Data Center Security Manager, AMER Southwest

Job :  | Amazon Data Services, Inc.

AWS is seeking an exceptional Data Center Security Manager with a proven track record of assessing and improving security programs, strong project management experience, comprehensive security program knowledge, and deep expertise in resolving difficult security problems in ambiguous environments.

As a Data Center Security Manager at AWS, you will be the primary point of contact for physical security posture across your assigned availability zones, sites, or campuses. You will assess and improve existing security programs - including in areas where security tasks, strategy, and priorities may not yet be defined.

You will resolve difficult security problems in the absence of SOPs, contribute to developing strategic goals for your cluster, and deliver security operations projects at the cluster level or lead a security project team. You must be able to operate with limited guidance, adapt operational plans to difficult and changing security scenarios, make tradeoffs between time, quality, and resources, and communicate clearly and compellingly across an increasing diversity of

• 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 Q  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

AWS Infrastructure Services (AIS) owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we're the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain - and we're looking for talented people who want to help.

You'll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You'll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you'll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you…