What are the responsibilities and job description for the Security Specialist, Endpoint and Email Controls Validation position at TikTok?
Responsibilities
About TikTok
TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and its offices include New York, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.
Why Join Us
Creation is the core of TikTok's purpose. Our products are built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make our innovations possible. Together, we inspire creativity and enrich life - a mission we aim towards achieving every day. To us, every challenge, no matter how ambiguous, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always. At TikTok, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact-for ourselves, our company, and the users we serve. Join us.
The Global Security Organization provides industry-leading cyber-security and business protection services to TikTok globally. Our organization employs four principles that guide our strategic and tactical operations. Firstly, we Champion Transparency & Trust by leading the charge in organizational transparency, prioritizing customer trust, and placing user needs first. Secondly, we aim to maintain Best in Class Global Security by proactively identifying and reducing risks while enabling innovative product development. We constantly work towards a sustainable world-class security capability. Thirdly, we strive to be a Business Catalyst & Enabler by embodying the DNA of technical innovation and ensuring our Global Security operations are fast and agile. Finally, we Drive Empowered & Risk-Informed Decision Making by providing our leaders with the necessary information to make agile decisions based on risk. In order to enhance collaboration and cross-functional partnerships, our organization follows a hybrid work schedule that requires employees to work in the office 3 days a week, as directed by their manager. We regularly review our hybrid work model, and the specific requirements may change at any time.
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.
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/cdpT2
Job Information
【For Pay Transparency】 Compensation Description (Annually) - Washington, DC
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is 106920 - 176400 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.
About TikTok
TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and its offices include New York, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.
Why Join Us
Creation is the core of TikTok's purpose. Our products are built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make our innovations possible. Together, we inspire creativity and enrich life - a mission we aim towards achieving every day. To us, every challenge, no matter how ambiguous, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always. At TikTok, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact-for ourselves, our company, and the users we serve. Join us.
The Global Security Organization provides industry-leading cyber-security and business protection services to TikTok globally. Our organization employs four principles that guide our strategic and tactical operations. Firstly, we Champion Transparency & Trust by leading the charge in organizational transparency, prioritizing customer trust, and placing user needs first. Secondly, we aim to maintain Best in Class Global Security by proactively identifying and reducing risks while enabling innovative product development. We constantly work towards a sustainable world-class security capability. Thirdly, we strive to be a Business Catalyst & Enabler by embodying the DNA of technical innovation and ensuring our Global Security operations are fast and agile. Finally, we Drive Empowered & Risk-Informed Decision Making by providing our leaders with the necessary information to make agile decisions based on risk. In order to enhance collaboration and cross-functional partnerships, our organization follows a hybrid work schedule that requires employees to work in the office 3 days a week, as directed by their manager. We regularly review our hybrid work model, and the specific requirements may change at any time.
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.
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/cdpT2
Job Information
【For Pay Transparency】 Compensation Description (Annually) - Washington, DC
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is 106920 - 176400 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.
Salary : $106,920 - $176,400
