IT Security Specialist
About The Position
The IT Security Specialist is responsible for administering, securing, maintaining, and optimizing enterprise infrastructure across on-premises, virtualized, hybrid, and cloud environments. The role focuses on vulnerability management, remediation, patch compliance, and security across Windows, Linux, VMware, and cloud platforms. Experience with Tanium or similar tools is a plus. This is a hybrid position requiring two in-office days per week. County business hours are required, with optional flex time. Occasional after-hours work may be needed for maintenance, patching, and security remediation. The environment spans on-premises, virtualization, and cloud infrastructure, with a focus on vulnerability management, security, hardening, and remediation.
Requirements
- Experience with Windows Server and Linux.
- Experience troubleshooting infrastructure and managing access.
- Experience with storage, networking, identity, and endpoint systems.
- Experience with vulnerability scanning, remediation tracking, patching, risk prioritization, and configuration compliance.
- Experience with VMware vSphere and virtual machines.
- Experience with cloud platforms.
- Experience with endpoint management, asset discovery, and security tools.
- Experience with PowerShell, Bash, Python, Ansible, and Terraform.
- Experience with incident and change management, documentation, reporting, and cross-team collaboration.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Tanium or similar tools.
Responsibilities
- Administer Windows, Linux, VMware, and cloud infrastructure.
- Implement security baselines, access controls, and hardening standards.
- Identify, prioritize, track, and remediate vulnerabilities across servers, virtual machines, and cloud resources.
- Validate vulnerability fixes and coordinate remediation timelines.
- Coordinate operating system and infrastructure patching, validate deployments, maintain compliance, and minimize disruption.
- Assess configurations against security standards, correct weaknesses, and support audits and compliance reporting.
- Secure and maintain VMware, virtual machines, cloud services, configurations, and access controls across hybrid environments.
- Support asset discovery, endpoint management, vulnerability assessment, patching, and remediation using Tanium or similar platforms.
- Develop PowerShell, Bash, or Python scripts and workflows to automate patching, remediation, security validation, and reporting.
- Resolve infrastructure, configuration, patching, and security issues.
- Maintain incident and change records in the IT service management system.
- Document configurations, security standards, patching, and remediation procedures.
- Collaborate across teams.
Benefits
- Long-term stability, with multi-year opportunities and room to grow.
- Comprehensive health coverage.
- 401(k) program.
- Immediate Green Card processing support, if required.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
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