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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 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 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

Minimum Qualifications:
• Bachelors' Degree or industry equivalent work experience in cybersecurity, international security architecture, and/or engineering in a converged security program
• 2+ 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:
• Asset management
• Change management
• Logging, monitoring, and security event management
• Database management and administration

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)
• 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 are passionate about this and hope you are too.

TikTok is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://shorturl.at/ktJP6

This role requires the ability to work with and support systems designed to protect sensitive data and information. As such, this role will be subject to strict national security-related screening.

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $118800 - $196000 annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;

2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and

3. Exercising sound judgment.