# IT Security Specialist

**Company**: Axios
**Location**: Remote
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $85,000 - $105,000
**Category**: Security
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/axios/jobs/8262622?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

Axios is hiring an IT Security Specialist to help protect the systems, devices, identities, applications, and workflows that power the company.

Responsibilities:

- Own security for Axios' Mac fleet, including Jamf, compliance, monitoring, alert investigation, malware response, and device remediation.

- Own Okta-based identity and access management, including adaptive MFA, authentication, SSO, application assignments, access scopes, and joiner/mover/leaver processes.

- Partner with People, Legal and Infrastructure to improve provisioning, offboarding, access removal, archival, legal holds, and lifecycle automation.

- Establish and maintain security configurations and risk controls for core services and SaaS applications.

- Treat the browser and SaaS layer as critical security boundaries, evaluating how users access data and applications and where browser-based workflows create risk.

- Use logs and activity monitoring across endpoints, browsers, identity systems, Google Workspace, and SaaS applications to investigate suspicious activity and support incident response.

- Assess systems, tools, permissions, and workflows for security, operational fit, and long-term supportability.

- Help protect high-risk users, including journalists and executives, through appropriate privacy, account-security, and personal-data protections.

Security awareness and AI security:

- Own security awareness programs, including human risk, phishing simulations, reporting workflows, completion tracking, and targeted training for higher-risk users.

- Design and deliver customized training for different parts of the company.

- Develop practical AI security policies and guidance, and review AI tools, automations, agents, and internally built solutions.

Requirements:

- Substantial experience in IT security, endpoint security, identity and access management, systems administration, or a related field.

- Hands-on experience with macOS, Jamf or comparable endpoint platforms, CrowdStrike Falcon, Okta or a similar identity provider, and Google Workspace security.

- Understands modern security boundaries across browsers, SaaS applications, identity providers, endpoints, APIs, data flows, and AI-enabled systems.

Benefits:

- 401(k) with employer match

- Robust PPO and High Deductible health insurance options

- Employer Health Savings Account (HSA) contribution

- Dental and vision coverage

- Primary caregiver 12-week paid leave

- Generous vacation policy, plus holidays

- One mental health day per quarter

- Annual learning and development stipend

- $100 monthly work-from-home stipend

- Tele-mental health services through Headspace

- OneMedical membership

- Personal health advocacy resources

- Inclusive fertility, hormonal health and family forming benefits

- Access to the Axios “Family Fund”

- Increased work flexibility for parents and caretakers

- Virtual company-sponsored social events

## Skills

### Required
- IT security
- endpoint security
- identity and access management
- macOS
- Jamf
- Okta
- Google Workspace security

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