Data Center Security Leader - Ops & Strategy

Amazon Inc.; Clifton (TX); On-site; USD 72,000 - 126,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Data Services, Inc. in Texas is seeking a Data Center Security Manager to lead physical security across designated AZs, sites, or campuses.

You will assess existing programs, resolve gaps in the absence of SOPs, and translate strategy into actionable security actions. You will collaborate with HR, Legal, and global security teams, drive risk-based decisions, mentor security staff, and deliver security projects, with a focus on reducing misses and improving resilience.

Qualifications

• 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
• Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
• Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership
• Experience developing and managing a high-performing team

Responsibilities

• Assessing and improving security programs across assigned availability zones, sites, or campuses, including where strategy may not be defined
• Resolving difficult security problems in the absence of SOPs and adapting plans to changing scenarios
• Contributing to developing strategic goals for the cluster with potential 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 metrics, and requesting corrective actions from vendors
• Contributing to risk and security management by making trade-off decisions and providing recommendations
• Creating, optimizing, and updating SOPs to stay aligned with team strategy
• Providing support for investigative actions with HR, Legal, global security, and law enforcement
• Participating in business continuity/resilience planning and deployment
• Owning COEs, writing action items and resolving them
• Delivering QBR inputs and contributing to PR/FAQs and narratives
• Partnering with peers and internal teams to meet objectives
• Communicating proactive measures that reduce security misses and create mitigation plans
• Recruiting, interviewing, and mentoring

Skills

Program security

Security management

Data-driven improvements

Team leadership

Tools

AI

Excel

Program management tools

Job description

Amazon Data Services, Inc. in Texas is seeking a Data Center Security Manager to lead physical security across designated AZs, sites, or campuses.

You will assess existing programs, resolve gaps in the absence of SOPs, and translate strategy into actionable security actions. You will collaborate with HR, Legal, and global security teams, drive risk-based decisions, mentor security staff, and deliver security projects, with a focus on reducing misses and improving resilience.