Information Security Architect

BambooHR LLC; Utah; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

BambooHR LLC is seeking an Information Security Architect for a hybrid role based in Utah. The ideal candidate will lead the security architecture design across cloud environments, ensuring secure solutions are operationally sustainable.

Responsibilities include defining security standards, conducting threat modeling, and partnering with various teams to implement security controls. The candidate should have 6-7+ years of experience in information security and a relevant bachelor's degree.

Qualifications

• 6–7+ years of hands-on experience in information security, security engineering, cloud security, or closely related roles.
• Proficiency in using AI tools for improving security architecture and engineering workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and evolution of security architecture across cloud infrastructure.
• Own and maintain security architecture standards and secure design patterns.
• Conduct and lead security architecture reviews for new systems and vendor tools.
• Drive threat modeling and architectural risk assessments.
• Define cloud security control expectations and validate adoption.
• Influence detection and response architecture in collaboration with SecOps.

Skills

Security architecture design

Cloud security

Information security

Threat modeling

Risk assessment

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field

Job description

Please Note: This is a Utah-based hybrid position which will require some regular in-office days each week. Additionally, employment with BambooHR is contingent on passing both a background and credit check.

Essential Job Duties

The Information Security Architect will lead hands‑on security architecture design across BambooHR’s cloud environment and corporate information systems, partnering with engineering, IT, and security teams to embed security into platforms, processes, and day‑to‑day technology decisions.

A typical day includes leading architecture and design reviews, defining secure cloud and corporate security patterns, advising on identity and data protection strategies, and guiding teams through complex security tradeoffs to enable secure, scalable delivery.

The Information Security Architect will own outcomes across cloud and corporate security architecture, delivering scalable designs, standards, and measurable risk reduction. This role operates with a high degree of autonomy and influence, partnering across engineering, IT, product, and security to embed security into how BambooHR designs, builds, and operates.

You will:

• Lead the design and evolution of security architecture across cloud infrastructure, SaaS platforms, and corporate information systems, ensuring solutions are secure‑by‑design, scalable, and operationally sustainable.
• Own and maintain security architecture standards, reference architectures, and secure design patterns spanning identity and access management, data protection, logging/telemetry, endpoint security, and third‑party integrations.
• Conduct and lead security architecture reviews for new systems, material changes, vendor tools, and integrations; document decisions, required control outcomes, and implementation guidance that teams can execute.
• Drive threat modeling and architectural risk assessments for strategic initiatives; translate findings into prioritized remediation plans and architecture improvements that balance risk reduction with usability and delivery velocity.
• Define and validate cloud security control expectations, including IAM, network segmentation, encryption and key management, secrets management, centralized logging, and least‑privilege access models; validate adoption through partnership with engineering and IT.
• Influence detection and response architecture in collaboration with SecOps to improve visibility, telemetry quality, and response effectiveness; support investigations by providing architectural context and remediation guidance as needed.
• Partner with Security Engineering, Application Security, Security Operations, and GRC to ensure security controls are consistently designed and implemented across prevention, detection, response, and governance/audit domains (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001, and customer requirements).
• Create clear and accessible architecture documentation (standards, diagrams, patterns, decision records) and communicate security tradeoffs effectively to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Mentor and guide security practitioners and cross‑functional partners by improving shared understanding, raising architectural maturity, and promoting consistent adoption of security patterns and secure‑by‑default approaches.
• Demonstrate an AI‑forward mindset and proficiency by actively using AI tools to improve productivity, quality, and decision‑making in security architecture and engineering workflows, and be able to speak to real‑world examples of using AI to conduct work and to design and implement practical, secure solutions (e.g., accelerating architecture documentation, threat modeling, control validation, detection logic development, policy/standard drafting, or automating analysis).

What You Need to Get the Job Done

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 6–7+ years of hands‑on experience in information security, security engineering, cloud security, or closely related roles.