Senior Manager, Infrastructure Operations and Compliance

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Senior Manager to lead a unified Infrastructure Operations function spanning 750+ data center sites across 125+ countries. The leader will ensure 24x7 operational availability of the network infrastructure through incident response, hardware break-fix, circuit management, and physical hardware lifecycle operations.

You will build talent, own decommissioning lifecycle, maintain audit readiness for SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, and ISMAP, and drive

Qualifications

• Senior infrastructure operations leader with managing distributed teams.
• Experience delivering 24x7 network availability and incident response.
• Strong knowledge of SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, and compliance audits.
• Proven track record implementing automation and AI-assisted tooling.

Responsibilities

• Lead two teams: Operations and Security & Compliance.
• Define goals, develop talent, and ensure shared SLAs.
• Manage end-to-end decommissioning lifecycle and ITAD processes.
• Maintain audit readiness and executive-level relationships with GRC.
• Drive automation to reduce manual operational burden.

Skills

Infrastructure leadership

Data center operations

Network architecture

Compliance & audits

Incident response

Vendor management

Automation & AI tooling

Tools

Automation tooling

Job description

About Us

At the company, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. the company protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by the company all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. the company was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.

At the company, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in.

Available Locations: AustinPosition Overview

the company is looking for a Senior Manager to lead a unified Infrastructure Operations function spanning physical network reliability, operational security, and global regulatory compliance across 750+ data center sites in 125+ countries. The leader in this role ensures 24x7 operational availability of the company’s network infrastructure through incident response, hardware break-fix, circuit management, and physical hardware lifecycle operations. This leader also owns physical access control policy and administration, periodic access reviews, and evidence-based compliance delivery across SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, ISMAP, and IRAP.

You will lead two teams, setting organizational direction, building talent, and being accountable for outcomes across the full lifecycle of the company’s physical infrastructure: from how hardware is deployed and maintained, to how access is controlled and reviewed, to how assets are securely retired and evidenced for audit. The breadth of this scope demands a leader who can hold the org-level tensions, speed versus rigor, global scale versus precise detail, partner dependency versus uncompromising standards, without losing either end.

You will bring credibility across both dimensions of this role. On the infrastructure side, a strong grasp of data center colocation environments, network architecture, and hardware operations as well as the judgment to lead managers and teams who live in that world every day. On the compliance side, the organizational instinct to maintain audit readiness continuously, not just at cycle time, and the stakeholder fluency to navigate relationships with GRC, government auditors, and strategic global partners. Above all, you will bring a bias toward building smarter processes, better tooling, and AI-assisted operations that multiply your team’s capacity as the company’s footprint continues to grow.

What You’ll Do

Team Leadership

• Lead two teams, the Operations team and the Security and Compliance team.

• Set goals, develop talent, and build a culture of operational excellence and compliance-consciousness across both functions

• Hold both teams to shared SLAs and quality standards, balancing the urgency of 24x7 incident response with the rigor of compliance audit cycles

• Serve as the escalation point for cross-team issues, complex vendor negotiations, and decisions that touch both operational and regulatory domains

Unified Decommissioning Lifecycle

• Own the end-to-end DECOM process as a single, governed workflow: physical collections and unracking, secure asset destruction with CoD issuance (ITAD vendor management), serial number verification, compliance evidence filing, and records closure

• Eliminate the current handoff gap between Maintain’s physical operations and DCSC’s compliance oversight building a single, auditable pipeline from "decom triggered" to "evidence archived".

• Drive ITAD vendor relationships, escalation paths, and contractual SLAs for asset destruction across all regions (APAC, EMEA, NASA, South America)

• Maintain audit-readiness of decommissioning records for SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, and FedRAMP control requirements

Maintain Team Operational Accountability

• Accountable for 24x7 incident response coverage across all the company locations: carrier outages, DC facility issues, hardware degradation, and power/temperature events.

• Oversee hardware break-fix operations including coordination with Metro Technicians, third-party repair vendors and remote contractors.

• Drive maturity in circuit decommissioning, RMA management, and physical collections processes

• Ensure on-call schedules, handover protocols, and incident SLAs are consistently met across APAC, EMEA, and NASA shifts.

DCSC Compliance & Access Control Accountability

• Accountable for quarterly and monthly access review cycles (QAR/MAR) across 750+ global data center sites covering SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, FedRAMP Moderate/High, ISMAP, and IRAP frameworks

• Own the physical access provisioning and deprovisioning function, including SLA adherence and ACL integrity

• Serve as the senior owner of the team’s automation initiatives

• Maintain executive-level relationships with GRC leads across all active compliance frameworks; be the accountable voice for DCSC’s control obligations in audit conversations

• Represent DCSC at Monthly Business Reviews and executive infrastructure health checks

Automation & Operational Efficiency

• Drive a meaningful reduction in manual operational burden across both teams identifying and prioritizing automation opportunities in access reviews, decommissioning evidence collection, portal data extraction, and incident triage

• Sponsor and guide the development of internal tooling (DCSC Portal, automation scripts, AI-assisted workflows) that multiplies team capacity without proportional headcount growth

• Evaluate and adopt AI tooling for repetitive operational tasks, documentation acceleration, root-cause analysis, and compliance evidence generation.

Who You Are

An experienced infrastructure operations leader. You have managed engineering teams responsible for large-scale, globally distributed physical or network infrastructure. You know how to hold a team accountable to 24x7 operational standards while also driving longer-horizon strategic work. You don't lose sight of the incident queue while building the roadmap.

Comfortable at the compliance/operations intersection. You don't need to be a GRC expert, but you understand why physical access controls matter for SOC 2 and FedRAMP, why the decommissioning chain of custody is an audit control, and why a missed quarterly access review has real consequences. You approach compliance not as overhead but as a non-negotiable quality dimension of operational work.

You ensure the teams you're inheriting are operationally capable but structurally manual. You see automation as a force multiplier and have a track record of reducing operational toil through