Legal Counsel

Your role

Primarily, you will be responsible for drafting, negotiating and advising the business with respect to agreements for data center space and ancillary services between Digital and its strategic customers.  This position would report to the leader (Sr. Director) of the Legal Commercial EMEA team, which also includes several more legal counsels and paralegals.

As a Legal Counsel, you should be able to offer internal clients with sound advice on risks, legal terms and negotiation strategy with respect to customer transactions for data center space and ancillary services. The role anticipates the ability to take ownership of increasingly complex local and global transactions from a legal perspective, with discernment to appropriately escalate legal risks.

What you’ll need

• Law degree (university) 
• Minimum of 6 years of relevant substantive legal experience (law firm and/or in house legal department). 
• Experience with technology-related service agreements preferred, and experience with data center leases, licenses, service agreements and other supplier agreements strongly preferred.
• Possesses strong proficiency in both verbal and written English and Dutch
• Willingness and ability to work with and coordinate activities among a large number of individuals in various departments around Digital Realty’s global footprint, with a focus on EMEA.
• Solid analytical, problem-solving and critical-thinking skills.
• Comfortable with balancing multiple, competing priorities and changes in scope/direction.
• Self-starter, with the ability to follow through on matters and bring them to resolution in a timely and reasonable manner.
• Detail oriented, friendly, approachable.

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.

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. This is an exciting time to join our business so apply now and make your mark on our future.