IT Security Specialist

IT Security Specialist

• Systems Administrator – Security Responsible for administering, securing, maintaining, and optimizing enterprise infrastructure across on-premises, virtualized, hybrid, and cloud environments.
• 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.

Key Responsibilities Infrastructure Security:

• Administer Windows, Linux, VMware, and cloud infrastructure.
• Implement security baselines, access controls, and hardening standards.
• Vulnerability Management:
• Identify, prioritize, track, and remediate vulnerabilities across servers, virtual machines, and cloud resources.
• Validate fixes and coordinate remediation timelines.
• Patching:
• Coordinate OS and infrastructure patching, validate deployments, maintain compliance, and minimize disruption.
• Security & Compliance:
• Assess configurations against security standards, correct weaknesses, and support audits and compliance reporting.
• Cloud & Virtualization:
• Secure and maintain VMware, virtual machines, cloud services, configurations, and access controls across hybrid environments.
• Security Tools:
• Support asset discovery, endpoint management, vulnerability assessment, patching, and remediation using Tanium or similar platforms.
• Automation:
• Develop PowerShell, Bash, or Python scripts and workflows to automate patching, remediation, security validation, and reporting.
• Troubleshooting:
• Resolve infrastructure, configuration, patching, and security issues.
• Maintain incident and change records in the IT service management system.
• Documentation & Collaboration:
• Document configurations, security standards, patching, and remediation procedures.
• Work Schedule:
• County business hours required; flex time optional.
• Occasional after-hours work for maintenance, patching, and security remediation.
• Hybrid position requiring two in-office days per week.
• Experience Level: 5 years
• Duration: Long-Term Contract
• Environment:
• Works in a hybrid enterprise environment spanning on-premises, virtualization, and cloud infrastructure, focusing on vulnerability management, security, hardening, and remediation.
• Required Experience: Infrastructure: Windows Server, Linux, troubleshooting, access management, storage, networking, identity, and endpoint systems.
• Security: Vulnerability scanning, remediation tracking, patching, risk prioritization, and configuration compliance.
• Virtualization/Cloud: VMware vSphere, virtual machines, and cloud platforms.
• Tools/Automation: Endpoint management, asset discovery, Tanium or similar tools, PowerShell, Bash, Python, Ansible, and Terraform.
• Operations: Incident/change management, documentation, reporting, and cross-team collaboration.