Senior Technical Program Manager, Equinix

Global Physical Security Engineering

Salary not provided
AWS
JIRA
Senior level
Toronto
Equinix

Digital infrastructure company

Open for applications

Equinix

Digital infrastructure company

1001+ employees

B2BCommunicationSaaSCloud Computing

Open for applications

Salary not provided
AWS
JIRA
Senior level
Toronto

1001+ employees

B2BCommunicationSaaSCloud Computing

Company mission

To provide finance, manufacturing, transport, government, and healthcare organizations a cloud-first world.

Role

Who you are

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
  • Project management experience, 5+ years
  • Project planning
  • PM tools (ex. MS Project, Jira))
  • Task management
  • SCRUM methodology
  • Agile methodology
  • Product management, 5+ years
  • Product roadmaps
  • Product lifecycle management
  • Requirements gathering
  • Working directly with engineering teams experience
  • Project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
  • Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
  • Experience working directly with engineering (security, software) teams experience
  • Experience developing and executing / delivering product and technical roadmaps
  • Experience managing technical programs across cross-functional teams, building processes, and coordinating release schedules
  • Experience with MS Project, MS Office, and MS Sharepoint
  • Experience managing large scale programs that impact <$50M annually

Desirable

  • PMP
  • PRINCE2
  • AWS Certification(s)
  • Experience leading technical projects for

What the job involves

  • We are looking for a Senior Technical Program Manager to work in our physical security technology space
  • As a Senior Technical Program Manager, Global Physical Security Engineering at Equinix, you’ll use your technical expertise to lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish
  • You’ll work with stakeholders to plan requirements, identify risks, manage project schedules, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company
  • You're equally comfortable explaining your team's analyses and recommendations to executives as you are discussing the technical tradeoffs in product development with engineers
  • You’ll use your technical expertise to lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish
  • This role will partner with the Engineering, Product Management, Sales, Operations, and Leadership across Equinix to plan, design, implement, launch, and operate security services
  • Implement communications standards across a portfolio of programs including executive and key partner communications
  • Manage program reviews, decision-making, prioritization, and Resource Stewardship where improvements such as efficiency and utilization gains are measurable
  • Lead a governance structure that drives executive decision-making and ensure governance structure exposes and mitigates dependencies
  • Identify change management opportunities that increase program velocity and affect multiple teams
  • Define/manage a program portfolio solving problems that focus on business impact for the organization and product area
  • Work with all Equinix teams to ensure physical security IT devices globally, (cameras, access control systems, alarms, etc) are configured with up-to-date security settings
  • Implement and maintain encryption protocols to protect data transmitted by physical security devices
  • Create processes to regularly update firmware and software for all security devices globally to protect against vulnerabilities
  • Manage & partner with IT teams on all heath monitoring on devices to ensure business continuity
  • Work closely with the Global Physical Security team to integrate IT security measures into physical security operations
  • Collaborate with network and system administrators to ensure physical security devices are properly integrated into the broader IT infrastructure
  • Provide guidance and support to local security teams at various global locations
  • Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation of Global security policies, procedures, and configurations for physical security IT devices
  • Provide training and awareness programs for staff on the secure use and management of physical security devices
  • Develop standard operating procedures for the secure deployment and management of physical security systems
  • Evaluate new physical security technologies and recommend solutions to enhance security through a Secure by Design process
  • Plan and oversee the implementation of new security technologies and ensure they are properly integrated into existing systems, and Information Security Architecture Frameworks
  • Perform regular reviews and updates of existing security technologies to ensure they meet current security standards

Our take

Equinix is a veteran player in the digital infrastructure market, connecting industry-leading organizations in finance, manufacturing, retail, transportation, government, healthcare, and education.

The company provides a range of services within the categories of digital, support, data center, and interconnection, with capabilities including, for example, simplifying hybrid cloud deployments or securing on-site deployments. It has an extensive range of partners, granting its clients access to a vast range of industry-leading technologies atop its own offerings.

With a wide global presence, Equinix has secured a path to continued success by its ability to keep abreast of developments in the space. The company is comfortably positioned to remain a robust and leading player across multiple growth avenues and can be expected to make more smart developments and partnerships in the future.

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Top investors

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back within 2 weeks

9% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (1 round)

Dec 1999

$280m

LATE VC

Total funding: $280m

Company benefits

  • Equinix employees receive excellent health care and counseling plans that vary by country to ensure the well-being of you and your family. We offer paid vacations and holidays and encourage community involvement year-round via volunteer opportunities
  • Spending time with your loved ones and taking care of your family are important. Equinix provides a range of country-specific programs that ensure you have the resources needed to thrive and manage your family’s needs
  • Equinix offers different programs to help you build your financial security, make charitable donations and seek additional education. In many countries we also offer a flexible employee stock purchase plan

Company values

  • Seek something bigger - Come drive meaningful change as part of the world’s trusted, leading digital infrastructure company. Together, our work enables innovation that enriches our work, life and planet
  • Challenge assumptions - Bring your unique perspectives and contributions to help us make bold decisions, become aware of biases and remove any barriers that still exist
  • Want to unlock your potential - Achieve, learn, adapt and be comfortable building a fulfilling career. We are here to help you unlock your potential

Company HQ

Redwood Shores, Redwood City, CA

Leadership

Charles Meyers

(President & CEO (Not Founder))

Former Senior Associate at Booz Allen & Hamilton, President and COO at BellSouth.net, and VP of Business and Corp Development at Internet Security Systems. Before becoming CEO of Equinix, they were a Senior Technology Executive and Fitness Entrepreneur at Life Restorations LLC and Group President of Messaging and Mobile Media at VeriSign.

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