS) Detection and Response Engineer The Senior Cloud Cybersecurity (CCS) Detection and Response Engineer will collaborate with Detection, Security, and Software Engineers to proactively defend Tanium Cloud's services.

The role is integral to the Tanium Cloud security engineering processes, responsible for designing, implementing, and operating preventative, detective, and responsive controls to identify, assess, and counter risks and threats before they impact Tanium Cloud.

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 the defensive posture.

Proactively characterize unauthorized activity and malicious behaviors in cloud and container infrastructures 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 conduct intelligence‑driven hunts.

Collaborate with engineering, IT, and other security groups to create scalable and adaptable solutions to protect Tanium Cloud against threats ranging from low‑level actors to national cyber‑threat agents. Qualifications Education Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience. Cloud Security, IT Security, or related technical field preferred.

Location Eligibility 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.

Cloud Detection Engineering Experience 5–7 years of experience in cloud security event prevention, detection, and response for public cloud systems (e.g., AWS, Azure) within a DevOps environment. 3+ years of hands‑on experience in Kubernetes environments, 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 identifying known and unknown cyber threats. Experience 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 detection and response.

Experience with security events and incident management in highly regulated hosting environments (e.g., ISO 27001, NIST SP 800-161r3, FedRAMP, Protected B). Engineering Experience Utilize robust analytical and problem‑solving capabilities to validate hypotheses using precise data and in‑depth root‑cause investigation.

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). Other Deliver quality and velocity of contributions using DevOps principles.

Relentless desire to automate the mundane to focus on solving more complex problems. Experienced engineer who can address production incidents under pressure and implement root‑cause solutions. The actual offered salary may vary based on location, education, skills, training, and experience.

Tanium is an Equal Opportunity and Affidavit Employment employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, protected veteran status, or other legally protected categories.

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