Software Engineering Entry Level (Security & Privacy) - USDS

Team Intro
The Security Operations team's primary focus is management of security and defense platforms, technologies, tools, and services supporting security controls across TikTok's environments. As a Logging and Analytics Platform Operations Specialist, you will be responsible for supporting the Logging and Analytics Platform Operations Lead and cross functional partners in deploying, integrating, and managing, technologies to support the security and protection of data in accordance with relevant geographical regulations, contractual commitments, and confidentiality requirements.

In your capacity as a key contributor within Security Operations, you are part of a team that manages the design, engineering, and deployment of tools and technologies to monitor our global infrastructure footprint to validate data inventory, access and protection, and security of our vast infrastructure of data center, SaaS, and IaaS. This will include serviceability and continuing improvement of technology platforms, technologies, and services as well as oversight to your team as they manage operational configuration updates to security tools and validate effectiveness. Further, you and your team will create a strategy for the control environment to enable and protect TikTok's infrastructure, technologies, and services. This will entail understanding requirements, designing controls, and ultimately managing the on-going operation of those controls.

The candidate must be skilled in conducting technical analysis of security logs and business problems, as well as threats, incidents, investigations, workforce protection, 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.

In order to enhance collaboration and cross-functional partnerships, among other things, at this time, our organization follows a hybrid work schedule that requires employees to work in the office 3 days a week, or as directed by their manager/department. We regularly review our hybrid work model, and the specific requirements may change at any time.

Responsibilities:
• Determine requirements and deploy logging capabilities across applications, infrastructure, databases, and networks
• Develop strategy for ingestion and extraction of log data from various sources, including integrations with SIEM
• Define conditions and logic to identify unauthorized / inappropriate activities and indicators of compromise, including triage and escalation of suspected events
• Optimize and tune existing correlation rules and alerts to reduce false positives
• Develop and apply data models to event logs for advanced analytics
• Support root cause analysis, debugging, post-mortem analysis of cybersecurity incidents in partnership with other security functions
• Develop and report metrics on logging capabilities and trends based on analysis
• Perform analysis of logging and monitoring coverage and onboard new data sources
• Review and assess utilization of logging and monitoring tooling
• 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
• Define and execute (as needed) procedures to validate the effectiveness of the design, deployment, and management of security controls that aim to maintain confidentiality, integrity, and availability of enterprise data assets and technology platformsMinimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
- Excellent communication skills (verbal and written), ability to influence without authority
- Works well under pressure within time/budget constraints to solve problems, adjust quickly to shifting priorities, and make decisions with limited information. Ability to balance risks in ambiguous and complex situations
- Demonstrated teamwork and collaboration skills, in particular in leading or contributing to global and cross-functional teams. Highly motivated to contribute and grow within a complex area of emerging importance
- Interpretation of numeric data and statistical principles
- Linux, MacOS, and Windows internals
- Operating and maintaining logging and analytics tools across various platforms


Preferred Qualifications
• CISSP, SSCP, CAP, CCSP, CISM, CSX-P or applicable experience in the Information Security field
• Experience with microservice architecture (Message Queues, Function-as-a-Service, etc.)
• Experience using one or more programming/scripting languages (e.g., Python, Go, Java, etc.)
• Experience with Elastic Search or similar technologies
• Familiarity with source code management tools (e.g., Github, Gitlab) & securing data across SaaS and IaaS cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud Platform)