Information Technology Security Specialist

Akkodis is seeking an Information Technology Security Specialist for a Contract job with a client in Pontiac, MI .

Rate Range: $50/hour to $55/hour; The rate may be negotiable based on experience, education, geographic location, and other factors.

Description:

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.

If you are interested in this role, then please click APPLY NOW . For other opportunities available at Akkodis , or any questions, feel free to contact me at [email protected]

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

Benefit offerings available for our associates include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, additional voluntary benefits, an EAP program, commuter benefits, and a 401K plan. Our benefit offerings provide employees the flexibility to choose the type of coverage that meets their individual needs. In addition, our associates may be eligible for paid leave including Paid Sick Leave or any other paid leave required by Federal, State, or local law, as well as Holiday pay where applicable. Disclaimer: These benefit offerings do not apply to client-recruited jobs and jobs that are direct hires to a client.

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The Company will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with federal, state, and local laws and/or security clearance requirements, including, as applicable:

· The California Fair Chance Act

· Los Angeles City Fair Chance Ordinance

· Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers

· San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance