[Hiring] Senior Manager, Physical Security Design @Cipher Digital

Role Description

This role owns the physical security design program end to end — translating threat and risk into a coherent, standardized, buildable design, and staying engaged through construction administration and record documentation so that what gets built matches design intent.

You will set the reference designs and standards our delivery teams and integrators build against, and you will own the design package to a level of completeness that lets integrators build directly from it, with no integrator-produced drawings and no shop drawings.

This is an individual contributor role at the outset, with the scope to build and lead a design team as Cipher grows.

Core Responsibilities

• DESIGN STANDARDS & REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE
  • Develop and maintain the corporate physical security design standards, reference designs, and technical guidelines that drive consistency and repeatability across the portfolio.
  • Lead the technology strategy: platform and device standardization and sequences of operation (SOO), developed in partnership with the digital security and cybersecurity engineering functions.
  • Incorporate operational requirements and lessons learned from the Operations lead into the design standards.
• OWNERSHIP OF THE DESIGN PACKAGE
  • Own the physical security design lifecycle from concept and basis of design, through construction administration and record documentation.
  • Drive consistent, on-time production of every security design package handed to Construction.
  • Hold every design package to a standard of completeness and accuracy that lets integrators build directly from it.
  • Translate threat and vulnerability assessments into layered security designs appropriate to a critical-infrastructure environment.
• CROSS-DISCIPLINE COORDINATION & DESIGN REVIEW
  • Own the security scope of coordination with the architectural, civil, structural, MEP, telecommunications, and IT/network engineering disciplines.
  • Run formal design reviews at each milestone (SD, DD, CD).
  • Provide cost and constructability input to project estimates.
• CONSTRUCTION ADMINISTRATION & RECORD DOCUMENTATION
  • Direct design consultants and EORs through CA services.
  • Own RFI resolution and incorporation.
  • Own final record and as-built documentation.
• CONSULTANT & VENDOR LEADERSHIP
  • Select, direct, and hold accountable the external design consultants, EORs, and specialty vendors.
  • Serve as the senior physical security design authority for the organization.

Qualifications

• Eight or more years in physical and electronic security systems (ESS).
• A proven track record turning over complex ESS designs on schedule.
• Demonstrated depth in access control, intrusion detection, video management, and emergency communications.
• Experience coordinating security design with civil, architectural, electrical, and telecommunications disciplines.
• Experience running or directing construction administration for ESS scopes of work.
• Working fluency with network and cybersecurity considerations of modern security systems.
• Working fluency with codes and standards that govern security design.
• Comfort in tools of design coordination and review, such as Revit, AutoCAD, and Bluebeam.
• Working knowledge of Genetec or equivalent platforms.
• Demonstrated leadership across teams and through external partners.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills with executive leadership and customers.

Requirements

• Design experience in data center, mission-critical, or other critical-infrastructure construction.
• Experience designing to customer- or tenant-imposed physical security standards.
• Familiarity with contractual security frameworks such as ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II.
• CPP, PSP, CSPM, or PMP certification.

EDUCATION

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, architecture, security management, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Core Competencies

• Standardization instinct.
• Cross-discipline credibility.
• Clean role boundaries.
• Leadership of external teams.
• Executive communication.
• Delivery under pressure.
• Broad collaboration.

How This Role Fits

This role sits in the Physical Security group of Cipher Digital’s converged security organization, which brings physical and information security together under a single leadership structure.

Location, Travel, and Working Conditions

This position is remote. Travel runs up to approximately 25%, driven by project needs.

This role requires periodic standing and walking across large data center campuses and around active construction areas.

Benefits

• 401K Retirement Plan with match
• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
• Life and Disability Insurance
• And other perks!