Senior Director, Global Security COE

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Job Summary

The Senior Director, Global Security, COE is a senior leadership role responsible for driving the global security strategy, ensuring industry-leading standards across all data centers, and enabling customer trust in Equinix’s security platform. As part of the AMER Operations leadership team, this role influences enterprise-wide collaboration and innovation in physical security. This leader plays a crucial role in fostering trust and engagement among key stakeholders, customers, and investors, while remaining responsive to an ever-evolving business landscape.

Responsibilities

• Global Security Strategy: Define, champion, and execute a long-term vision for physical security across 240+ data centers, ensuring alignment with business growth and customer needs

• Standards & Governance: Establish, enforce, and continuously improve global security standards, policies, and controls that meet or exceed industry best practices

• Innovation & Technology Adoption: Lead the evaluation and integration of new security technologies, architecture patterns, and service models to enhance resilience, cost-effectiveness, and scalability

• Cross-Functional Leadership: Collaborate with peers in Cybersecurity, Risk, Data Center Operations, Design & Construction, Procurement, and Sales to deliver unified and future-ready solutions.

• Operational Excellence: Oversee global security operations, ensuring consistent performance, timely project delivery, and measurable improvements in efficiency and risk reduction

• Change & Transformation: Lead the organization through complex change, building clarity in ambiguous situations and aligning teams to long-term security objectives

• Customer Advocacy: Act as a trusted advisor for internal and external customers, representing Equinix’s security capabilities with credibility and confidence

• Risk Anticipation & Response: Monitor global security threats, anticipate risks, and deploy proactive solutions to safeguard people, assets, and data centers worldwide

• People Leadership & Development: Recruit, develop, and retain top talent across geographies, fostering a high-performance culture of accountability, innovation, and inclusion

• CSR & Sustainability Alignment: Ensure global security practices support Equinix’s Corporate Social Responsibility goals and sustainability commitments

Qualifications

• Demonstrate strategic leadership experience in the technology sector, with a strong ability to drive vision and operational excellence

• 15+ years of progressive global leadership in physical security, risk management, or related fields

Deep knowledge of:

• Threat analysis, intelligence, and hunting

• Vulnerability assessments and mitigation

• Security monitoring, compliance, and auditing

• Physical, virtualized, and cloud-based security services

• Demonstrated ability to design/refine global standards, policies, and processes

• Strong experience balancing regional nuances with global consistency

• Proven record of managing large-scale security projects and programs across multiple geographies

• Skilled in analyzing security data and metrics for executive decision-making

• Adept at driving innovation in security systems, architecture patterns, and