Remote Senior Security Controls Architect

Kemper; Birmingham (AL); Remote; USD 94,000 - 156,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

Paid time off

401K match

Job summary

Kemper is seeking a Senior Technical Security Controls Principal in a remote-capable role across the United States. You will influence control architecture, validation, and continuous assurance across identity, endpoint, network, cloud, data, application, and logging domains.

The role requires principal-level judgment, deep technical knowledge, and the ability to mentor teams while partnering with Cybersecurity, GRC, Internal Audit, and technology groups to drive effective control design and

Qualifications

• Broad and deep security architecture/control experience across multiple technology domains.
• Hands-on ability to review configurations, logs, system data, architecture, technical evidence, and control logic.
• Experience designing technical control tests and validating operating effectiveness.
• Ability to use scripting, APIs, analytics, or security telemetry to automate evidence collection and continuous monitoring.
• Strong understanding of cloud, identity, endpoint, network, application, data-protection, and logging/security-monitoring control patterns.
• Typically 10+ years of progressive cybersecurity.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline or equivalent professional experience.

Responsibilities

• Define enterprise technical security-control patterns, standards, and design expectations across identity, endpoint, network, cloud, data, application, and logging domains.
• Assess whether controls are technically designed and operating as intended using configuration review, data validation, sampling, walkthroughs, and independent challenge.
• Develop technical test procedures and evidence standards that move beyond questionnaire or document-only assurance.
• Build or sponsor automation, API integrations, telemetry-based analytics, and continuous-control-monitoring use cases.
• Translate regulatory and framework requirements into technically meaningful control objectives and identify controls that are administratively present but ineffective.
• Lead complex control-gap analysis, remediation design, exception/risk-acceptance evaluation, and closure validation.
• Act as a senior technical advisor to Cybersecurity, GRC, Internal Audit, technology teams, and executives on control effectiveness.
• Mentor analysts and engineers and establish consistent control-engineering practices.

Skills

Security architecture

Configuration review

Automation tooling

Cloud security

Identity & access

Logging & monitoring

Scripting / APIs / telemetry

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field

Job description

Kemper is seeking a Senior Technical Security Controls Principal in a remote-capable role across the United States. You will influence control architecture, validation, and continuous assurance across identity, endpoint, network, cloud, data, application, and logging domains.

The role requires principal-level judgment, deep technical knowledge, and the ability to mentor teams while partnering with Cybersecurity, GRC, Internal Audit, and technology groups to drive effective control design and