Paylocity is an award-winning provider of cloud-based HR and payroll software solutions, offering the most complete platform for the modern workforce. The company has become one of the fastest-growing HCM software providers worldwide by offering an intuitive, easy-to-use product suite that helps businesses automate and streamline HR and payroll processes, attract and retain talent, and build a strong workplace culture.

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Position Overview

The Senior Cloud Security Architect is responsible for planning, evaluation, and implementation of security controls across the Paylocity environment. You will act as a security expert within a growing, collaborative team in a cutting-edge Human Capital Management technology company. You’ll keep abreast of the latest technologies in a hands-on role that also provides a unique opportunity to shape the future direction and design of our systems. The ideal candidate is passionate about technology and will embrace the opportunity to help lead our secure design and target security architecture roadmaps for both cloud and hybrid environments.

Primary Responsibilities

The Senior Cloud Security Architect is responsible for providing the highest level of cloud security subject matter expertise in support of the security and integrity of Paylocity’s technology landscape to prevent and reduce security risk. This includes the design of architectural patterns, technical target architectures, evaluating proposed architecture designs for technical risk, and working closely with peer teams to implement security controls.

Objective Areas:

• Act as a key contributor to identifying strategic initiatives to mature the enterprise security tools and architectural patterns.

• Contribute to the development of an architecture committee to help the evaluation of proposed architectural changes, security control considerations, and driving secure best practices throughout the enterprise.

• Develop a process to assess our cloud and on-prem infrastructure for security risks, providing recommendations to our product and technology teams to help further enhance our security posture.

• Provides design leadership for major security projects and initiatives to help ensure successful conclusions in line with project scopes and milestones.

• Work closely with Security Leadership to manage the expectations of internal partners related to security service delivery.

• Partners with peer teams within the Information Security department and their leaders to seamlessly deliver services or projects jointly.

• Utilizes a risk-based approach to prioritize the efforts of the Information Security organization and internal teams we depend upon to execute work.

• Maximizes the utilization of limited resources and leverages automation to increase capacity where feasible.

• Stays on top of changes in Paylocity’s internal technical architecture to identify changes in areas of excessive risk and to assist with resource allocation.

• Treats identified security gaps with a sense of urgency that they deserve.

• Experience working with the following platforms and tools:

Platform and Tools:

• AWS, Azure, or other cloud providers and depth with their respective services (AWS EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, Storage Gateway, Lambda, KMS, ECS/EKS preferred)

• API Security and common application connection patterns

• Serverless and cloud native application security

• Docker and Kubernetes (registry controls, image hardening, network policies)

• Identity services and authN/authZ (Active Directory, AWS Cognito, Okta)

• Web app session management (Cookies, Tokens, etc.)

• Web Application Firewalls (AWS Shield, F5 ASM, Imperva, etc.)

• DevSecOps deployment models and best practices

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in InfoSec, Computer Science, or a related preferred

• Minimum of 10+ years of Security experience

• Minimum 3+ years of experience as a Security Architect

• Solid understanding of NIST Cybersecurity and MITRE ATT&CK frameworks

• Working ability to design orchestration and automation utilizing tools such as CloudFormation, Ansible, and Terraform.

• Strongly prefer at least 1 relevant security-related certification. Examples of relevant security-related certification are as follows:

• AWS Professional Certification (Architect or DevOps)

• AWS Certified Security Specialty

• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)

• Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)

• GIAC Security Expert (GSE)

• Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)

• Certified Kubernetes Security Specialty

• Certified Kubernetes Administrator or Developer

Paylocity is an equal-opportunity employer. Paylocity is committed to the full inclusion of all individuals. We recruit, train, compensate, and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law. At Paylocity, we believe diversity makes us better.

We embrace and encourage our employees’ differences in age, culture, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion or spiritual belief, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other characteristics that make our employees unique. We actively cultivate these differences through our employee resource groups (ERGs), employee experiences, perspectives, talents, and approaches to drive innovation in the software and services we provide our customers.

We comply with federal and state disability laws and make reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. To request reasonable accommodation in the job application or interview process, please contact accessibility@paylocity.com.

This role can be performed from any office in the US. The pay range for this position is $152,401- $211,915 /yr; however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. This position is eligible for an annual bonus and restricted stock unit grant based on individual performance in addition to a full range of benefits outlined here. (https://rise.articulate.com/share/NWT-xukAz2nsMapN3L3TSRXfxzBGrFh_#/) This information is provided per the relevant state and local pay transparency laws for the location in which this position will be performed. Base pay information is based on market location. Applicants should apply via www.paylocity.com/careers.

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