Application Security Analyst: Secure SDLC & APIs

Kemper Corporation

Alabama

Hybrid

USD 94,000 - 156,000

Full time

5 days ago

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Job summary

Kemper Corporation is seeking an Application Security Analyst in Alabama to embed security into the software development lifecycle and conduct credible assessments across modern applications, APIs, cloud-native services, and software supply chains.

You will partner with developers and architects to prevent, identify, validate, and remediate exploitable application risks, while building CI/CD security controls and promoting secure coding standards across engineering teams.

Qualifications

Hands-on experience with application security testing, secure code review, and vulnerability validation.

Responsibilities

Integrate security requirements and threat modeling into architecture, design, development, testing, release, and exception processes.
Perform and validate SAST, DAST, SCA, API testing, and manual security testing; distinguish exploitable weaknesses from tool noise.
Conduct security design and architecture reviews for web, API, cloud-native, containerized, and distributed applications.
Partner with developers to provide remediation guidance and verify closure.
Build or improve CI/CD security controls, scanning integrations, secure coding standards, and developer enablement.
Use risk, exploitability, asset criticality, and business context to prioritize vulnerabilities and security debt.
Analyze recurring defect patterns and drive preventive control improvements across engineering teams.