Senior Manager, Data & Cloud Security

Position Title: Senior Manager, Data & Cloud Security

Location: Dallas (Hybrid)

Your role 

We are seeking a highly skilled Data & Cloud Security Manager to lead and strengthen our global data and cloud security programs. This role is responsible for safeguarding sensitive data across on-premises and multi-cloud environments, driving encryption oversight, enabling, and managing DLP capabilities, leading data incident response, and ensuring alignment with global privacy and regulatory requirements.

The ideal candidate will work within the CISO organization and bring strong hands-on technical expertise in implementing data security programs, cloud security controls, and managing data lifecycle and incident response within complex global environments.

What you’ll do

• Lead and enforce the enterprise data security and cloud security strategy and roadmap.
• Design, implement, monitor, and optimize enterprise-wide data security controls, including global DLP solutions across endpoint, network, email, and cloud environments
• Oversee encryption standards and key management practices (data at rest, in transit, and in use).
• Secure cloud and SaaS platforms using cloud-native and third-party security controls (CSPM, CASB, CWPP, CIEM).
• Support the Data Governance Council in implementing data classification and labeling frameworks.
• Lead technical investigations of data breaches and cloud security incidents.
• Align security controls with global privacy and regulatory requirements (e.g., GDPR, CCPA, PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, EU AI Act, DGA).
• Conduct risk assessments and drive remediation of data and cloud security gaps.
• Serve as a data security SME on the Technical Review Board and support development teams in applying Security by Design principles.
• Ensure best practices are applied in secure cryptographic configurations across servers, databases, storage, and cloud platforms.
• Support the implementation and governance of enterprise data retention programs and lifecycle management frameworks.
• Evaluate tokenization, masking, and anonymization solutions where required.
• Primarily hands-on and execution-focused to enforce data security policy requirements, with a small component of team management and mentorship.
• Provide metrics and executive reporting on the company’s data security posture.

What you’ll need

• Bachelor’s degree in information security, Computer Science, or a related field.

• 7+ years of cybersecurity experience, with a strong focus on data security and cloud security.

• Hands-on expertise in encryption technologies, DLP solutions, PKI, and cloud security implementations.

• Experience securing AWS, Azure, and/or GCP environments.

• Strong understanding of regulatory and cybersecurity frameworks (e.g., NIS2, DORA, SOCI, ISO 27001, NIST, SOC 2).

• Proven experience managing and responding to data security incidents.

• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Purview DLP and ServiceNow.

• Professional certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, CISM, GCDP, or equivalent security certifications.

A bit about us

Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company’s global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx®) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 25+ countries on six continents.

To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

A bit about our team 

Our Technology & Innovation team strives to innovate alongside our customers and empower their businesses to thrive. We work closely with our customers to develop insights-based, data-driven technical solutions and differentiated value propositions on PlatformDIGITAL® across the world. Operating in almost 50 cities globally means we understand how rapidly the world is evolving, so we’ve built a best-in-class development model to qualify, package; and enable cloud to core to edge hybrid IT solutions. Our deep technical heritage, combined with our global footprint, me