Application Security Analyst

🇺🇸 Remote - North Carolina 🕑 Full-Time 💰 $85K - $105K 💻 Cybersecurity 🗓️ November 10th, 2026

Python Java IAM

Edtech.com's Summary

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is hiring an Application Security Analyst. The remote role secures the university’s ConnectCarolina enterprise applications, which cover finance, human resources, payroll, and student administration, by designing and supporting authentication, authorization, role administration, and access governance. The analyst works within the Enterprise Applications team alongside business stakeholders, identity and access management teams, and technical support staff.

Highlights

Analyze, design, develop, implement, and support enterprise application security solutions for ConnectCarolina and related university systems.
Support security initiatives involving authentication, authorization, role administration, access governance, audit compliance, and monitoring, in line with university policies and industry best practices.
Work with business stakeholders, functional teams, Identity and Access Management (IAM) teams, and technical support staff to keep access to university applications and data secure and reliable.
Take part in every phase of the application lifecycle, from requirements gathering and solution design through testing, deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement.
Troubleshoot application and security issues, including analyzing application, system, and integration logs manually and with monitoring tools such as Splunk.
Bachelor’s degree with 2 to 4 years of experience or master’s degree with 1 to 2 years, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Required experience with authentication, authorization, role-based security, and access management, plus systems analysis and application development methodologies and at least one development tool such as Java, HTML, PHP, or Python.
Preferred experience with web application development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, web services, and API integrations) and relational database design and querying, plus willingness to learn PeopleSoft and other platforms.
Hiring range of $85,000 to $105,000.
Permanent full-time position of 40 hours per week with a 100% remote arrangement; employees generally must live in North Carolina within a reasonable commuting distance of their assigned duty station.