Remote Cybersecurity Analyst — Impactful Growth

Kentucky Fried Chicken (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

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.