Data Center Physical Security Manager, DC Security Amer-Southwest

About the role

AWS is seeking a Data Center Physical Security Manager to oversee physical security programs across assigned availability zones, sites, or campuses. The role requires assessing and improving existing security programs, resolving difficult security problems, contributing to strategic goals, and delivering security operations projects.

Responsibilities

• Assessing and improving existing security programs across assigned availability zones, sites, or campuses, including where strategy and priorities may not be defined
• Resolving difficult security problems in the absence of SOPs and adapting operational plans to changing security scenarios
• Contributing to developing strategic goals for the cluster, with work that may have regional impact
• Delivering security ops projects at the cluster level or leading a security project team
• Ensuring security program compliance with AWS security policies and procedures
• Assessing vendor compliance, defining security success metrics, and requesting corrective actions from vendor management teams
• Contributing to risk and security management by making difficult trade-off decisions and providing recommendations
• Creating, optimizing, and eliminating SOPs to ensure processes remain relevant and align with team strategy
• Providing support for investigative actions in collaboration with HR, Legal, global security team, and law enforcement agencies
• Participating in business continuity/resilience planning, development, and deployment
• Owning COEs, including writing action items and resolving them
• Delivering QBR inputs and participating in writing PR/FAQs and other narratives (1-pagers, 6-pagers)
• Partnering with peers and internal teams to develop solutions that help the AZ/campus/cluster meet objectives
• Communicating proactive measures that reduce security misses and identify issues early; creating mitigation plans when problems arise
• Recruiting, interviewing, and beginning to mentor

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will have experience working on physical security design and implementation of Access Control/Intrusion Detection and CCTV Surveillance systems. Preferred qualifications include experience acting as a Program Security Officer, Security Specialist, or Security Manager with duties including interpreting and implementing requirements within the personnel, industrial, and physical security disciplines and overseeing security operations.