Physical Security Engineering Manager
Allied Universal · Secaucus, NJ · Today
On-siteEngineering$125k/yrFull-time
Responsibilities
- Manage, mentor and schedule a small team of field support pre and post engineers, handle performance reviews, career development and resource allocation.
- Cook up and execute infrastructure and systems projects across network, video, database and security domains (physical security, access control, CCTV, intrusion detection, and logical/security appliances).
- Coordinate with Installation teams on the execution and delivery of infrastructure and systems projects across network, video, database and security domains (physical security, access control, CCTV, intrusion detection, and logical/security appliances).
- Serve as the primary customer-facing technical escalation, ensuring on-time, compliant project execution while providing strong people leadership and fostering effective cross-functional and client partnerships.
Qualifications (must Have)
- A high school diploma or equivalent.
- Minimum of five (5) years of management or supervisory experience.
- Minimum of five (5) years hands-on experience with servers and enterprise network infrastructure with three (3) years managing projects or teams.
- Extensive experience with relational databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL) including performance tuning, backup/recovery and HA.
- Strong customer-facing experience, including presenting technical content to non-technical stakeholders and managing clear, timely incident communications.
- Demonstrated project management capability, including managing multiple projects while overseeing schedules, risks, scope, and vendor deliverables.
- Ability to manage competing priorities in a dynamic, team-oriented environment while developing trusted, collaborative relationships across internal teams, vendors, and executive-level clients.
Preferred Qualifications (nice To Have)
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology or related field.
- Supervisory experience in construction or operations.
- PMP, PRINCE2, or equivalent project management certification.
- Network certifications (CCNA/CCNP/CCDA), security certifications (CISSP, CISM, CompTIA Security+), database certifications (Oracle, Microsoft, PostgreSQL) and/or AV certifications (CTS).
- Experience with cloud networking, cloud-hosted databases and cloud security (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Experience with ITSM/incident management tools (ServiceNow, Jira) and various physical security integration platforms.
Benefits
- Salary: $100,00 - $125,000 annually + 12% bonus potential.
- Medical, dental, vision, retirement plan, basic life, AD&D, and disability insurance.
- Eight paid holidays annually, five sick days, and four personal days.
- Vacation time is offered at an accrual rate of 3.08 hours biweekly. Unused vacation is only paid out where required by law.