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