VP, AI-Powered Platform Architecture & Security

Equinix; New York (NY); On-site; USD 300,000 - 360,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Assistance Program

Health Insurance

PTO & Holidays

Job summary

Equinix seeks a visionary leader to drive Architecture, Security Platform strategy and AI-native product advancement. You will set standards, build security talent, and partner with Product, Engineering, Infrastructure, and Security to accelerate innovation and platform growth.

Reporting to the Chief Product Officer, you will oversee sovereign security platforms, API governance, and cloud-native practices while guiding large-scale organizational change and strategic portfolio alignment.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree required in CS, engineering or related technical field.
• 15+ years of software engineering and technology leadership experience.
• Networking domain knowledge essential.

Responsibilities

• Lead incubation of AI-powered security applications and services across L7 and application security domains.
• Build agile engineering capabilities that rapidly assess, prototype, and scale emerging AI market opportunities.
• Drive innovation in intelligent traffic management, endpoint routing, and secure application connectivity.
• Develop revenue-generating adjacencies with Fabric and security platform offerings.
• Identify and accelerate new AI-driven product opportunities that strengthen Equinix's competitive differentiation.
• Own the strategy and roadmap for sovereign security platforms supporting trusted AI, data sovereignty, and regulated workloads.
• Build security-attested automation, certification, and compliance capabilities for enterprise AI deployments.
• Drive industry partnerships and standards participation to position Equinix as a leader in trusted AI.
• Identify and scale new market opportunities in secure AI, confidential computing, and sovereign cloud services.
• Establish and govern architecture standards, frameworks, and engineering practices across product areas.
• Drive engineering maturity through capability assessments, coaching, and continuous improvement.
• Lead adoption of cloud-native, agile, DevSecOps, and quality engineering practices while ensuring security and compliance.
• Define long-term technology strategy and platform roadmaps aligned to business priorities.
• Govern architectural risk, technical debt, and platform sustainability across the portfolio.
• Drive engineering performance through measurable outcomes, governance frameworks, and continuous improvement.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives to increase productivity, quality, reliability and efficiency.

Skills

Networking

Software architecture

Leadership

Cloud-native

DevSecOps

Security

Education

Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related technical field

Job description

Equinix seeks a visionary leader to drive Architecture, Security Platform strategy and AI-native product advancement. You will set standards, build security talent, and partner with Product, Engineering, Infrastructure, and Security to accelerate innovation and platform growth.

Reporting to the Chief Product Officer, you will oversee sovereign security platforms, API governance, and cloud-native practices while guiding large-scale organizational change and strategic portfolio alignment.