Vice President, Physical Security

The preferred location for this role is either Denver, CO, or Sterling, VA. Qualified candidates based near other Edge Core locations, including Santa Clara, CA;
Reno, NV; and Mesa, AZ, will also be considered. This role requires an in-office presence four days per week and regular travel (up to 40%).

As Vice President, Physical Security, you will own the physical security program for a rapidly expanding portfolio of mission-critical data center campuses serving the world’s largest cloud and AI companies. This is a rare opportunity to lead every dimension of a national physical security program — strategy, standards, people, technology, contract guard services, and hyperscale customer compliance — at a company investing over $16.5 billion in development.

Unlike physical security roles at more mature enterprises, you will shape the program as the portfolio scales, influencing security design from greenfield construction through steady-state operations. Success in this role means harmonized security standards across all campuses, audit-ready customer compliance, a high-performing security organization and vendor ecosystem, and a technology platform that scales with the business.

• Own the enterprise physical security strategy, policies, and standards — including the Physical Security Basis of Design — across all data center campuses, harmonizing requirements to the strictest applicable customer standard.
• Lead, develop, and scale the physical security organization, including campus security directors, site security managers, and security systems engineers.
• Own the national contract guard force program, including vendor selection, statements of work, staffing models, post orders, SLAs, performance management, and quarterly business reviews.
• Own the physical security technology portfolio and roadmap — access control, video management, key/asset management, and biometric platforms (e.g., Genetec Security Center, Traka) — including integrator and maintenance vendor contracts.
• Lead hyperscale customer security compliance, including requirements harmonization across customer standards and leases, audit readiness, findings remediation, and direct customer engagement.
• Direct security requirements for new site development, construction, and customer fit-outs, ensuring security design standards are embedded from design through commissioning.
• Own the incident and crisis management program, including investigations, escalation protocols, after-action reviews, and executive-level reporting and metrics.
• Own physical security budgets across capex and opex, including forecasting, procurement strategy, contract negotiations, and total cost of ownership optimization.
• Drive enterprise risk assessments, threat monitoring, and continuous improvement of the security program as the portfolio grows into new markets.
• Security is a shared responsibility. All employees are required to comply with company security policies and procedures and to help protect company information, systems, and assets in the course of their daily work.

• 12+ years of progressive physical security experience, including 5+ years in senior leadership roles within data centers, critical infrastructure, or similarly high-security environments (required).
• Demonstrated success leading multi-site, multi-state physical security programs, including building and leading geographically distributed teams (required).
• Extensive experience managing large contract guard force programs, including vendor selection, SOW negotiation, SLAs, and performance management at portfolio scale (required).
• Deep knowledge of enterprise physical security technology — access control, video management, key/asset management, and biometrics; experience…