IT Security Specialist

Location: Hybrid; two in-office days per week. 
Position Type: Contract

Must Have Skills:

• Experience administering Windows Server and Linux infrastructure.
• Knowledge of networking, storage, identity, access management, and endpoint systems.
• Experience with vulnerability scanning, risk prioritization, remediation tracking, and patch compliance.
• Ability to implement security baselines, access controls, and system hardening standards.
• Experience with VMware vSphere, virtual machines, and cloud platforms.
• Proficiency with endpoint management and asset discovery tools.
• Experience with PowerShell, Bash, Python, Ansible, and Terraform for automation.
• Strong troubleshooting, incident management, and change management skills.
• Strong documentation, reporting, and cross-team collaboration skills.
  Desired Skills:
• Experience with Tanium or similar endpoint security and management platforms.
• Experience securing and optimizing hybrid infrastructure across on-premises, virtualized, and cloud environments.
  Job Responsibilities:
• Administer, secure, maintain, and optimize Windows, Linux, VMware, and cloud infrastructure.
• Implement and maintain security baselines, access controls, and hardening standards.
• Identify, prioritize, track, and remediate vulnerabilities across servers, virtual machines, and cloud resources.
• Validate remediation results and coordinate resolution timelines with relevant teams.
• Coordinate operating system and infrastructure patching, validate deployments, and maintain compliance while minimizing disruption.
• Assess configurations against security standards, address weaknesses, and support audits and compliance reporting.
• Secure and maintain VMware environments, virtual machines, cloud services, configurations, and access controls.
• Support asset discovery, endpoint management, vulnerability assessment, patching, and remediation using security management tools.
• Develop scripts and workflows to automate patching, remediation, security validation, and reporting.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure, configuration, patching, and security issues.
• Maintain incident and change records in the IT service management system.
• Document configurations, security standards, patching processes, and remediation procedures.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, security, and other teams to support reliable and secure operations.
• Work County business hours, attend the office two days per week, and support occasional after-hours maintenance, patching, and security remediation; flex time is optional.