IT & Security Specialist

People Data Labs; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock

Competitive Salaries

Unlimited paid time off

Medical, dental, & vision insurance

401(k)

Health, fitness, and office stipends

Remote work flexibility

Job summary

People Data Labs is seeking an IT and Security Specialist to help manage security, compliance, tooling administration, and helpdesk support for a fully remote workforce. You will partner with the IT & Security Engineer and report to the VP of Finance & Operations.

The role emphasizes building scalable security and compliance processes, working closely with product and engineering on security initiatives, and maintaining strong vendor relationships while operating autonomously.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of hands-on experience in an IT, Security, or Technical Operations role.
• 3+ years of experience working in a fully remote environment.
• Experience executing IT project roadmaps, vendor relationships, and enterprise system migrations or rollouts.
• Working knowledge of enterprise identity and access management, authentication standards, and disaster recovery planning.
• Strong organizational and project management skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to thrive with autonomy and ownership.
• Experience working with data via multiple delivery methods.
• AWS security (IAM, CloudTrail, Inspector, Organizations + SCP).
• SSO + identity provider (preferably Okta).
• Compliance automation (e.g., Vanta).
• Basic scripting (e.g., Python, Bash).

Responsibilities

• Collaborate on IT & Security project roadmap, helpdesk workflows, and prioritization across migrations and security enhancements.
• Build and maintain structured, automated, audit-ready security and compliance processes and protocols.
• Work with product and engineering on shared security initiatives and clear project plans for complex changes.
• Administer and strengthen authentication, access management standards, and disaster recovery processes.
• Facilitate vendor relationships, evaluations, contracts, and renewals to manage tools spend.
• Provide hands-on helpdesk and endpoint support for a fully remote team, including device setup and security tooling.

Skills

IT Security

Remote Work

Project Management

Vendor Management

Helpdesk Support

Scripting

AWS Security

Okta SSO

Disaster Recovery

Automation

Tools

Datadog

Pulumi

Terraform

1Password

Tailscale

SentinelOne

Okta

Job description

People Data Labs is the trusted provider of workforce data. We do the heavy lifting of data collection and standardization to enable companies to build and scale innovative, compliant data solutions.

As an IT and Security Specialist at PDL, you’ll help with security, compliance, tools administration, helpdesk support, and other information technology needs. You’ll work closely with our IT & Security Engineer, report to the VP of Finance & Operations, and partner closely with different departments across the company.

We are an intentionally smaller data company that believes revenue can scale without significant headcount (and therefore cost) increases. We are both fully profitable and growing, and we are looking for the next person to play a role in the connective tissue that keeps everyone at PDL successful and safe.

We believe you can take security and compliance seriously while still having a fun and appropriately unhinged remote workplace. The ideal candidate for this role has worked on an IT and/or security team for a fully remote environment, and values building systems and processes that make their coworkers’ lives easier.

We believe AI tools and workflows can be leveraged in the right places, but we are not looking for someone focused on implementing AI for the sake of implementing AI. Our people are our secret sauce, both with our customers and behind the scenes. We don't need AI to replace the human touch.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Collaborate on the IT & Security project roadmap, helpdesk workflows, and prioritization process for cross-functional initiatives such as migrations, system rollouts, and security enhancements
• Build and maintain a structured, automated, and audit-ready set of security and compliance processes, procedures, and protocols
• Work directly with product and engineering, and departmental stakeholders on shared security initiatives and clear project plans for complex technical changes
• Administer and strengthen the company-wide authentication, access management standards, and disaster recovery processes for critical systems
• Facilitate vendor relationships, evaluations, contracts, and renewals to ensure tools spend is carefully and thoughtfully managed
• Provide hands‑on helpdesk and endpoint support for a fully remote team, including device setup, security tooling, and troubleshooting

Required Skills & Experience

• 3-5 years of hands‑on experience in an IT, Security, or Technical Operations role
• 3+ years of experience working in a fully remote environment
• Experience executing IT project roadmaps, vendor relationships, and enterprise system migrations or rollouts
• Working knowledge of enterprise identity and access management, authentication standards, and disaster recovery planning
• Strong organizational and project management skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to thrive with a great deal of autonomy and ownership in your role
• Experience working with data via multiple delivery methods
• AWS security (IAM, CloudTrail, Inspector, Organizations + SCP)
• SSO + identity provider (preferably Okta)
• Compliance automation (e.g., Vanta)
• Basic scripting (e.g., Python, Bash)

Desired Skills & Experience

• Previous experience at a data company is not required but is always appreciated
• Remote security tooling (Tailscale, SentinelOne, 1Password)
• Exposure to infrastructure‑as‑code (e.g., Pulumi, Terraform)
• Monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Datadog)

Salary: $120,000 - $140,000

Benefits

• Stock
• Competitive Salaries
• Unlimited paid time off
• Medical, dental, & vision insurance
• 401(k)
• Health, fitness, and office stipends
• The permanent ability to work wherever and however you want

Why People Data Labs?

Great People make great teams. It is as simple and elegant as that. We believe in building highly functional, energetic, and engaging teams to serve our customers. People, Customers, Shareholders, in that order, sets us up for success and delivering on our promises.

If all of that sounds good to you, we can’t wait to hear from you and build something amazing together! Visit our LinkedIn page for updates, and check out our latest company kickoff video to get a taste of our company culture:Personal Privacy Policy for California Residentspolicies?name=applicant-privacy-policy