Is the IT Operations Engineer position at Tanium fully remote?

Yes, this IT Operations Engineer position at Tanium is a remote position. The role is available for candidates in United States.

Is this a full-time or part-time IT Operations Engineer role?

This is a full-time IT Operations Engineer position at Tanium.

What benefits does Tanium offer for this position?

Tanium offers the following benefits: Dental Insurance, Vision Insurance, Life Insurance, Disability Insurance, Employee Assistance Program, Volunteer Time Off.

What is the salary range for the IT Operations Engineer position?

The salary range for this IT Operations Engineer role is $100k - $155k.

How do I apply for the IT Operations Engineer position at Tanium?

You can apply for this IT Operations Engineer position by clicking the "Apply Now" button on this page, which will take you to Tanium's application portal.

IT Operations Engineer at Tanium

United States

$100k - $155k

The Basics The Operations Engineer is responsible for provisioning, installation/configuration, operation, and maintenance of systems hardware and software and related infrastructure with a particular focus on support for R&D people, processes and technology. This role participates in technical research and development to enable continuing innovation across Tanium’s R&D and Engineering infrastructure while ensure hardware, operating systems, software systems, and related procedures are operational, secure, and well maintained.    Minimum Job Qualifications   <ul> <li>Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Experience </li> <li>2-3 years relevant work experience </li> <li>Experience with Meraki network hardware and web interface </li> <li>Direct experience working with AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud </li> <li>Experience managing common services, such as DNS, DHCP, and Active Directory </li> <li>Familiar with monitoring and analytics tools, such as Nagios, Splunk, CheckMK, and/or DataDog </li> <li>Basic understanding of common network technologies and protocols </li> <li>Problem solving skills required to analyze complex situations and use various commercial / open-source tools to quickly resolve technical challenges </li> <li>Authorized to work in the U.S. </li> </ul> Preferred Job Qualifications  <ul> <li>3-5 years relevant work experience </li> <li>Highly-competitive candidates will have knowledge of and hands-on experience with the following technologies: </li> <li>Tanium </li> <li>Ansible </li> <li>Python, Windows & Linux shell scripting </li> <li>Github Enterprise, Artifactory, Jenkins, Cloudflare </li> <li>Experience writing scripts in common scripting languages (e.g. Python and Bash and PowerShell) </li> </ul> Essential Job Functions  <ul> <li>Travel on short notice for network troubleshooting as needed </li> <li>Manage the day to day operations of Tanium’s infrastructure </li> <li>Participate in the planning of both short and long-term goals and direction for IT </li> <li>Develop tools for automation of tasks and integration of other central IT services </li> <li>Follows the change management process </li> <li>Document system configuration, installations, and maintenance processes </li> <li>Collaborate with DevOps and Engineering teams to resolve operational challenges and streamline workflows </li> </ul> Core Competencies  <ul> <li>Demonstrates initiative and motivation </li> <li>Excellent oral and written communication skills </li> <li>Team player </li> <li>Person of high ethics and integrity </li> <li>Ability to work in a fast-paced, changing environment </li> </ul>   Security & Privacy Roles & Responsibilities  All roles at Tanium have access to Tanium Confidential Information, therefore, Tanium assigns a universal Position Risk Designation to all roles to hold everyone to the highest possible standard. All roles at Tanium are subject to the following requirements:  <ul> <li>Protection of Tanium information and other assets </li> <li>Compliance with Tanium policies and terms of applicable agreements with Tanium </li> </ul> Additional privacy and security-specific duties, skills and qualifications relevant to the role, if any:     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™, visit <a href="http://www.tanium.com/">www.tanium.com</a> and follow us on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/tanium">LinkedIn</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/Tanium">X</a>.    