Vice President of Product Architecture & Security Platforms, Equinix
Digital infrastructure company
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Digital infrastructure company
1001+ employees
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1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide finance, manufacturing, transport, government, and healthcare organizations a cloud-first world.
Role
Who you are
- Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related technical field
- 15+ years of experience in software engineering and technology leadership roles at both startups and mid to large complex enterprise app companies Proven record of launching and building early security app or security platform-like products
- Networking domain knowledge essential as is the ability to lead a team of network architects
- Strategic thinker with a customer-centric mindset, passion for innovation, entrepreneurial drive and the ability to navigate ambiguity
- Deep understanding of emerging technologies, and product development
- Deep expertise in modern software engineering practices across DevSecOps, NetOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), cloud-native architecture, and agile methodologies
- Experience driving architectural standardization across a federated or product-aligned technology organization
- Strong business acumen with the ability to influence and partner cross-functionally, including product, security, data, and infrastructure teams
- Exceptional communication and organizational change skills; able to engage at all levels from executive leadership to engineers
What the job involves
- Reporting to the Chief Product Officer, the Vice President, Product Architecture & Security Platform serves as a critical catalyst for technology transformation, platform modernization, and strategic differentiation
- The VP is a key member of the Global Product senior leadership team responsible for defining and driving the architecture, security, and advanced software platform strategy that enables the company's next generation of digital products and services
- The VP will oversee three strategic areas:
- Architectural leadership and incubation of Network and Security Platform capabilities
- Creation and scaling of an AI-native Product Security and Application Security engineering organization
- Development of Layer 7 networking applications and agentic AI capabilities that create new customer-facing software and platform opportunities
- Combining deep technical expertise with strong business and organizational leadership, this executive will establish architecture standards, build critical security talent and capabilities, and partner across Product, Engineering, Infrastructure, and Information Security teams to accelerate innovation, strengthen the company's security posture, and unlock higher-value software growth opportunities
- AI software incubation for Security Applications
- 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
- Sovereign security platforms
- 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 that enable enterprise AI training, fine-tuning, and inference deployments
- Drive industry partnerships and standards participation to position Equinix as a leader in trusted AI and sovereign infrastructure ecosystems
- Identify and scale new market opportunities in secure AI, confidential computing, and sovereign cloud services
- Architecture leader for Global Products
- 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
- Engineering performance, governance and continuous improvement
- Drive engineering performance through measurable outcomes, operational metrics, and delivery excellence
- Establish governance frameworks for technology investments, risk mitigation, and architectural compliance
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives that increase engineering productivity, quality, reliability, and efficiency
- Develop data-driven insights and accountability mechanisms to optimize organizational performance and execution
- Align engineering operations and investments with business strategy, customer needs, and growth objectives
- Programmable Interfaces (API) roadmap
- Own the strategy, architecture, and roadmap for APIs related to programmable infrastructure services
- Establish API governance, security, and lifecycle standards across the portfolio
- Enable customer automation and self-service through scalable, reliable, and developer-friendly interfaces
- Drive innovation in network, security, and infrastructure programmability to accelerate platform adoption. Expand ecosystem partnerships and developer engagement to grow platform consumption and revenue
- Visionary Platform Builder: Creates and delivers 0-to-1 platform capabilities in Layer 7, security, and application security, inspiring teams to pursue bold technical visions that drive strategic business value
- Architectural Excellence & Technical Leadership: Establishes enterprise architecture principles, frameworks, and standards while teaching and scaling architectural capability across leaders, teams, and domains
- Systems Thinker with Deep Technical Judgment : Anticipates complex dependencies, failure modes, and security risks to design resilient, scalable, and secure software services
- Transformational Enterprise Leader: Leads large-scale technology and organizational change, aligning strategy, people, processes, and platforms to deliver measurable business outcomes
- Enterprise Influencer & Global Collaborator: Builds alignment across Product, Engineering, Infrastructure, and Security organizations, leading effectively through influence in highly matrixed, global environments
- Talent Multiplier & Innovation Catalyst: Develops exceptional technical leaders, fosters a culture of experimentation and continuous learning, and creates the conditions for innovation to thrive at scale
Our take
Equinix is a veteran player in the digital infrastructure market, connecting industry-leading organizations in finance, manufacturing, retail, transportation, government, healthcare, and education.
The company provides a range of services within the categories of digital, support, data center, and interconnection, with capabilities including, for example, simplifying hybrid cloud deployments or securing on-site deployments. It has an extensive range of partners, granting its clients access to a vast range of industry-leading technologies atop its own offerings.
With a wide global presence, Equinix has secured a path to continued success by its ability to keep abreast of developments in the space. The company is comfortably positioned to remain a robust and leading player across multiple growth avenues and can be expected to make more smart developments and partnerships in the future.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Redwood Shores, Redwood City, CA
Leadership
Adaire Fox-Martin
(CEO & President)Prior to becoming CEO of Equinix in 2024, Adaire spent nearly 3 years at Google in various roles, including Head of Google Ireland and President of Google Cloud Go to Market. She also spent nearly 14 years at SAP and over 18 years at Oracle Corporation.
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