About the Role
The Subregional Head of Security is responsible for safeguarding Digital Realty’s assets, ensuring compliance, and maintaining operational continuity across the sub-region. The role leads security strategy execution, oversees physical security operations, and ensures alignment with global security standards.
Responsibilities
- Lead and implement sub-regional security strategy aligned with global objectives
- Oversee physical security operations including access control, CCTV and site security
- Act as escalation point for security incidents and drive resolution and prevention
- Manage security vendors, contracts, SLAs and performance
- Lead, coach and develop security teams across multiple sites
- Own sub-regional security budget, resource planning and cost optimisation
- Ensure compliance with security policies, audits and certifications (SOC2, ISO, PCI)
- Conduct risk assessments and maintain risk registers
- Partner with internal stakeholders and external agencies including law enforcement
- Support customer audits, site visits and security-related reporting
Requirements
- Significant experience in multi-site security management
- Experience managing third-party security providers
- Fluent in English (written and spoken)
Skills
- Strategic thinker with strong problem-solving capability
- Proven leadership and stakeholder management skills
- Strong communication and influencing skills
- Customer-focused with a service excellence mindset
- Resilient, adaptable and able to work under pressure
- High integrity with a proactive and hands-on approach
- Strong knowledge of security risk management and best practices
- Strong financial and operational acumen
Education Level
- Degree qualified and/or ASIS CPP (or equivalent)
Benefits
- Excellent benefits
- Supportive and inclusive environment
- Development opportunities
- Onboarding program
- Continuous training
About the Company
- 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.
