IT & Security Specialist

People Data Labs; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock

Competitive salary

Unlimited PTO

Medical/dental/vision insurance

401(k)

Wellness stipends

Remote work flexibility

Job summary

People Data Labs is seeking an IT & Security Specialist to support security, compliance, tools administration, and helpdesk needs in a fully remote environment. You’ll work closely with our IT & Security Engineer, report to the VP of Finance & Operations, and help scale secure, compliant systems across the company.

The ideal candidate has experience on an IT/security team for a remote company, values building repeatable processes, and can balance automation with the human touch to keep coworkers

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of hands-on IT, Security, or Technical Operations experience.
• 3+ years 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 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).

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

Skills

IT Operations

Security

Remote work

Vendor management

Project management

Authentication

Disaster recovery

Written communication

Verbal communication

Data delivery methods

AWS security

Okta

Vanta

Python scripting

Bash scripting

Tools

Okta

Pulumi

Terraform

Datadog

Tailscale

SentinelOne

1Password

Job description

IT & Security Specialist

Location: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Location Type: Remote
Department: Product & Engineering

Overview

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!