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IT Security Specialist - Hybrid - Pontaic, MI

Salary
$65–$75/hr
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United States
Work type
Hybrid
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Salary Range: $65.00 To $75.00 Hourly

Role: IT Security Specialist
Location: Pontiac, MI
Work Mode: Hybrid
Employment Type: Contract
Interview Mode: Only Video
  • 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.
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.

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