IT Operations Engineer

The Basics

The IT 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.

What you'll do

• 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
• Serve as the primary liaison for engineering transactional matters

We’re looking for someone with

• Education
  • Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Experience
    
• Experience
  • 2-3 years relevant work experience
  • Deep technical knowledge of fundamental infrastructure technologies, such as VMware, Proxmox, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Enterprise backup methodologies, System Automation, Cloud Computing, and common Operating Systems (e.g. Windows, Linux, MacOS)
  • 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, OpManager, 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 Experience
• • 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) 

About Tanium 

Tanium delivers the industry's only true real-time cloud-based endpoint management and security offering. Its 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. 

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. 

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.   

What you’ll get

The annual base salary range for this full-time position is $70,000 to $205,000. 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.

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