Tanium Security
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Role & responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, configure, administer, and troubleshoot Tanium Core and associated modules.
- Build and maintain Tanium Sensors, Packages, Computer Groups, and Module Profiles.
- Configure and support Threat Response-related profiles such as Detect, Recorder, Index, and Stream.
- Manage large-scale Tanium client deployments across Windows and Linux endpoint environments.
- Design and operate Tanium Patch processes including:
- Patch deployment planning
- Ring/wave-based deployment
- Scheduling
- Remediation workflows
- Patch compliance reporting
- Configure and manage Tanium Integrity Monitor for file and configuration change monitoring.
- Build integrations between Tanium and enterprise platforms such as:
- SIEM
- ITSM
- CMDB
- Data analytics/reporting platforms
- Support endpoint telemetry ingestion, automated ticketing, dashboards, reporting, and compliance workflows.
- Create and maintain architecture documents, SOPs, operational runbooks, implementation procedures, and support documentation.
- Participate in security architecture and design reviews.
- Work with infrastructure, security, endpoint, application, database, and operations teams.
- Support compliance and security frameworks such as NIST, CIS, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, and Zero Trust architectures.
- Automate administrative and security workflows using scripting languages such as PowerShell, Python, or Bash.
- Troubleshoot complex endpoint, security tooling, integration, and platform issues.
- Provide technical guidance to customer stakeholders and engineering teams.
- Participate in customer calls, solution discussions, architecture reviews, and implementation planning.
Mandatory Technical Skills
- Strong hands-on Tanium Core administration
- Tanium Sensors and Packages
- Tanium Client deployment and endpoint grouping
- Tanium Patch
- Tanium Integrity Monitor
- Tanium Threat Response / THR concepts
- Tanium Connect
- SIEM / ITSM integrations
- Windows and Linux endpoint environments
- Patch management and remediation
- Endpoint security architecture
- Security operations
- Security architecture/design
- PowerShell / Python / Bash scripting
- Technical documentation and runbook/SOP creation