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IT Security Specialist
LanceSoft Inc
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Hybrid
- 10 hours ago
- Vulnerability Management
- Windows
- Linux
- VMware
- PowerShell
- Bash
- Python
- Windows Server
- Ansible
- Terraform
- Change Management
10 hours ago
Job ID:494
Title:IT Security Specialist
Duration: 06 Months
Location: 1200 North Telegraph Road, Pontiac, MI – 48341
Position: Hybrid (2days onsite per week)
Pay Range: $55.00 to $65.00 negotiable.
Job Description: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.
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.
IT Security Specialist · LanceSoft Inc