Title: IT Security Specialist/ Systems Administrator.
Location: Pontiac, MI.
Duration: 6 Months Contract. (Hybrid| 2 days per week in office)
Job Description:
We are seeking a 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.
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.
Thank you for your time, and I look forward to receiving your reply today.
