Manager, Security Engineering

The Basics:

The Manager of Security Engineering is responsible for managing a team of cybersecurity and engineering professionals that enhance and maintain cybersecurity controls across Tanium’s managed corporate and cloud systems.  The role will be responsible for scaling and growing the team as needed to coincide with growth of the organization.  The role will also necessitate a strong component of mentoring and assisting team members with growing their careers. 

 The role is accountable for secure development and DevOps practices within Tanium’s Cybersecurity team and will orchestrate and manage initiatives to ensure continuous security improvement through partnership with business partners throughout the organization. 

What you'll do: 

• Supervise, mentor, and develop security engineer personnel
• Provide oversight of security projects and initiatives
• Design, implement, and maintain security controls throughout the enterprise
• Create and track key performance indicators reported regularly to security leadership
• Develop and maintain standards and procedures for securing Tanium
• Collaborate with business stakeholders on secure architecture practices
• Conduct risk assessments of services to identify threats and preventative controls
• Enhances processes and efficiency through automation
• Ensure the health and effectiveness of security controls
• Collaborate with internal engineering teams to drive features and product improvements 
• Embrace Kanban as a driving force for efficient, transparent, flexible work management across the security organization

We're looking for someone with:

• 5+ years of system administrator or similar experience
• 5+ years of security engineering or similar experience
• Experience with agile methodologies applied to security management
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills
• Strong knowledge of fundamental security domains (e.g., endpoint, network, cloud, etc.)
• Working knowledge of common cloud services (e.g., AWS, Azure)
• Proficiency writing maintainable code (e.g., Python) to solve security challenges
• Experience administering Linux, MacOS, and Windows operating systems
• Proficiency in DevOps practices 
• Demonstrates initiative and motivation
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Team player
• Person of high ethics and integrity
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, changing environment

About Tanium 

Tanium, the industry’s only provider of converged endpoint management (XEM), leads the paradigm shift in legacy approaches to managing complex security and technology environments. Only Tanium protects every team, endpoint, and workflow from cyber threats by integrating IT, Operations, Security, and Risk into a single platform that delivers comprehensive visibility across devices, a unified set of controls, and a common taxonomy for a single shared purpose: to protect critical information and infrastructure at scale. Tanium has been named to the Forbes Cloud 100 list for six consecutive years and ranks on Fortune’s list of the Best Large Workplaces in Technology. In fact, more than half of the Fortune 100 and the U.S. armed forces trust Tanium to protect people; defend data; secure systems; and see and control every endpoint, team, and workflow everywhere. That’s the power of certainty. Visit www.tanium.com and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

On a mission. Together. 

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.   

We are an organization with stakeholders around the world and it’s imperative that the diversity of our customers and communities is reflected internally in our team members. We strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels they have opportunities to succeed and grow because we know that only together can we do great things. 

Taking care of our team members 

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.   

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