Data Center Security Leader: Strategy & Ops

Amazon Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 72,000 - 126,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon's AWS Infrastructure Services is seeking an exceptional Data Center Security Manager who can assess and improve security programs across distributed sites, resolve complex problems without SOPs, and drive strategic security initiatives at the cluster level.

You will lead security projects, ensure policy compliance, and collaborate with HR, Legal, and global security teams to mitigate risks and support business continuity. A dynamic, ambiguity-tolerant leader will thrive here.

Qualifications

• Experience acting as a Program Security Officer, Security Specialist, or Security Manager.
• Experience using data and metrics to 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 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

Skills

Program Security Officer

Security Manager

Data-driven decisions

Leadership

Tools

Excel

Program management tools

AI fluency

Job description

Amazon's AWS Infrastructure Services is seeking an exceptional Data Center Security Manager who can assess and improve security programs across distributed sites, resolve complex problems without SOPs, and drive strategic security initiatives at the cluster level.

You will lead security projects, ensure policy compliance, and collaborate with HR, Legal, and global security teams to mitigate risks and support business continuity. A dynamic, ambiguity-tolerant leader will thrive here.