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Enterprise Services Engineer

Roles & Responsibilities

  • Security Clearance: NV1 or higher
  • BA/BS or equivalent experience; 5+ years IT/Consulting and 5+ years Systems Administration/Engineering
  • Hands-on Tanium experience is a major plus; strong troubleshooting skills; ability to articulate and communicate
  • Experience in or with federal government agencies; broad technical knowledge across multiple domains (e.g., Endpoint Security, Incident response, Systems Administration) and scripting (Python, PowerShell, Bash)

Requirements:

  • Operationalise, administer and maintain the Tanium Platform to solve complex technical issues (independently or with teammates)
  • Identify opportunities for customers to get greater value from the Tanium platform
  • Solve customer support cases and conduct regular health-checks on assigned accounts, collaborating with the account team on strategic activities
  • Provide technical direction to customer IT support staff and document best practices and Play Book entries

Job description

The Basics:

At Tanium, our Enterprise Services Engineers (ESEs) fulfill a vital role in our organisation by serving Tanium's customers as hands-on-keyboard experts for both remote and on-site engagements. You will operate in a highly team-based environment with Solution Engineers, fellow ESE’s, Customer Success Managers, and Sales Account Managers. ESEs contribute to each customers' success by operating and maintaining the Tanium platform and it's modules to achieve customer-specific Operations, Risk, Compliance, Asset, and Security-focused outcomes, either remotely or on on-site with the customer. You’ll have continuous opportunities and challenges which will require you to apply your best technical chops in large enterprise environments, all leveraging the power of Tanium.

This role will be required to provide technical support for federal government customers and is primarily Canberra based.

What You’ll Do:

  • Work closely with our customers to;
    • Operationalise, administer and maintain the Tanium Platform to solve complex technical issues independently or with the help of teammates
    • Identify opportunities for our customers to get greater value from the Tanium platform
    • Consistently and cogently address our customers’ needs through astute verbal and written communication skills
    • Solve customer support cases
    • Conduct regular health-checks on assigned accounts & work with account team on strategic customer activities
    • Contribute to and track activity, after action, root cause and daily status reports
    • Document best practices and Play Book entries
    • Work closely with SE’s and CSMs on improving Tanium operational status within key accounts
    • Provide technical direction to customer IT support staff

We’re Looking For:

  • Security Clearance: NV1 or higher
  • Education
    • BA/BS or equivalent experience required
  • Experience
    • 5+ years of experience in IT/Consulting
    • 5+ years of experience in Systems Administration/Engineering
    • Hands-on Tanium experience a major plus
    • Strong troubleshooting skills
    • Ability to articulate and communicate
    • Working in or with federal government agencies a plus
    • Broad knowledge across several technical domains, coupled with deep knowledge in one or more of the following:
      • Endpoint Security
      • Endpoint Support/Troubleshooting
      • Incident response
      • Systems Management
      • Systems Administration
      • Software Engineering
      • Utility Scripting (e.g. Bash, PowerShell, VBScript, Python, etc.)
    • Demonstrated critical thinking skills
    • Ability to break a problem down into manageable, ordered piece parts
    • Ability to convey problem statement and plan of attack to others

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.   

 

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