Director Of Information Security, Product

Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company, operating 240+ data centers across the globe and providing interconnections to all the key clouds and networks. Businesses need one place to simplify and bring together fragmented, complex infrastructure that spans private and public cloud environments. Our global platform allows customers to place infrastructure wherever they need it and connect it to everything they need to succeed.

At Equinix, we help the world’s digital leaders scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences, and transform people’s lives. Our culture is based on collaboration and the growth and development of our teams. 

We hire hardworking people who thrive on solving challenging problems and give them opportunities to hone new skills, and try new approaches, as we grow our product portfolio with new software and network architecture solutions. We embrace diversity in thought and contribution and are committed to providing an equitable work environment. that is foundational to our core values as a company and is vital to our success.

Job Summary

As a Business Information Security Officer (BISO) within Information Security, you believe security is an enabler for the business. You operate as a strategic leader understanding the business strategy and bridging the gap between security and business interests.

Most importantly, you partner with the Data Center Services (DCS) Product Engineering team to reach their goals quickly and securely. Together with your fellow BISOs and security experts, you innovate and improve Equinix’s security posture. You drive initiatives and projects to prioritize business and security risk reduction activities. You are pragmatic and practical in your understanding of modern software development and IT operations, and familiar with corporate cybersecurity objectives. If you are passionate about information security and risk management, driven to create a culture that enables us to innovate with speed while keeping our customers secure, and dedicated to building relationships to enable problem solving, we can’t wait for your to join our team!

As our new BISO, your main objective is to make security proactive and a strategic part of how the Equinix Data Center team delivers innovative products to our customers.

Responsibilities

• In case of incidents, lead, prioritize and coordinate the response and lead a programmatic approach to long term risk mitigation and solution sustainability
• Partner with business executive leadership to advise, drive decision-making on security to enable the business while mitigating cybersecurity risk
• Drive the adoption and improvement of InfoSec policies, measure trust platform control and capability adoption, effectiveness and maturity across the Product Engineering unit, and support security architecture responsibilities for designing, building, testing and implementing security systems within business line work
• Define and implement the Information Security Policies and Standards within the product team and effectively communicate the impact of operations, compliance, and cybersecurity gaps to multiple audiences
• Understand the risks of the DCS Product Engineering group through the risk register and share that understanding throughout the business to drive a positive security culture. Develop relationships with key partners and work collaboratively with the product development and security engineers to identify, prioritize and reduce risks
• Serve as a cybersecurity expert and provide skilled advice and recommendations regarding risk reduction, mediation and transfer. Contribute and collaborate in the creation of the product roadmap to ensure that an improved security posture happens and that risks are materially reduced
• Understand the goals, products and objectives of the DCS Product Engineering group to lead and define a strategic roadmap of security initiatives
• Communicate business needs with the InfoSec team to inform development of strategy, capabilities and solutions that address unique business challenges. Collaborate with other BISOs and the CISO to build a culture across the enterprise that allows us to deliver innovative solutions while reinforcing the trust our customers transfer to us
• Partner with engineering and operations team to right size security systems and effectively measure Service Level Management for security and assurance activities moving towards measuring business risk
• Innovate and communicate how to most effectively adopt security practices both with the business and the security team so the organization as a whole benefits
• Develop the strategy to embed security in the business through influencing and driving prioritization of initiatives with executive leaders

Qualifications

• Team-oriented and can interface effectively with a broad range of people and roles, including upper management and technology leaders
• Ability to negotiate and influence senior leaders to drive desired outcomes without direct authority
• An outstanding ability to empathize and understand a business unit’s goals and challenges
• Excellent customer and partner service and support
• Experience with a technical services business model
• Ability to threat model solutions on both high- and technical- level
• Validated data analysis and problem-solving skills
• Maintain calmness and clarity of thought under pressure and can maintain confidentiality
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or related field, preferred
• Deep technical knowledge of security and privacy standards, frameworks and architecture
• 10+ years of information security industry experience
• Powerful written and verbal communication skills for executive interactions
• Experience developing strategic roadmaps and leading projects
• Deep understanding of cybersecurity threats, tools and techniques
• Experience partnering with product engineering organizations developing cloud-native applications and services in support of physical (infrastructure) and digital products

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