Senior Manager, Cyber Security Operations Center

Position Title

JOB DESCRIPTION

Senior Manager, Cyber Security Operations Center (SOC)

Location:

Ashburn, VA / Dallas, TX / Austin, TX / Denver, CO (Hybrid)

Your role

The Senior Manager, Cyber Security Operations Center (SOC) is a hands‑on technical and people leader responsible for overseeing 24/7 global security monitoring, threat detection, and incident response across Digital Realty’s IT, OT, cloud, and product platform environments. This role owns real‑time situational awareness, rapid containment of cyber threats, and continuous improvement of cyber defense capabilities.

This leader drives operational excellence within a high‑tempo global SOC, balancing decisive incident response with long‑term detection engineering, automation, and program maturity while building and mentoring a world‑class security operations team.

What You’ll Do

• Lead day‑to‑day operations of a 24x7 global SOC using follow‑the‑sun and fusion center operational models.
• Oversee real‑time monitoring, triage, escalation, and resolution of security events across enterprise IT, OT, cloud, and edge platforms.
• Direct major cyber incident response efforts end‑to‑end, coordinating containment, eradication, recovery, and post‑incident analysis.
• Own and continuously optimize SOC tooling including SIEM, SOAR, EDR/MDE, NDR, vulnerability management, and case management platforms.
• Drive detection engineering, threat hunting, and intelligence integration to improve alert quality and adversary visibility.
• Partner cross‑functionally with IT, OT, Product, Legal, Compliance, Risk, and Operations during high‑impact incidents.
• Own SOC KPIs including MTTD, MTTR, detection coverage, and alert fidelity, reporting outcomes to executive leadership.
• Lead the SOC technology modernization roadmap including automation, enrichment, and machine‑assisted detection capabilities.
  
  

What You’ll Need

• 8–12+ years of cybersecurity experience with at least 5 years in security operations or incident response leadership roles.
• Deep technical expertise across SIEM/SOAR, EDR, NDR, cloud security monitoring, and log analytics platforms.
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft security tools and ecosystem.
• Proven experience managing significant cyber incidents in complex, global environments.
• Solid understanding of IT, OT, and cloud architectures and operational risk.
• Experience aligning SOC operations with regulatory and compliance frameworks including NIST, ISO 27001, SOC 2, NIS2, DORA, PCI, SOX, and GDPR.
• Demonstrated success building, scaling, and mentoring high‑performing global security teams.
• Professional certifications such as CISSP, CISM, or GIAC strongly preferred.
  
  

A Bit About Us

Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company’s global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx®) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 25+ countries on six continents.

To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

A Bit About Our Team

IT

Our IT team is at the heart of our business. We develop infrastructures, design and build networks, support servers and provide the first line of support by delivering rich connectivity for our customers. With new data centers coming online all the time, it’s a rapidly changing technical environment so our team is always ready to innovate and take the lead on projects. We constantly develop, deploy and support vital networks and data services that drive business performance and improve life for customers around the globe.

What We Can Offer You

Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers.

Join us and you’ll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team, you’ll get to work with people from different business areas, challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. We’ll also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us.

Apply today, take charge of your career and grow your talents with us.

Health and Safety

Safety isn't just a priority here at Digital; it's critical to everything we do. Safeguarding lives, protecting assets, and securing data aren't just ideals — they're essential pillars of our commitment to excellence for our people, our partners and our customers. We have a culture of care where every member of Team Digital embraces a relentless pursuit of working safely across Digital Realty. Together we are Safely Powering Progress.

Our Compensation Philosophy

Digital Realty offers its employees a highly competitive compensation package, excellent benefits, and an environment that recognizes and rewards your contributions. Central to our compensation philosophy is rewarding our employees for achieving the values and objectives aligned to the company's overall goals and values.

Compensation Range & Benefits

Our published pay ranges reflect the minimum and maximum target for new hire pay for the full‑time position determined by role, level, and geographical location. Individual pay is based on additional factors including but not limited to job‑related skills, experience, and relevant education and/or training. Moreover, an employee’s total compensation package varies by role and may include salary, cash bonus or commissions, and equity awards not quantified below.

Compensation range: $135,000 to $165,000. This compensation range represents the Company’s good faith belief as to what it will pay as a base salary for this position at the time of this posting.

Benefits: For this role, benefits include medical, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, 401k match, disability benefits, wellness and education benefits, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off, holidays, and more.