Hybrid IT Security Specialist - Cloud, VMware & Patching

Wolverine Staffing; Pontiac (MI); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Wolverine Staffing is seeking an IT Security Specialist to oversee security across on‑premises, virtualization, and cloud environments in a hybrid enterprise. The role emphasizes vulnerability management, remediation, patching, and compliance.

You will administer Windows, Linux, VMware, and cloud infrastructure; implement security baselines and access controls; coordinate remediation timelines; perform vulnerability scanning and patching; and create automation scripts with PowerShell, Bash, or

Qualifications

• 5+ years of infrastructure security experience in hybrid/cloud environments.
• Experience with vulnerability management, remediation, and patch cycles.
• Knowledge of security baselines, access controls, and hardening standards.
• Experience supporting audits and compliance reporting.

Responsibilities

• Administer Windows, Linux, VMware, and cloud infrastructure.
• Implement security baselines, access controls, and hardening standards.
• Identify, prioritize, track, and remediate vulnerabilities across servers, VMs, and cloud resources.
• Coordinate OS and infrastructure patching, validate deployments, maintain compliance, and minimize disruption.
• Assess configurations against security standards, correct weaknesses, and support audits and compliance reporting.
• Secure and maintain VMware, virtual machines, cloud services, configurations, and access controls across hybrid environments.
• Support asset discovery, endpoint management, vulnerability assessment, patching, and remediation using Tanium or similar platforms.
• Develop PowerShell, Bash, or Python scripts and workflows to automate patching, remediation, security validation, and reporting.
• Resolve infrastructure, configuration, patching, and security issues; maintain incident and change records in the ITSM system.
• Document configurations, security standards, patching, and remediation procedures.

Skills

Vulnerability management

Patching coordination

Security compliance

Automation & scripting

Documentation & reporting

Tools

Tanium

PowerShell

Bash

Python

Ansible

Terraform

VMware

Job description

Wolverine Staffing is seeking an IT Security Specialist to oversee security across on‑premises, virtualization, and cloud environments in a hybrid enterprise. The role emphasizes vulnerability management, remediation, patching, and compliance.

You will administer Windows, Linux, VMware, and cloud infrastructure; implement security baselines and access controls; coordinate remediation timelines; perform vulnerability scanning and patching; and create automation scripts with PowerShell, Bash, or