Work Requirements  <ul> <li>Travel Requirements: [5% of time or less expected to travel] </li> <li>As needed short notice travel to support the network health </li> <li>Mental Abilities </li> <li>Analytical abilities: ability to analyze problem situations in depth; ability to show a probing mind. </li> <li>Number facility: the individual must be able to perform basic mathematical calculations at a minimum. </li> <li>Precision to detail: it is necessary that the individual be precise, detail-oriented, and exact. </li> <li>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. </li> <li>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. </li> <li>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 </li> <li>Physical & Mental Abilities and Demands </li> <li>Use of Fingers/Hands: Typing, or otherwise working primarily with fingers rather than with whole hand or arm as in handling. </li> <li>Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Those activities in which they must convey detail or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly. </li> <li>Hearing: Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make fine discriminations in sound, such as when making fine adjustments on machine parts. </li> <li>Repetitive motions: Substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers. </li> <li>Vision: The incumbent is required to distinguish between true colors, perceive depth, and partial field of vision is required at a minimum for the position. </li> <li>Work Environment </li> <li>The worker is subject to inside environmental conditions: Protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes. </li> </ul> About Tanium  <div>Tanium is the Autonomous IT company. Driven by AI and real-time endpoint intelligence, Tanium Autonomous IT empowers IT and security teams to make their organizations unstoppable.</div> <div> </div> <div>Many of the world’s leading organizations trust Tanium’s single, unified platform for endpoint management and security to innovate faster, stay resilient and move business forward with confidence, at scale. To learn how Tanium delivers Autonomous IT for unstoppable business – visit <a id="OWA8cd82040-d6a4-2e07-8c22-f773746075e4" href="http://www.tanium.com/" target="_blank" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0">www.tanium.com</a> and follow us on <a id="OWA51246dd5-7f28-280e-6637-139dda4774bb" href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/tanium" target="_blank" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="1">LinkedIn</a> and <a id="OWAd79eefc3-ede9-5e26-14d4-517b82af2392" href="https://twitter.com/Tanium" target="_blank" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="2">X</a>.</div> 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.    As a global organization with stakeholders around the world, 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.   Our commitment to excellence and innovation has earned us a place on the Forbes Cloud 100 list for ten consecutive years, and we continue to be recognized worldwide as a great place to work.  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 $100,000 to $155,000. 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.  <div class="content-conclusion">Tanium is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, protected Veteran status, or other legally protected categories. If you require a reasonable accommodation in searching for a job opening, completing an application, interviewing, or completing any pre-employment testing or requirements, please contact <a href="mailto:accommodations@tanium.com">accommodations@tanium.com</a>. For more information refer to the “Know Your Rights” poster which is available here - <a href="https://www.eeoc.gov/poster" target="_blank">https://www.eeoc.gov/poster</a>. Please be aware of job offers coming from people claiming to be Tanium employees. Tanium employees will only use @tanium.com email addresses to communicate with you, will have video interviews with you, and will never ask you for money. <a href="https://www.cigna.com/legal/compliance/machine-readable-files" target="_blank">This link</a> leads to the machine readable files that are made available in response to the federal Transparency in Coverage Rule and includes negotiated service rates and out-of-network allowed amounts between health plans and healthcare providers. The machine-readable files are formatted to allow researchers, regulators, and application developers to more easily access and analyze data. For more information on how Tanium processes your personal data, please see our <a href="https://www.tanium.com/privacy-policy/" target="_blank" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-safelink="true" data-linkindex="0">Privacy Policy</a>.</div>

