Security Specialist - Remote/Hybrid (Temp W-2)

Garden Life Dev; Goldsboro (NC); Hybrid; USD 47,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and welfare benefits

Equal opportunity employer

Job summary

Garden Life Development, LLC is seeking a Security Specialist for a full-time temporary assignment (W-2) in North Carolina. The role focuses on monitoring security tools, running vulnerability scans, supporting incident response, and reviewing access controls to ensure robust protection.

As part of the team, you will contribute to risk assessments, security plans, and audit evidence while helping develop and maintain security policies.

Qualifications

• Experience in information security, SOC, or security-focused IT role.
• Familiarity with security tooling and incident response processes.
• Education/certifications verified before placement.

Responsibilities

• Monitor security tools, logs, and alerts; triage events and escalate confirmed incidents.
• Run vulnerability scans, prioritize findings by risk, and track remediation to closure.
• Support incident response: containment, investigation, documentation, and lessons learned.
• Review firewall rules, access controls, and system configurations against security baselines.
• Contribute to risk assessments, security plans, and audit evidence.
• Help write and maintain security policies, standards, and procedures.
• Advise project teams on secure design and help review new systems before go-live.

Skills

SIEM

EDR

Vulnerability scanning

NIST 800-53

NIST CSF

CIS Controls

ISO 27001

Networking basics

Windows

Linux

Identity management

Incident reporting

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Splunk

Microsoft Sentinel

CrowdStrike

Microsoft Defender

Tenable/Nessus

Qualys

Job description

Garden Life Development, LLC is seeking a Security Specialist for a full-time temporary assignment (W-2) in North Carolina. The role focuses on monitoring security tools, running vulnerability scans, supporting incident response, and reviewing access controls to ensure robust protection.

As part of the team, you will contribute to risk assessments, security plans, and audit evidence while helping develop and maintain security policies.