Senior Tanium Engineer

Senior Tanium Engineer Overview

• The Senior Tanium Engineer role focuses on designing and implementing resiliency validation programs for Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, and supporting infrastructure services.
• Leverage Tanium to build endpoint visibility, compliance monitoring, health validation checks, dashboards, and reporting with automated remediation via Ansible.
• Remote role with potential travel requirements to NYC during the initial phase; open to candidates across the US.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to architect monitoring solutions independently and drive automation initiatives.
• Opportunity to work on enterprise-scale endpoint environments and validate high-availability solutions.
• Engage in controlled failover testing, resiliency exercises, and infrastructure dependency validation.
• Contribute to self-healing infrastructure initiatives and event-driven remediation processes.
• Ideal for professionals seeking to enhance their expertise in Tanium engineering and automation integration.

Senior Tanium Engineer Key Responsibilities & Duties

• Design and implement Tanium-based resiliency validation frameworks, including custom sensors, packages, and dashboards.
• Develop Tanium checks for Active Directory health, replication, and configuration drift monitoring.
• Build DNS validation sensors for server health, resolution performance, and endpoint configuration compliance.
• Implement DHCP monitoring for scope utilization, lease activity, and failover state assessments.
• Conduct infrastructure dependency validation and identify resiliency risks and single points of failure.
• Integrate Tanium findings with Ansible workflows for automated remediation processes.
• Participate in disaster recovery validation and controlled failover testing exercises.
• Support self-healing infrastructure initiatives and event-driven remediation processes.

Senior Tanium Engineer Job Requirements

• Bachelor of Science (BS) in a relevant field is required.
• 5+ years of Tanium administration and engineering experience; 10+ years preferred.
• Proficiency in developing custom Tanium sensors, packages, and actions.
• Strong understanding of Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Windows Server, and domain controller operations.
• Experience integrating Tanium with automation platforms; Ansible expertise preferred.
• Tanium Certified Professional or equivalent certification is preferred.
• Experience with enterprise monitoring platforms and hybrid cloud environments.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code concepts and security compliance monitoring.