Sr. Manager, Physical Security Operations

About Cipher Digital

We are an industrial-scale data center construction and operations company. We allocate data center opportunities between bitcoin mining and other high performance computing services, such as AI. We continue to develop our pipeline of power capacity at high quality data center sites, either for bitcoin mining or HPC.Our best-in-class management team leverages expertise from the technology, fintech, energy, and finance domains, as well as deep experience related to cryptocurrencies and blockchain.

Design decides what gets built and integration proves it works, but operations is where a security program is actually lived. The Sr. Manager, Physical Security Operations owns the longest phase of the lifecycle: running the physical security program at every Cipher campus once systems are accepted, and keeping posture, performance, and customer commitments intact from that day forward.

Physical security at Cipher is led by three senior managers, each owning one phase of a project’s life: the Design lead owns the security design, the Integration lead owns installation, commissioning, and turnover, and the Operations lead owns the program once it is live.

Our campuses run in a hybrid construction-and-operations state for years before they are fully built out, so this is not a steady-state-only job. You will run a live, customer-facing security program on sites where construction is still underway, continuing long after turnover, and building the operating model as the portfolio grows.

You own the program, and the embedded Site Security Manager at each campus runs it day to day under your direction. Your job is to set the standard every site follows, carry the commercial and compliance obligations behind it, and build a team and an operating model that scale.

This is an individual contributor role at the outset, with no Cipher direct reports until you hire a site operations manager as the portfolio grows.

• Own physical security operations across the portfolio: posture, day-to-day performance, and incidents, around the clock, from turnover through steady state, including the multi-year period in which campuses operate while construction continues.
• Set and maintain the operating standard every site follows. Post orders, SOPs, access and visitor management, patrol and shift procedures, and security incident response, standardized at the program level and adapted to each site.
• Own the security operations budget, including forecasting, guard force and vendor spend, cost allocation, change orders, and program efficiency as the portfolio scales.

• Accept turnover from the Integration lead. Partner with that role to confirm that systems, documentation, and site team readiness are genuinely in place before the program transfers and say so plainly when a site is not ready.
• Own the program from the moment of acceptance: operational performance, service levels, and the security posture that follows.
• Close the feedback loop. Feed operational requirements and lessons learned back to the Design lead so future reference designs reflect what it actually takes to run a site.

• Build the team as the portfolio grows, starting with hiring a site operations manager to lead day-to-day execution across campuses, then developing the bench and planning for succession.
• Direct embedded site security personnel
  , including the Site Security Manager at each campus, who are contractor employees rather than Cipher employees. Set functional direction, performance expectations, and standards, while working through the contractor’s…