The Basics:
The Senior Systems Engineer is responsible for provisioning, configuration, operation, and maintenance of on-premises and cloud-based systems and related infrastructure. You will participate in technical research and development to drive innovation within the infrastructure and surrounding processes. Additionally, this role is responsible for ensuring technology and related processes adhere to ISO27001 and other relevant industry frameworks.
What you’ll do:
- Embrace Tanium’s mission and core values.
- Act as member of IT systems engineering team with a focus on systems management and project delivery
- Perform infrastructure deployment, management, planning, scaling, scheduling, etc.
- Drive and enhance automation wherever possible in the name of efficiency, scalability, and consistency
- Work with a variety of key business groups to architect and implement technology and solutions
- Embrace Jira and sprints as a guiding principle for organizing, prioritizing, and executing work
- Be accountable for ensuring all technology is documented, deployed and configured securely and in alignment with best practices
We’re looking for someone with:
- Education
- BS in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent experience
- Experience
- 4+ years as a Systems Administrator, Operations Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, Cloud Engineer or similar required
- 5+ years relevant enterprise experience in the following areas:
- Strong background with Linux, Windows and VMware systems administration and deployment.
- Direct administration experience with Cloud Computing & Networking Environments. Azure (preferred), AWS and GCP.
- Experience with Bash, Python and PowerShell scripting
- Experience with TCP/IP networking and troubleshooting.
- Experience with backups, high availability and overall infrastructure resiliency for cloud and on-premises technology required
- Familiarity with monitoring and management of enterprise systems running on physical and cloud infrastructure required
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code toolsets – e.g. Terraform, Vault.
- Experience with Configuration Management toolsets - Ansible (Preferred).
- Experience with SAN storage arrays and troubleshooting.
- Ability to estimate and manage cloud usage costs and identify and operationalize cost control mechanisms preferred
- Familiarity with CI tools such as Jenkins or GitHub Actions (preferred)
- Familiarity with Docker and other container technologies (Kubernetes, ECS)
- Demonstrated ability to work with Enterprise Architecture, Information Security, GRC, Product Engineering and other teams to drive architectural decisions for cloud and on-premises technologies
- Other
- Person of high ethics and integrity
- Demonstrates strong initiative and motivation
- Ability to partner with virtual team members.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, changing environment
- Azure Certifications a plus, but not required
- AWS Certifications a plus, but not required
About Tanium
Tanium delivers the industry's only true real-time cloud-based endpoint management and security offering. Its converged endpoint management (XEM) platform is real-time, seamless, and autonomous, allowing security-conscious organizations to break down silos between IT and Security operations that results in reduced complexity, cost, and risk. Securing more than 32M endpoints around the world, Tanium's customers include Fortune 100 organizations, top US retailers, top US commercial banks, and branches of the U.S. Military. It also partners with the world's biggest technology companies, system integrators, and managed service providers to help customers realize the full potential of their IT investments. Tanium has been named to the Forbes Cloud 100 list for nine consecutive years and ranks on the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For. For more information on The Power of Certainty™, visitwww.tanium.comand follow us onLinkedIn andX.
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.
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.
What you’ll get
The annual base salary range for this full-time position is $85,000 to $260,000. This range is an estimate for what Tanium will pay a new hire. The actual annual base salary offered may be adjusted based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, location, education, skills, training, and experience.
In addition to an annual base salary, team members will receive equity awards and a generous benefits package consisting of medical, dental and vision plan, family planning benefits, health savings account, flexible spending account, transportation savings account, 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match, life, accident and disability coverage, business travel accident insurance, employee assistance programs, disability insurance, and other well-being benefits.
For more information on how Tanium processes your personal data, please see our Privacy Policy
