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Position Overview:
The Sr. 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 HR and payroll tech 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 the opportunity to play a foundational role in a new team is self-motivated and has great communication skills.
Location: Remote
Reports To: Manager, Security Engineering
Responsibilities:
The Sr. Security Architect is responsible for maintaining the security and integrity of Paylocity's systems and networks to prevent and reduce security risk. This includes leading providing architectural patterns for safe conduct, evaluating networks and integrations for technical risk, and working with other 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.
• Manages major security projects and initiatives to their successful conclusion, on time and at or under budget.
• Actively manages the expectations of internal partners related to security service delivery.
• Continuously works to improve the quality, efficiency, and consistency of application security service delivery.
• Partners well with other teams within the Information Security department and their managers 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.
• Regularly communicates the current status of service delivery, projects, initiatives to security management as needed.
• Treats identified security gaps with a sense of urgency that they deserve.
• Experience in implementing and managing the following platforms and tools:
  • Active Directory (Azure AD, On-prem)
  • Microsoft 0356 and E5 (Secure Email, DLP, Collaboration tools controls)
  • Data Loss Prevention (ProofPoint, ForcePoint, etc.)
  • DNS Filtering and Web Proxies (Cisco Umbrella, Zscaler, etc.)
  • Email Security (ProofPoint, Mimecast, etc.)
  • Endpoint Detection & Response (Microsoft ATP, CrowdStrike, Carbon Black, etc.)
  • Network Firewalls (Cisco, Palo Alto, Checkpoint, etc.)
  • Privileged Access Management (PAM)
  • Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
  • Centralized logging and monitoring (Splunk, Exabeam, etc.)
  • Web Application Firewalls (F5 ASM, Imperva, etc.)

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in InfoSec, Computer Science, or a related preferred
• Minimum 10+ years of experience in Security Architecture or a similar role
• Solid understanding of NIST Cybersecurity and MITRE ATT&CK frameworks.
• Working ability to write scripts and automation. This includes parsing log data (i.e. RegEx, XML, etc.)
• Strongly prefer at least 1 relevant security-related certification. Examples of relevant security-related certification are as follows:
• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
• Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)
• GIAC Security Expert (GSE)
• GIAC Systems and Network Auditor (GSNA)
• Computer Security Incident Handler (CSIH)
• GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH)
• GIAC Certified Forensic Analyst (GCFA)
• Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)

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Paylocity strives to create an organizational culture where every employee has a voice, feels truly welcome, appreciated, and free to be themselves, and is empowered and enabled to do their best work. A strong commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion is critical to creating such a culture.
We've made great strides to support diversity, equity, and inclusion. That being said, we realize there's still room for improvement. Our current focus is on the following initiatives:

• Education & Awareness
• Client Community
• Company Representation
• Advocacy & Support
• Fairness & Equality
• PCTY Gives

Want to learn more, click here to access our DEI flipbook. https://www.flipsnack.com/paylocitycom/diversity-equity-and-inclusion.html
This job description has been written to provide an accurate reflection of the current job and to include the general nature of work performed. It is not designed to contain a comprehensive detailed inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of the employees assigned to the job. Management reserves the right to revise the job or require that other or different tasks be performed when circumstances change.
This role can be performed from any office in the US. The pay range for this position in Colorado is $120,000 - $175,000 /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. This information is provided per the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act. Base pay information is based on market location. Applicants should apply via www.paylocity.com/careers.