Senior Cloud Cybersecurity Engineer

Tanium

Senior Cloud Cybersecurity Engineer collaborating across teams to defend Tanium Cloud in Azure, AWS, and Kubernetes. Responsible for security measures and detection policies in the cloud environment.

Posted 6/18/2026full-timeRemote • 🇨🇦 CanadaSenior💰 CA$154,000 - CA$236,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudKubernetesLinuxSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Collaborate with Detection, Security, and Software Engineers to proactively defend Tanium Cloud's services.
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.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
Cloud Security, IT Security, or related technical field preferred
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
3+ years of hands-on experience in Kubernetes environment, 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 identify known and unknown cyber threats, advisory behaviors
Experience in using security query or analytic tools for security data analysis, such as SQL, KQL, or SPL
Solid understanding of modern attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) against Kubernetes, Container, Serverless, Linux host, and Cloud services (e.g. MITRE ATT&CK, building threat intelligence, etc.)
Experience with security events and incident management in highly regulated hosting environments (such as ISO 27001, NIST SP 800-161r3, FedRAMP, Protected B)

Benefits

Comp & perks

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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Hard Skills & Tools

cloud securitydetection and response engineeringDevOps methodologiesKubernetessecurity data analysisSQLKQLSPLautomation as codesecurity query tools

Soft Skills

collaborationrelationship buildingproblem solvingcommunicationadaptabilityproactive mindsetteamworkcritical thinkingcustomer focustriage

Certifications

Bachelor's degreeISO 27001NIST SP 800-161r3FedRAMPProtected B reliability status