About Equinix

Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company, operating 210 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:

The Security Architect works within a multi-disciplinary team of engineers and architects to design, build and maintain integrated security solutions and patterns for the enterprise. Success for this role is centered upon establishing and maintaining solid relationships and buy-in for risk-mitigation initiatives that serve as enablers of business transformation.

The Role will:

• Design, develop, and document enterprise security solutions
• Work with engineering team to fully operationalize the designs.
• Evaluate new and emerging security technologies for potential suitability in the company's environment
• Act as security subject matter expert utilizing current information security technology disciplines and industry standards to ensure confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information assets
• Develop reference security architectures and frameworks (including requirements, design patterns, and other artifacts) for use throughout the company
• Contribute to the development of security policies, security standards, and risk governance processes
• Develop and foster relationships with technical teams and business partners in order to create an integrated approach that provides data integrity, information confidentiality, and service availability
• Support business operations and critical information asset investments to ensure the security portfolio remains strategic and fully aligned to execute the priorities of the organization and deliver expected business results
• Support business operations and critical information asset investments to ensure the security portfolio remains strategic and fully aligned to execute the priorities of the organization and deliver expected business results

Knowledge / Skills / Abilities:

• Demonstrated knowledge of network security, mobile security, cloud security, and infrastructure security, including Windows, Unix/Linux.
• Demonstrated multiple year experience in one or more of the following:
  • Data Protection
  • Identity and Access Management
  • Cloud Security
• Knowledge of application security including API security including confidentiality, integrity, authentication, and authorization
• Preferred experience with the transformation of traditional data center security measures into industry adopted cloud technologies including Amazon, Azure, Google, etc.

Required Qualifications:

• One or more Security certifications (i.e. CISSP, CCSP, CISM, GSEC, SANS GIAG, ISSAP) or equivalent education. Additional cloud provider certification is a plus
• 7+ years’ work experience in in Security Engineering, Identity and Access Lifecycle Management, Data Protection, or Cloud Security in a medium or large corporate environment; or a Master’s degree in Information Security with 4 years’ work experience in Security Engineering, Identity and Access Lifecycle Management, Data Protection, or Cloud Security
• Demonstrated ability to develop solution designs to support enterprise-level environments
• Experience in developing enterprise security solutions in a large, complex environment
• Demonstrated strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Demonstrated ability to work within globally dispersed and cross-functional teams
• Broad knowledge of information technology and security controls in various application and infrastructure platforms including network (physical, virtual, internal, cloud), system platforms, storage, directory services, and end user computing