Cybersecurity Analyst

KFC; Birmingham (AL); Remote; USD 48,000 - 69,000; Full time

Job summary

KFC is seeking a Cybersecurity Analyst for a remote role serving teams including Birmingham, AL. You’ll own telemetry dashboards, contribute to incident response APIs, and drive security tests across environments.

Ideal candidates have at least 1 year of real experience, strong collaboration skills, and the discipline to work in a fast-paced setting while maintaining meticulous focus on details.

Qualifications

• 1 year of real experience in cybersecurity or a related field.
• Ability to read changelogs before upgrades and docs before asking questions.
• Strong collaboration and coaching skills with stakeholders across teams.
• Attention to detail and reliability in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Pull OAuth 2.0 telemetry into dashboards that leaders actually open.
• Negotiate cross-functional tradeoffs with product when timelines are tight.
• Design Incident Response APIs for Birmingham, AL teams and beyond.
• Spike an IDS/IPS proof of concept quickly to inform a go/no-go.
• Architect fault-tolerant distributed systems using Incident Response and decision making.
• Lead technical design reviews for junior technology initiatives.
• Write Kubernetes security integration tests to catch regressions before shipping.
• Wrangle OAuth 2.0 configs across environments so staging mirrors production.

Skills

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Reliability

Attention to detail

Learning pace

Fast-paced environment

Tools

Kali Linux

Kubernetes

Job description

This remote Cybersecurity Analyst role at KFC suits the engineer who reads the changelog before upgrading and the docs before asking. Earn $48,000 - $69,000, own outcomes, and grow your technology career with a team that values 1 years of real experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Pull OAuth 2.0 telemetry into dashboards KFC leaders actually open
• Negotiate Cross-Functional Collaboration tradeoffs with product when KFC timelines and reality collide
• Design Incident Response APIs other Birmingham, AL teams will still thank you for next year
• Spike an IDS/IPS proof of concept fast when KFC needs a yes-or-no answer
• Architect fault-tolerant distributed systems leveraging Incident Response and Decision Making
• Lead technical design reviews for junior technology initiatives
• Write the Kubernetes Security integration tests that catch regressions before Birmingham, AL ships them
• Wrangle OAuth 2.0 config across environments so Birmingham staging mirrors production

What You'll Bring

• Cross-Functional Collaboration fundamentals plus the Coaching polish clients notice
• The kind of reliability that earns you the hard assignments
• The kind of attention to detail that catches what spell-check misses
• A learner's pace that keeps up with shifting requirements
• Comfort working in a fast-paced, heads-down-and-happy environment

KFC is less a vendor and more a quietly-excellent Birmingham, AL workshop where Cross-Functional Collaboration and Kali Linux get the attention they deserve. Every craft-focused idea gets a fair hearing at KFC, no matter the 1 of experience behind it.

We start the conversation at $48,000 - $69,000 and end it with mentorship, benefits, and the flexibility to grow without relocating from AL.

The search for a junior Cybersecurity Analyst is in full swing, and we want to fill it soon.

If steady remote work with real stakes appeals to you, the Cybersecurity Analyst chair is waiting.