Responsibilities
The mission of TikTok's Global Security Organization is to build and earn trust by reducing risk and securing our businesses and products. Also known as "GSO", this team is the foundation of our efforts to keep TikTok safe, secure, and operating at scale for over 1 billion people around the world. We work to ensure that the TikTok platform is safe and secure, that our users' experience and their data remains safe from external or internal threats, and that we comply with global regulations wherever TikTok operates.
Trust is one of TikTok's biggest initiatives, and security is integral to our success. In whatever ways users interact with us - whether they're watching videos on their For You page, interacting with a Live video, or buying products on TikTok Shop - GSO protects their data and privacy, so they can have a secure and trustworthy experience.
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The Control and Validation team's responsibilities include designing and implementing IT security solutions that address the organization's needs, assessing risks and vulnerabilities, and developing strategies to mitigate them, validation of security technical controls. This role will be responsible for defining enterprise security technical controls and then building technical validations within the TikTok environments to ensure compliance. By implementing the validation of these enterprise security controls, this role will work with GSO GRC and cross functional teams to build a measurable and repeatable process in order to continuously uplift the security posture of our environment.
Responsibilities
- Define measurable technical security controls for the enterprise security environment based on common global frameworks. The enterprise security environment includes employee laptops, email technologies, and common office building computing resources such as conference room tech, servers, and IoT devices.
- Design and implement technical validations to technical security controls in the enterprise security environment using existing infrastructure and utilities, or supplementing with additional technologies as required.
- Work with cross functional teams to identify control gaps and assist those teams with plans for remediation.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Experience with automated security testing and/or security automation frameworks and tools (e.g., Selenium, Ansible, Jenkins, Chef, Puppet) is a plus.
- Strong product or development experience in enterprise security tools (firewalls, proxies, security logging solutions, WAF, HIDS, EDR, etc)
- Strong understanding of typical GRC security policies, and prior experience in breaking down policies to technical controls.
- Proficiency in at least one programming languages: Python, Java, Go, Bash, C/C++, shell; Having excellent debugging skills.
- Good knowledge of BAS(Breach As a Service) like frameworks and experience using a BAS solution in a large environment.
- While the focus is enterprise security related domains, a broad knowledge of all security domains is a plus.
- Excellent team-working skills are needed. Previous successful working experience through different time zones is a plus.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or Cybersecurity.