Senior Cloud Security Operations Specialist

San Jose, California, United States

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TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and its offices include New York, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Why Join Us
Creation is the core of TikTok's purpose. Our platform is built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make TikTok possible.
Together, we inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we all believe in and aim towards achieving every day.
To us, every challenge, no matter how difficult, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always.
At TikTok, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the communities we serve.
Join us.

The Global Security Organization provides industry-leading cyber-security and business protection services to TikTok globally. Our organization employs four principles that guide our strategic and tactical operations. Firstly, we Champion Transparency & Trust by leading the charge in organizational transparency, prioritizing customer trust, and placing user needs first. Secondly, we aim to maintain Best in Class Global Security by proactively identifying and reducing risks while enabling innovative product development. We constantly work towards a sustainable world-class security capability. Thirdly, we strive to be a Business Catalyst & Enabler by embodying the DNA of technical innovation and ensuring our Global Security operations are fast and agile. Finally, we Drive Empowered & Risk-Informed Decision Making by providing our leaders with the necessary information to make agile decisions based on risk. In order to enhance collaboration and cross-functional partnerships, our organization follows a hybrid work schedule that requires employees to work in the office for 2 to 3 days a week, as directed by their manager. We regularly review our hybrid work model, and the specific requirements may change at any time.

This role is a part of Cloud Security within the Security Tools Operations team. As a Cloud Security Operations Specialist, you will be part of a team that manages the design, engineering, and deployment of tools and technologies to monitor our global cloud infrastructure footprint. These tools help validate asset inventory, ensure proper access, and detect/prevent cloud-based misconfigurations and vulnerabilities. You will also assist our network and endpoint security teams in consistently applying our security tooling like CWPP, WAF, Anti-DDOS, and IDS technologies to ensure our public cloud environments remain secure. Lastly, you will serve as a cloud SME, performing architecture design reviews, training sessions, and ad-hoc support during investigations and projects while working with our vulnerability management, incident response, GRC, and other XFN teams within GSO and the broader TikTok organization.

The candidate must be skilled in assessing current state of various cloud environments against industry best practices, identifying functional and technical requirements for cloud security tooling, implementing cloud-native and third party security solutions in a multi-cloud environment, and conducting analysis on cloud related threats, incidents and other general security-related issues. The candidate must also have the ability to communicate well, participate in coordinating response and defensive actions over a variety of security disciplines, and disseminate security information as appropriate in support of TikTok's critical business, go to market, and operational infrastructure needs.

Tasks and Responsibilities:
- Support the development and execution of enterprise-wide Cloud security program
- Define and manage security controls for a multi-cloud architecture
- Configure, maintain, deploy, and write rules in Cloud security tools (CSPM, CWPP, CNAPP)
- Design and implement 3rd party and cloud-native tooling to meet defined requirements
- Develop standard operating procedures and trainings for each technology
- Architect and continuously improve security technology stack, process and procedures, support model and cross-function interactions utilizing automation where possible
- Review and assess utilization of Cloud security tooling
- Promote and drive adoption of Cloud security tooling across the enterprise
- Partner across the Security Operations team to respond to cybersecurity incidents
- Develop and report Cloud security coverage metrics and remediation plans
- Define procedures to validate the effectiveness of the design, deployment, and management of security controls that aim to maintain confidentiality, integrity, and availability of Cloud networks and technology platforms
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Tags: Agile Automation Cloud CNAPP CSPM DDoS Endpoint security IDS Incident response Vulnerabilities Vulnerability management

Perks/benefits: Career development Transparency

Region: North America
Country: United States

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