Cyber Security Consultant: Tanium, Security, SC Clearance

Cyber Security Consultant: Tanium, Security, SC Clearance

Start Date: ASAP

Duration: 60 Days

Total Daily Earnings: Competitive (includes rolled up holiday)

Employer NI: Paid by the client

IR35 Status: Inside IR35

Location: London

Note: SC Clearance is highly desirable

Essential experience and skills:: Candidates must demonstrate:

• Significant hands-on experience designing, implementing, configuring or operating Tanium in complex enterprise environments.
• Proven delivery experience across multiple Tanium modules rather than purely theoretical or sales-level knowledge.
• Strong understanding of endpoint management, endpoint security and enterprise IT operations.
• Practical experience with Tanium platform architecture, endpoint communications, Client Management, content distribution, targeting, RBAC, personas and troubleshooting.

• Tanium Asset
• Tanium Discover
• Tanium Patch
• Tanium Deploy
• Tanium Comply and Risk
• Tanium Enforce
• Tanium Performance
• Tanium Provision
• Tanium Investigate
• Tanium Connect
• Tanium Reporting
• Experience deploying and validating Tanium Clients across Windows and Linux estates.
• Good understanding of Windows endpoint administration, services, registry, MSI and executable installation behaviour, permissions, file systems, scheduled tasks, certificates and software-detection methods.
• Experience designing or operating enterprise patch-management and software-distribution processes.
• Experience troubleshooting endpoint connectivity, Firewall, Proxy, DNS, certificate and segmented-network issues.
• Strong understanding of cyber-security fundamentals, including vulnerability management, configuration compliance, attack-surface reduction, secure administration and least privilege.
• Experience producing customer-facing designs, implementation plans, operating procedures and technical reports.

• Tanium Certified Administrator - TCA or other advanced Tanium technical certification.
• Experience with both Tanium Cloud and Tanium on-premises architecture.
• Experience migrating customers from SCCM/Microsoft Configuration Manager, Ivanti DSM, ManageEngine Endpoint Central or comparable tooling.
• Advanced PowerShell Scripting and automation experience.
• Experience using REST APIs and JSON-based configuration or deployment models.
• Experience creating, reviewing or migrating enterprise software packages.
• Knowledge of Windows Installer technology, application detection, dependencies, return codes, reboot handling and rollback.
• Experience designing patch rings, maintenance windows, deployment waves and exception processes for enterprise server and Workstation estates.
• Experience with vulnerability-management and compliance frameworks such as CIS, NIST or DISA STIG.
• Experience integrating Tanium with ServiceNow, ITSM, CMDB, SIEM, identity or reporting platforms.
• Experience working in operational technology, manufacturing, healthcare, public-sector, defence or other highly controlled environments.
• Understanding of virtualisation, VDI, server-build and OS-provisioning processes.
• Experience with Microsoft technologies such as Active Directory, Entra ID, Intune, Defender and Azure.
• Experience working with Linux platforms.
• Familiarity with enterprise network segmentation, proxies, Firewalls, load balancing and certificate-based communications.
• German-language capability would be beneficial for some customer engagements but is not mandatory.
• Experience mentoring engineers or providing technical assurance across parallel delivery workstreams.
• Broader consulting experience covering current-state assessment, migration design, roadmap development, stakeholder management and operational handover.

• Experience producing customer-facing designs, implementation plans, operating procedures and technical reports.
• Ability to lead technical workshops and explain complex technical subjects to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capability.
• Ability to work independently, manage competing priorities and deliver to agreed outcomes with limited supervision.
• Professional written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Experience working in controlled enterprise environments with formal change, testing, evidence and acceptance requirements.