Kemper Insurance is hiring a Senior Application Security Analyst in Dallas, TX (onsite). This role focuses on strengthening application and API security while helping improve software delivery practices, including safeguards for software dependencies and AI-enabled application functionality. The compensation range is USD 89,000 - 148,000 per year.
What you’ll do
You will help identify and reduce security weaknesses across applications, APIs, and the software delivery lifecycle. Your work will include threat-aware review of system designs and technical evaluation of security findings, with an emphasis on turning results into actionable remediation and durable control improvements.
- Review application designs and support threat modeling.
- Evaluate code, dependency, and application-testing findings to determine security risk.
- Prioritize weaknesses using exploitability and business impact.
- Validate that fixes address root causes and improve delivery-process controls.
- Assess relevant risks tied to software dependencies and AI-enabled application functionality.
What you bring
- A relevant degree or an equivalent combination of professional experience, education, and demonstrated expertise.
- 5+ years in application security or software engineering, including 3+ years of hands-on application-security work.
- An application-security credential such as CSSLP, GWAPT, GWEB, OSWE, or a comparable certification.
- Experience across secure design, API security, testing, and collaborating with developers.
Security skills and technologies
Relevant technologies and credential examples include CSSLP, GWAPT, GWEB, OSWE, and CISSP.
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- PTO
- 401K
Location
Primary location: Dallas, TX (onsite). Additional locations listed: Chicago, Illinois, and P&C-Butterfield Road-Downers Grove-IL-AAC.
Nice to have
- Relevant programming-language expertise and software supply-chain controls.
- CISSP or a comparable security credential.
