Security Standards, Training & Assurance Manager

EdgeConneX; Herndon (VA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

EdgeConneX is hiring a Physical Security Standards & Training Manager in the United States (hybrid). You will own the standards framework, run audits, manage certifications, and deliver on-site training across sites to ensure consistent security practice.

Requirements include a Bachelor's in security/risk/compliance and experience designing assurance programs; CPP/PSP/Lead Auditor certs are desirable. Travel to sites will be required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in security, risk, compliance or similar.
• Experience designing and running assurance, audit or compliance programs.
• Experience in data center/critical infrastructure sector.
• Experience delivering on-site physical security training.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain the physical security standards framework.
• Translate policy into site-level standards and controls.
• Govern document control and change-management.
• Maintain assurance library and map controls to obligations.
• Lead internal assurance program: plan, schedule, audits.
• Track findings, remediation, and report to leadership.
• Coordinate external audits and assessor engagement.
• Maintain evidence repository and certification schedule.
• Own training framework for site security personnel.
• Deliver on-site training on standards and systems.
• Run inductions and verify competency.
• Feed lessons from incidents back into standards.
• Travel to sites for audit/training; perform other duties.

Skills

Policy translation

Auditing

Training delivery

Security program mgmt

Vendor coordination

Communication

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in security/risk/compliance

CPP/PSP/Lead Auditor certs desirable

Job description

Led by an experienced management team and supported by a strong investor group, including large and experienced institutions and strategic partners, EdgeConneX offers a dynamic, fast-paced work environment where we are bringing flexibility, proximity, power, and connectivity to some of the world’s key businesses. With major offices in Herndon, Denver, Amsterdam, Singapore and Malaysia, we have a global footprint and a unified team of employees committed to providing a premier customer experience and delivering the full spectrum of data center solutions, from core to edge, like no other data center provider can do.

Focused on driving innovation and helping our customers define and deliver their own unique vision for the Edge, at any scale, in any market worldwide, for any requirement, we are building tomorrow’s data center infrastructure, today for some of the world’s most demanding Network, Content, and Cloud customers.

Title: Physical Security Standards & Training Manager
Position: Full Time
Location: United States of America (hybrid)
Travel: Travel to sites for audit and training delivery, as required

The Security Standards & Training Manager owns and operates the EdgeConneX physical security standards framework, the assurance and audit regime that demonstrates those standards are met, and the training and competency program that equips personnel to deliver them. The role exists to give EdgeConneX a measured, auditable and continuously improving physical security capability - translating written policy into consistent practice, evidencing that practice to customers, certifiers and leadership, and ensuring every person with a security responsibility is trained and competent to discharge it. The scope of the role is physical security - the protection of EdgeConneX sites, people and assets - and does not extend to cyber or information security.

This position sits within Global Security Programs and reports to the Senior Manager, Global Security Programs. Travel to sites for audit and training delivery is required from time to time.

Primary Responsibilities

• Own, maintain and version the corporate physical security standards framework, ensuring it is consistent, current and benchmarked against recognized standards
• Translate policy and regulatory requirements into clear, deliverable standards, procedures and control descriptions usable at site and regional level.
• Govern the document control, review cadence and change-management process for all security standards and procedures.
• Maintain the control library and map controls to the obligations they satisfy across customers, regulators and certification schemes.
• Own and operate the internal physical security assurance program - planning, scheduling and conducting control assessments and audits across sites and functions.
• Track findings, agree remediation with control owners, and verify closure; report assurance status into the quarterly ELT risk reporting cycle.
• Act as the single point of coordination for external and customer audits, maintaining audit-ready evidence and managing assessor engagement.
• Maintain the assurance evidence repository and the schedule of certifications, attestations and renewals.
• Own the physical security training and competency framework for site security personnel, defining the standards, systems and process competencies required for each security role on site.
• Deliver on-site training to security personnel on physical security standards, security systems (access control, CCTV, intrusion detection) and operational processes; maintain the learning-management capability, training records, refreshers and completion reporting.
• Run on-site security inductions, awareness and exercise activity, and verify personnel competency through assessment.
• Feed lessons from incidents, audits and exercises back into standards and training - the continuous improvement loop.
• Travel to sites for audit and training delivery; other duties as required.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate written policy into clear, deliverable standards and to evidence practice to customers, certifiers and leadership.
• Working knowledge of recognized physical security and resilience standards and how to translate them into deliverable controls at site and regional level.
• Ability to plan and run an internal assurance and audit program, tracking findings to closure and reporting status to leadership.
• Ability to deliver on-site training to security personnel on physical security standards, systems and processes, and to design competency frameworks, including records, refreshers and assessment.
• Sound judgement, discretion and the credibility to hold control owners and vendors to account.
• Strong organization and document-control discipline, with consistent, audit-ready record-keeping and evidence management.
• Able to direct staff and coordinate external assessors and training vendors in a fast-moving, distributed environment.

Experience/Education

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline (security, risk, compliance, business administration or similar), or equivalent vocational experience.
• Demonstrable experience designing and running an assurance, audit or compliance program in a physical security, risk or operational environment, with responsibility for managing findings to closure.
• Experience in the Data Center, critical infrastructure or technology sector, including familiarity with customer audit and right-to-audit regimes.
• Experience delivering on-site physical security training to personnel on standards, systems and processes, and designing competency frameworks, including records and assessment.
• Experience directing staff and managing vendors and external assessors.
• Relevant certification such as CPP, PSP, Lead Auditor (ISO 22301/27001), or equivalent assurance or training credentials (desirable).
• Comfortable working independently across shifting priorities, with clear ownership and consistent execution.

The Pay Range For This Role Is

120,000 - 140,000 USD per year(Herndon, VA)