Senior Director, Global Security Operations

We are seeking an established, results-oriented senior leader with a strong track record of operational excellence to serve as Senior Director, Global Security Operations. This leader will elevate security operations across CyrusOne’s global data center portfolio in a high-impact role with broad influence over the performance, resilience, and continued evolution of the operating model that protects people, assets, facilities, and customer trust across a complex, high-availability environment. 

The Global Senior Director will help translate enterprise strategy into operational execution by defining clear standards, strengthening accountability, and advancing a scalable, resilient approach to incident response, guard force performance, operational readiness, investigations, and site-level execution. This leader will play a critical role in driving consistency at scale, improving visibility into risk and performance, and positioning security operations to support business growth, customer commitments, and an evolving threat landscape. 

Working closely with the VP, Global Security, senior leadership, and cross-functional partners, the Global Senior Director will help align priorities across the global security function, strengthen coordination across teams and regions, and position security operations as a trusted, enabling function within the business. The role also carries significant responsibility for building leadership depth, accelerating functional maturity, and advancing a modern global security operations model that delivers predictable execution, measurable risk reduction, and long-term enterprise value. 

CyrusOne offers a distinctive platform for leaders who want to build at scale, influence enterprise outcomes, and strengthen a security operating model that directly supports customer confidence, business resilience, and long-term growth. 

Responsibilities: 

 

Strategy, Governance, Financial & Performance Management: 

• Serve as a key strategic and operational partner to the VP, Global Security, helping translate enterprise priorities into execution across the global security program. 

• Advise on operating model maturity, performance trends, organizational priorities, and investment decisions that strengthen resilience, consistency, and long-term capability across the global security function. 

• Drive execution of the enterprise strategy and multi-year roadmap for global security operations across corporate and data center environments. 

• Translate company strategy, customer commitments, contractual requirements, and risk priorities into globally applicable operating standards, governance models, and measurable performance expectations. 

• Define policies, procedures, standards, and operating controls that promote consistent, resilient, and audit-ready performance across the global estate while allowing for appropriate regional flexibility. 

• Shape budget strategy, resource allocation, and investment priorities for Security Operations, balancing disciplined spend, total cost of ownership, and long-term capability needs. 

• Establish executive KPI scorecards, operating reviews, and performance reporting that provide leadership with clear visibility into maturity, risk, service reliability, cost performance, and improvement priorities. 

• Advance functional maturity through standardization, performance management, corrective action discipline, change management, and targeted process transformation. 

• Reinforce governance rhythms, performance expectations, and disciplined execution across the organization. 

• Translate enterprise direction for site operating models, resource strategies, and support investments into scalable execution that supports contractual requirements, 24/7 response obligations, RCA discipline, and measurable risk reduction. 

 

Global Security Operations Delivery: 

• Set the