Logging and Analytics Operations Specialist (US) - Washington DC, Mountain View, LA, New York

TikTok

Washington, DC

Why you should apply for a job with TikTok:

Employee well-being is supported via hybrid work, short-term counseling through our EAP and a premium subscription to Headspace.
We embrace diversity across all dimensions and provide employees with 9 employee resource groups globally, including our WOMEN ERG.
Comprehensive parental leave policy as well as fertility treatment through healthcare providers with a $20,000 lifetime maximum.

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Position summary

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. Our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok has global offices, including Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Mumbai, Singapore, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo. Our Global Security function provides services to TikTok's US market using four principles that guide our strategic and tactical operations. First, we champion trust and transparency, leading the charge in organizational transparency and execution of security and privacy capabilities that drive customer trust. Second, we are a business catalyst and enabler, embodying the DNA of technical innovation. Third, we drive risk-informed and empowered decision-making, giving our business leaders the information needed to make key decisions. Finally, we proactively identify and reduce risk while enabling innovative product development – to consistently build sustainable world-class and trusted security capabilities. You will be a part of the Security Operations team responsible for Enterprise Defense Operations and Platform Management, Hosting Platform Defense Operations, and Global Security Technology Operations. 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. 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 servicability 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. 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 platforms Qualifications • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills • 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 • Ability to communicate technical concepts to a broad range of technical and non-technical staff • Strong understanding of: • Interpretation of numeric data and statistical principles • Industry standard frameworks • Linux, MacOS, and Windows internals • Operating and maintaining logging and analytics tools across various platforms Minimum Qualifications: • Bachelors’ Degree or industry equivalent work experience in cybersecurity, international security architecture, and/or engineering in a converged security program • 3+ years applicable experience • High degree of integrity and trustworthiness and the ability to lead and inspire change • Demonstrate ability to quickly assimilate to new knowledge and remain current on new developments in cybersecurity capabilities and industry knowledge • In-depth experience in the following: • SIEM (i.e. Splunk) Preferred Qualifications: • CISSP, SSCP, CAP, CCSP, CISM, CSX-P or applicable experience in the Information Security field • Experience using one or more programming/scripting languages (e.g., Python, Go, Java, etc.) • Experience administering and developing playbooksSOAR (e.g., XSOAR, Demisto, Phantom, Siemplify, etc.) • Familiarity with source code management tools (e.g., Github, Bitbucket) • Familiarity with securing data across SaaS and IaaS cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud Platform) TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We believe individuals shouldn't be disadvantaged because of their background or identity, but instead should be considered based on their strengths and experience. We are passionate about this and hope you are too. TikTok is committed to providing reasonable accommodations during our recruitment process. If you need assistance or accommodation, please reach out to us at [email protected]

What are TikTok perks and benefits

Lactation facilities

Fertility

Unconscious bias training

Networking

Succession planning

Diversity recruiting

Diversity performance

Short term disability

Paid paternity

Paid maternity

Paid adoptive

About the company

TikTok

Industry: Technology: Consumer Internet

As the leading destination for short-form mobile video, our platform helps people around the world become a part of a global community. In a world that feels more divided than ever, we are here to inspire creativity and bring joy. We do this by embracing change, thriving in ambiguity, and always looking for solutions.

Why you should apply for a job with TikTok:

Employee well-being is supported via hybrid work, short-term counseling through our EAP and a premium subscription to Headspace.
We embrace diversity across all dimensions and provide employees with 9 employee resource groups globally, including our WOMEN ERG.
Comprehensive parental leave policy as well as fertility treatment through healthcare providers with a $20,000 lifetime maximum.