Cloud Security Architect

Paysafe is a global payments platform powering the experience economy, with a strong focus on the iGaming, video gaming, e-commerce, retail, travel and hospitality sectors. With 30 years of expertise in payment technology, Paysafe helps businesses and consumers lift every experience through seamless, secure payment solutions, including card payments, digital wallets such as Skrill, eCash solutions like PaysafeCard, and a suite of local payment methods. With approximately 2,900 employees across 12 countries and annualized transactional volume of $167 billion in 2025, Paysafe connects people and businesses worldwide through innovative digital payment experiences.

As a Cloud Security Architect, you will own the security architecture of Paysafe's cloud and infrastructure landscape, with a primary focus on AWS and Azure. You will act as a design authority for major transformation initiatives, including cloud migrations and moving regulated payment products to the cloud. You will partner with IT, engineering and business teams to deliver solutions that are secure, compliant and scalable.

What you will do:

• Define and maintain the cloud security architecture, aligned with Paysafe's business, technology and product strategy and the wider security roadmap.
• Design secure AWS architectures for cloud migrations, product transitions and infrastructure transformation.
• Act as security design authority across the delivery lifecycle. You will threat-model solutions, translate requirements into proportionate controls, and approve architectures for production.
• Review architectures to identify risks and control gaps, and agree pragmatic mitigations with delivery teams.
• Own cloud security standards, reference patterns and automated guardrails covering: IAM, network segmentation, encryption and key management, logging and monitoring, resilience, policy-as-code.
• Ensure cloud designs meet PCI DSS, DORA and GDPR requirements, including CDE scoping and segmentation.
• Work closely with Product, Cloud, Infrastructure, Engineering, Enterprise Architecture, Risk & Compliance and other Information Security teams.

To be successful you need to have:

• Significant experience in cloud and infrastructure security architecture in complex, regulated enterprise environments.
• Deep, hands-on cloud security expertise in AWS or Azure, such as Organizations and SCPs, IAM, VPC design, KMS, and EKS or serverless security, or their Azure equivalents.
• A track record of securing large-scale cloud migrations and application re-platforming.
• Experience with IaC (Terraform) and embedding security guardrails into CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong threat modelling skills and the ability to assess complex, hybrid architectures.
• Working knowledge of PCI DSS, DORA, ISO 27001 and GDPR, and of how they apply to cloud design.
• A pragmatic, influential communicator who can turn risk into clear decisions for engineers and senior stakeholders.
• Desirable certifications: AWS Certified Security – Specialty, CCSP, CISSP, SABSA, or Microsoft Certified: Cybersecurity Architect Expert.

We offer in return:

• The opportunity to write the history of a leading and growing multinational company.
• Tailor-made training and ongoing development to help you enhance your skills in the field of online payments.
• Multiple career progression opportunities in a dynamic in-house business.
• Environment where product expertise, professional and personal commitment are rewarded.
• Competitive remuneration and social benefits package (25 days annual paid leave, 4 days paid volunteering time a year through our Paysafe Giving initiative, health insurance, sports card, team events, company discounts, variety of soft skills, business and technical training programs).
• Fun and collaborative working atmosphere.
• Flexible working model - we encourage our employees to embrace our flexible working approach. You will be expected to work from home and spend an average of three days a week at our Sofia office as part of our hybrid work model.

Are you ready to take your career to the next level?
Join our team that is inspired by a unified vision and propelled by passion.

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Equal Employment Opportunity
Paysafe provides equal employment opportunities to all employees, and applicants for employment, and prohibits discrimination of any type with regard to ethnicity, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other protected characteristics. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of recruitment and employment. If you need any reasonable adjustments please let us know. We will be happy to help and look forward to hearing from you.