Endpoint Security Specialist - Linux / Mac
Overview
Tanium's Endpoint Security Specialist team brings together specialists with deep knowledge of endpoint forensics, incident response, and the threat landscape, to enable & support the entire organization. The team's mission is to lend its collective technical expertise, and unique perspective as practitioners, to help shape and deliver the best endpoint security platform for our customers. Endpoint Security Specialist team members are cross-functional and regularly interface with Tanium's Technical Account Managers (TAMs), product engineers, marketing and sales.
Roles/Responsibilities
• Assist Technical Account Managers across the organization with customer Endpoint Security use-cases and best practices.
• Regularly test and enhance Tanium's endpoint detection and response content. Advise customers on how to best utilize these features to address their needs.
• Lead "Incident Response with Tanium" customer training and develop new training and education content
• Support pre-sales engagements, including demonstrations and Proof-of-Concept deployments, where hands-on / past expertise in SOC or CIRT roles is required
• Create scenario-based product demonstrations for Tanium's Endpoint Security offerings; contribute to technical blog posts and other research and development
• Support the Tanium Product team with subject matter expertise throughout planning and development
• Present on Tanium's Endpoint Security capabilities and other security-related topics at conferences and industry events
• Collaborate across geographically-distributed teams
Minimum & Preferred Requirements
• Bachelors degree or equivalent experience
• Must have 7 or more years of practitioner experience performing endpoint forensics and incident investigation duties
• Experience in large enterprise organizations or delivering incident response in a professional services / consulting capacity is preferred
• Demonstrated experience with incident response and forensic sources of evidence and attacker tradecraft, with deep expertise in MacOS or Linux.
• Proficiency in Python or shell scripting
• Experience authoring endpoint forensics tools considered a strong plus but not required
• Strong presentation skills; able to comfortably communicate with deeply technical practitioner audiences and executive leadership alike
Work Requirements
• Travel Requirements: 25% time expected to travel
• Mental Abilities
• Analytical abilities: ability to analyze problem situations in depth; ability to show a probing mind.
• Number facility: the individual must be able to perform basic mathematical calculations at a minimum.
• Precision to detail: it is necessary that the individual be precise, detail-oriented, and exact.
• Flexibility: the ability to juggle several projects simultaneously, to cope successfully with diversity and complexity, to integrate seemingly unrelated data, and to reduce complex notions into relatively simple terms.
• Written and oral communication skills: ability to write memos, letters, and reports in clear, concise fashion with appropriate vocabulary, grammar, and word usage; ability to communicate effectively with superiors, peers, subordinates, and others on a one-on-one basis, using appropriate vocabulary, grammar, and word usage; includes clarity, organization of thought, and expressiveness are all part of this dimension.
• Management skills: ability to achieve results through subordinates; ability to successfully recruit, conduct selection interviews, place people, give clear direction, train, develop people for promotion, build cohesive and effective teams, monitor performance thoroughly, give constructive and ongoing performance feedback, conduct annual performance appraisals
About Tanium
Tanium offers an endpoint management and security platform built for the world’s most demanding IT environments. Many of the world’s largest and most sophisticated organizations — including nearly half of the Fortune 100, top retailers and financial institutions, and multiple branches of the U.S. Armed Forces — rely on Tanium to make confident decisions, operate efficiently, and remain resilient against disruption. Tanium has been named to the Forbes Cloud 100 list of “Top 100 Private Companies in Cloud Computing” for five consecutive years and ranks 4th on FORTUNE’s list of the “Best Workplaces in Technology 2020.”
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.
Vaccine Mandate
At Tanium, the health and safety of our employees and the community are our top priority. In our effort to control the spread of Covid-19, Tanium requires that all newly hired employees be fully vaccinated for Covid-19 as of their start date, to the extent allowed by applicable law. If you are unable to get the Covid-19 vaccine due to a medical condition, disability, or sincerely held religious belief, Tanium will engage in the interactive process and consider requests for an accommodation.