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IT Operations Engineer

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IT Operations Engineer

Tanium

Full Time

$100k - $155k

2 weeks ago

The Basics The Op erat ions Engineer is responsible for provisioning, i nsta llat ion/configu ration, operation, and maintenance of systems hardware and software and related infrastructure with a particular focus on support for R&D people, processes and technology .

United States

Engineering

Mid

IT operations

Infrastructure Maintenance

AWS

+5 more

Job Description

The Basics

The Operations Engineer is responsible for provisioning, installation/configuration, operation, and maintenance of systems hardware and software and related infrastructure with a particular focus on support for R&D people, processes and technology. This role participates in technical research and development to enable continuing innovation across Tanium’s R&D and Engineering infrastructure while ensure hardware, operating systems, software systems, and related procedures are operational, secure, and well maintained.

Minimum Job Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Experience
2-3 years relevant work experience
Experience with Meraki network hardware and web interface
Direct experience working with AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud
Experience managing common services, such as DNS, DHCP, and Active Directory
Familiar with monitoring and analytics tools, such as Nagios, Splunk, CheckMK, and/or DataDog
Basic understanding of common network technologies and protocols
Problem solving skills required to analyze complex situations and use various commercial / open-source tools to quickly resolve technical challenges
Authorized to work in the U.S.

Preferred Job Qualifications

3-5 years relevant work experience
Highly-competitive candidates will have knowledge of and hands-on experience with the following technologies:
Tanium
Ansible
Python, Windows & Linux shell scripting
Github Enterprise, Artifactory, Jenkins, Cloudflare
Experience writing scripts in common scripting languages (e.g. Python and Bash and PowerShell)

Essential Job Functions

Travel on short notice for network troubleshooting as needed
Manage the day to day operations of Tanium’s infrastructure
Participate in the planning of both short and long-term goals and direction for IT
Develop tools for automation of tasks and integration of other central IT services
Follows the change management process
Document system configuration, installations, and maintenance processes
Collaborate with DevOps and Engineering teams to resolve operational challenges and streamline workflows

Core Competencies

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

Security & Privacy Roles & Responsibilities

All roles at Tanium have access to Tanium Confidential Information, therefore, Tanium assigns a universal Position Risk Designation to all roles to hold everyone to the highest possible standard. All roles at Tanium are subject to the following requirements:

Protection of Tanium information and other assets
Compliance with Tanium policies and terms of applicable agreements with Tanium

Additional privacy and security-specific duties, skills and qualifications relevant to the role, if any:

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™, visit www.tanium.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X.

Work Requirements

Travel Requirements: [5% of time or less expected to travel]
As needed short notice travel to support the network health
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
Physical & Mental Abilities and Demands
Use of Fingers/Hands: Typing, or otherwise working primarily with fingers rather than with whole hand or arm as in handling.
Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Those activities in which they must convey detail or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
Hearing: Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make fine discriminations in sound, such as when making fine adjustments on machine parts.
Repetitive motions: Substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.
Vision: The incumbent is required to distinguish between true colors, perceive depth, and partial field of vision is required at a minimum for the position.
Work Environment
The worker is subject to inside environmental conditions: Protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes.

About Tanium

Tanium is the Autonomous IT company. Driven by AI and real-time endpoint intelligence, Tanium Autonomous IT empowers IT and security teams to make their organizations unstoppable.

Many of the world’s leading organizations trust Tanium’s single, unified platform for endpoint management and security to innovate faster, stay resilient and move business forward with confidence, at scale. To learn how Tanium delivers Autonomous IT for unstoppable business – visit www.tanium.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X.

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.

As a global organization with stakeholders around the world, 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.

Our commitment to excellence and innovation has earned us a place on the Forbes Cloud 100 list for ten consecutive years, and we continue to be recognized worldwide as a great place to work.

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 $100,000 to $155,000. 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.

Tanium is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, protected Veteran status, or other legally protected categories. If you require a reasonable accommodation in searching for a job opening, completing an application, interviewing, or completing any pre-employment testing or requirements, please contact accommodations@tanium.com. For more information refer to the “Know Your Rights” poster which is available here - https://www.eeoc.gov/poster.

Please be aware of job offers coming from people claiming to be Tanium employees. Tanium employees will only use @tanium.com email addresses to communicate with you, will have video interviews with you, and will never ask you for money.

This link leads to the machine readable files that are made available in response to the federal Transparency in Coverage Rule and includes negotiated service rates and out-of-network allowed amounts between health plans and healthcare providers. The machine-readable files are formatted to allow researchers, regulators, and application developers to more easily access and analyze data.

For more information on how Tanium processes your personal data, please see our Privacy Policy.

Benefits

Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Life Insurance
Disability Insurance
Employee Assistance Program
Volunteer Time Off

Skills

IT operations

Infrastructure Maintenance

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

DNS

DHCP

Active Directory

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$100k - $155k

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