Information Security Incident Responder

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. With Equinix Metal, customers can rapidly deploy automated single-tenant infrastructure and interact with 1,800+ networks and 2,900+ cloud and service providers. 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.

**What you will be doing**

Security Architecture
- Fields, receives and reviews security architecture requests from internal customers
- Assists in reviewing and assessing adherence of new security architectures to guidelines and rejecting if said architectures do not meet requirements
- Reports and makes recommendations to senior members of the architecture team for policy revisions, changes and additions

Security Engineering
- Executes proofs of concepts
- Evaluates and scores vendor solutions against use cases for final vendor selection
- Manages towards project timelines, executing on deliverables in partnership with internal networking and infrastructure teams
- Provides technical status reports to management
- Responsible for anticipating technical roadblocks and escalating issues
- Responsible for managing all technical aspects of implementation
- Executes on the implementation of new security solutions for the enterprise

Security Operations
- Responsible for day-to-day security operations, 24/7/365
- Operates and troubleshoots next-generation firewalls, cloud web proxy, mobile device management systems, endpoint security, vulnerability management systems, intrusion detection/prevention (IDS/IPS) systems, and security incident event management (SIEM)

Security Incident Response
- Responsible for day-to-day security incident response, 24/7/365
- Investigates, researches and analyzes security incidents as they are escalated or reported
- Uses established procedures for remediation of incidents, escalating as needed for additional guidance

Security Policy & Compliance
- Responsible for following process to publish global IT security policies
- Triages and resolves basic customer security inquiries per documented guidelines
- Executes against enterprise compliance road-map
- Follows documented guidelines to ensure adherence to compliance goals
- Researches international regulations for information security and privacy and provides insight to management on possible policy changes or specific security controls

Cloud Security
- Responsible for following process to publish global IT cloud security policies
- Triages and resolves basic customer security inquiries per documented guidelines
- Executes against cloud compliance road-map
- Follows documented guidelines to ensure adherence to cloud compliance goals
- Researches international regulations for cloud security and privacy and provides insight to management on possible policy changes or specific cloud security controls

**What you should have**
- Bachelor's preferred
- Advanced English
- Certification in SANS (GPEN), SANS (GCIH) and SANS (GCED) preferred

Equinix is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, or status as a qualified individual with disability.