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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Tanium's Endpoint Security Specialist team brings together specialists with deep knowledge of endpoint forensics, incident response, and the threat landscape, to enable & support the entire organization. The team's mission is to lend its collective technical expertise, and unique perspective as practitioners, to help shape and deliver the best endpoint security platform for our customers. Endpoint Security Specialist team members are cross-functional and regularly interface with Tanium's Technical Account Managers (TAMs), product engineers, marketing and sales.
Roles/Responsibilities
• Assist Technical Account Managers across the organization with customer Endpoint Security use-cases and best practices.
• Regularly test and enhance Tanium's endpoint detection and response content. Advise customers on how to best utilize these features to address their needs.
• Lead "Incident Response with Tanium" customer training and develop new training and education content
• Support pre-sales engagements, including demonstrations and Proof-of-Concept deployments, where hands-on / past expertise in SOC or CIRT roles is required
• Create scenario-based product demonstrations for Tanium's Endpoint Security offerings; contribute to technical blog posts and other research and development
• Support the Tanium Product team with subject matter expertise throughout planning and development
• Present on Tanium's Endpoint Security capabilities and other security-related topics at conferences and industry events
• Collaborate across geographically-distributed teams
Minimum & Preferred Requirements
• Bachelors degree or equivalent experience
• Must have 7 or more years of practitioner experience performing endpoint forensics and incident investigation duties
• Experience in large enterprise organizations or delivering incident response in a professional services / consulting capacity is preferred
• Demonstrated experience with incident response and forensic sources of evidence and attacker tradecraft, with deep expertise in MacOS or Linux.
• Proficiency in Python or shell scripting
• Experience authoring endpoint forensics tools considered a strong plus but not required
• Strong presentation skills; able to comfortably communicate with deeply technical practitioner audiences and executive leadership alike
Work Requirements
• Travel Requirements: 25% time expected to travel
• Mental Abilities
• Analytical abilities: ability to analyze problem situations in depth; ability to show a probing mind.
• Number facility: the individual must be able to perform basic mathematical calculations at a minimum.
• Precision to detail: it is necessary that the individual be precise, detail-oriented, and exact.
• Flexibility: the ability to juggle several projects simultaneously, to cope successfully with diversity and complexity, to integrate seemingly unrelated data, and to reduce complex notions into relatively simple terms.
• Written and oral communication skills: ability to write memos, letters, and reports in clear, concise fashion with appropriate vocabulary, grammar, and word usage; ability to communicate effectively with superiors, peers, subordinates, and others on a one-on-one basis, using appropriate vocabulary, grammar, and word usage; includes clarity, organization of thought, and expressiveness are all part of this dimension.
• Management skills: ability to achieve results through subordinates; ability to successfully recruit, conduct selection interviews, place people, give clear direction, train, develop people for promotion, build cohesive and effective teams, monitor performance thoroughly, give constructive and ongoing performance feedback, conduct annual performance appraisals
About Tanium
Tanium offers an endpoint management and security platform built for the world’s most demanding IT environments. Many of the world’s largest and most sophisticated organizations — including nearly half of the Fortune 100, top retailers and financial institutions, and multiple branches of the U.S. Armed Forces — rely on Tanium to make confident decisions, operate efficiently, and remain resilient against disruption. Tanium has been named to the Forbes Cloud 100 list of “Top 100 Private Companies in Cloud Computing” for five consecutive years and ranks 4th on FORTUNE’s list of the “Best Workplaces in Technology 2020.”
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.
Vaccine Mandate
At Tanium, the health and safety of our employees and the community are our top priority. In our effort to control the spread of Covid-19, Tanium requires that all newly hired employees be fully vaccinated for Covid-19 as of their start date, to the extent allowed by applicable law. If you are unable to get the Covid-19 vaccine due to a medical condition, disability, or sincerely held religious belief, Tanium will engage in the interactive process and consider requests for an accommodation.
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.
Apply Now
Apply Now