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.