Tanium Tech SME

Summary: The Tanium Tech SME role involves addressing critical capability gaps in the organization's Tanium EDR and telemetry estate to enhance cyber threat prevention, detection, response, and containment. The position requires leading remediation efforts, deploying Tanium solutions, and integrating data into detection tools. This role is essential due to the current lack of internal Tanium resources and is focused on delivering the 2026 CEP Book of Work. The contract is for an initial duration of 9 months and is classified as inside IR35.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead remediation of an agreed list of known Tanium EDR gaps across the estate.
• Activate, configure, and deploy Tanium Reactions aligned to containment and detection requirements.
• Support Tanium device discovery, improving asset visibility across hardware, software and telemetry.
• Integrate device data, software data, and extended telemetry into SIEM and wider detection tooling.
• Develop and implement CI/CD pipelines for Detection Engineering content deployed through Tanium.
• Conduct Tanium testing and validation cycles, including rollback procedures to support CI/CD and containment operations.
• Collaborate with Detection Engineering, Endpoint, and C2E workstreams to ensure readiness for platform go-live.
• Provide expert input into Tanium architecture, enhancements, integrations, and operational uplift.
• Produce documentation, operational runbooks, and configuration standards for long-term sustainability.

Key Skills:

• Proven expertise configuring, deploying, and operating the Tanium platform at enterprise scale.
• Strong experience in Tanium modules including: Tanium Threat Response, Tanium Discover / Asset, Tanium Deploy, Tanium Signals & Reactions.
• Deep knowledge of endpoint telemetry, EDR technologies, and cyber threat detection.
• Hands on CI/CD experience, including automated content build, testing, and rollback.
• Experience integrating Tanium data into SIEM platforms and detection pipelines.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex endpoint, sensor, and configuration issues.
• Strong communication and documentation skills, with ability to influence multiple workstreams.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: Cheshire East

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: undetermined

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT