Data Center Security Specialist

• 1 year of experience working in a standards-based professional work environment
• 1 year of experience collecting, analyzing, and utilizing data to drive process and system improvement, and effect quality assurance
• 1 year of experience with Microsoft Office tools

Job summary
Amazon Web Services (AWS) serves customers and developers who rely on storage, compute, and our other service capabilities. Our customers trust us to handle their data with air-tight security measures, which is something that we guarantee.

We are looking for a Data Center Security Specialist to join our expanding Data Center Operations team. Our ideal candidate is detail-oriented, innovative, and professional. They have a passion for delighting customers, teamwork, and continuous improvement. The Data Center Security Specialist role encompasses oversight of contract employee deliverables and collaboration with Data Center Managers in order to devise security strategies, achieve financial targets, and to improve the overall operational security within our Data Centers. They will report to the Area Security Manager responsible for their Data Center Campus.

Key job responsibilities

• Interface with and assist in mobilizing vendors involved in system repairs and new security construction
• Coordinate the activities of a professional contract guard force
• Oversee individual security vendor deliverables, track service delivery and request corrective actions from vendors as needed
• Foster working relationships to educate data center stakeholders on false alarm reductions
• Extract metrics and observe improvements by looking at and analyzing data
• Verify Data Center security programs are delivered to meet defined global security standards
• Develop strategies for improving electronic surveillance and access controls
• Draft reports and prepare presentations on the status of physical security operations
• Collaborate with managers in writing and implementing security processes and procedures
• Serve as a customer advocate by identifying security-related opportunities and crafting innovative solutions that maintain uncompromising security standards
• Be able to travel between local sites as needed, up to 50% of the workweek

By applying to this role you are open to openings at our Manassas, Chantilly, Ashburn, and Herndon VA facilities.

About the team
Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

• Possess excellent verbal and written communication skills
• 1 year working in an operations, physical security or equivalent environment
• 2 years of experience collecting, analyzing, and utilizing data
• Participated in an Integrated Project Team or served as part of team to complete a general project -2 years of experience compiling reports
• 1 years of demonstrated leadership skills
• 1 years of incident response & management experience
• 3 years of experience with Microsoft Office tools
• Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role
• Meets/exceeds Amazon’s functional/technical depth and complexity

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.