Machine Identity Security Analyst

Kemper Corporation; Dallas (TX); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 133,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

401(k) plan

Tuition assistance

Paid time off

Job summary

Kemper is seeking an Identity Security & Non-Human Identity Analyst to design and operate security controls for non-human identities, including service accounts, workload identities, bots, keys and certificates. The role emphasizes cloud/DevOps proficiency, credential engineering, automation, and risk-based governance.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in IAM/cloud security, hands-on work with secrets and workload identities, and a Bachelor's degree in a related field.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of IAM, cloud security, DevOps/DevSecOps, infrastructure security, or related experience.
• Hands-on work with non-human identities, secrets, keys, certificates, or workload identity.
• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Cloud Computing, or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Discover and classify service accounts, application identities, bots, API keys, tokens, certificates, workload identities, and other machine identities.
• Establish authoritative inventory, ownership, criticality, lifecycle status, and reconciliation across cloud, directories, CMDB, secrets platforms, and applications.
• Engineer secure secrets, key, token, and certificate creation, storage, rotation, expiration, revocation, and monitoring processes.
• Partner with cloud and DevOps teams on workload identity, managed identities, service principals, Kubernetes identities, CI/CD credentials, and infrastructure-as-code controls.
• Identify stale, orphaned, embedded, overprivileged, or unmanaged credentials and drive risk-based remediation.
• Implement least privilege, ownership certification, usage analytics, exception management, and governance for machine identities.
• Build APIs, scripts, onboarding patterns, automated rotation, dashboards, and service metrics to scale the capability.

Skills

IAM

Cloud security

DevOps/DevSecOps

Kubernetes identities

Scripting/API automation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity / CS / IT / Eng / Cloud Computing

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD tools

Secrets management platforms

Job description

Kemper is seeking an Identity Security & Non-Human Identity Analyst to design and operate security controls for non-human identities, including service accounts, workload identities, bots, keys and certificates. The role emphasizes cloud/DevOps proficiency, credential engineering, automation, and risk-based governance.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in IAM/cloud security, hands-on work with secrets and workload identities, and a Bachelor's degree in a related field.