Information Security Specialist

Marmon Holdings, Inc. • Carol Stream, IL

23d • $80,000 - $120,000 • Remote

About The Position

The Information Security Specialist supports the organization’s security program by helping operate, maintain, and mature security controls across infrastructure, cloud environments, identities, applications, and governance processes. This role works closely with global IT, security, and software engineering teams to ensure security requirements are consistently implemented, monitored, and improved. The ideal candidate has broad security exposure, strong operational discipline, and an interest in improving how security is embedded into day‑to‑day technology operations and new product development.

Requirements

• 3–6 years of experience in information security, IT operations, or risk-related roles
• Exposure across multiple security areas (security operations, access management, governance, or risk)
• Basic understanding of application security concepts and how software is built and deployed
• Strong organizational, documentation, and follow‑up skills
• Ability to work effectively with distributed teams across regions

Nice To Haves

• Experience with endpoint security, vulnerability management, or SIEM tooling
• Familiarity with security frameworks or control-based programs (SOC 2, ISO, NIST, CIS)
• Experience working alongside software engineers or platform teams
• Exposure to security automation, scripting, or workflow tools
• Exposure and understanding of AI and LLM
• Curiosity and initiative to identify improvements beyond assigned tasks

Responsibilities

• Support day‑to‑day execution of security controls across endpoints, servers, identities, applications, and cloud platforms
• Track adherence to security requirements and follow up on gaps with regional teams
• Maintain accurate records, evidence, and reporting related to security control coverage
• Ensure security tasks and remediation actions are progressing and documented
• Support security operations within Azure and AWS environments, including visibility into workloads and configurations
• Assist with monitoring security tooling and baseline controls for cloud-hosted systems
• Help validate security requirements for new cloud resources and services
• Identify configuration or control gaps and escalate or coordinate remediation
• Assist with vulnerability tracking, triage, and remediation coordination
• Help ensure systems that cannot meet security standards have documented and approved risk exceptions
• Maintain inventories of vulnerabilities, exceptions, and associated remediation or compensating controls
• Support periodic reviews to ensure risk records remain accurate and current
• Participate in access reviews, entitlement validations, and privilege attestations
• Track review outcomes and remediation activities
• Support documentation and evidence related to access management controls
• Promote least‑privilege and appropriate access practices through consistent execution
• Work with software engineers and product teams during design and implementation of new systems
• Assist with security reviews for applications, SaaS tools, and internal services
• Help validate security considerations such as authentication, authorization, data protection, and logging
• Support integration of security requirements into development and deployment workflows
• Assist in operationalizing security tools that are newly implemented or not yet fully adopted
• Help define and document workflows, procedures, and ownership for security technologies
• Identify opportunities to improve existing automations or reduce manual effort
• Contribute ideas and support efforts to modernize and scale security operations
• Identify gaps, inefficiencies, or inconsistencies across security processes and controls
• Assist with developing practical, risk‑based plans to address identified gaps
• Track progress and support implementation of improvement initiatives
• Help establish metrics and reporting to measure control effectiveness

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision, and Prescription Drug insurance plans
• Access to a Health Advocate who is an expert in Marmon’s health plan and can help you select the best health benefits for you and your family
• Tax advantaged spending accounts for health and dependent care expenses
• Wellness programs and resources including Telehealth, Mental Health, Fitness, and Family Planning
• Generous paid time off for personal use, holidays, and parental leave
• Company-sponsored life insurance
• 401(k) with fully vested company match; Marmon may also make an additional annual discretionary contribution to your account, whether or not you contribute on your own
• Financial and retirement advising

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed