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About TikTok
TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video.
About USDS
U.S. Data Security (“USDS”) is a standalone entity of TikTok in the U.S. Our focus is on providing oversight and protection of the TikTok platform and user data in the U.S.
About the Role
TikTok Offensive Security Operation team is seeking a Technical Security Controls Validation specialist. This role is highly technical and solution focused. The individual contributor (IC) will utilize their deep knowledge and skills in offensive and defensive disciplines to assess risks and the effectiveness of protective, detective, and responsive security controls against adversarial tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) within the TikTok USDS environment. This requires an IC who can work cross-functionally with security monitoring and response teams, administrators, users, and leadership to help them understand the risks and recommend actionable solutions.
To succeed in this role, the candidate must have strong skills in penetration testing or red teaming as well as a deep understanding of threat detection and incident response, threat detection engineering, and/or DevSecOps. The candidate should possess breadth and depth of knowledge in secure coding principles, security architecture, hardening of operating systems, identity and access management, networking protocols, firewalls, databases and middleware applications, threat hunting, forensics, scripting and programming.
Responsibilities:
- Execute offensive test cases against controls in the environment: 1) Determine if the control presents risk to the environment, 2) determine its effectiveness against offensive test cases, and 3) provide reasonable and actionable recommendations to resolve risks and improve the controls effectiveness.
- Perform threat modeling against systems and controls to understand underlying architecture and focus on risky areas, develop security testing requirements and use-cases, identify potential threats/vulnerabilities/misconfigurations, quantify criticality to help prioritize and plan for remediation methods.
- Utilize attacker tools, tactics, and procedures to perform analysis and identify vulnerabilities, mis-configurations, and gaps in protective, detective, and responsive security controls.
- After an assessment, consult and provide guidance on recommending solutions around gaps in security controls and control enhancements.
- Synthesize and report findings, develop remediation recommendations, and track implementation through to completion.
- Look for automation opportunities to automate testing and monitoring efficiency of controls on an ongoing basis.
- Operate breach & attack simulation tools to assess the effectiveness of security controls.
D&I Statement
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Accommodation Statement
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