What are the responsibilities and job description for the Data Center Physical Security Manager, DC Security Amer-West position at Amazon?
DESCRIPTION
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.
As a Data Center Security Manager you will be tasked with driving operational security excellence in several separate facilities located within a short driving distance. Your constant vigilance will discover physical security gaps and shortcomings which you will drive to fix immediately. You will interface and direct vendors involved in new security construction, repairs, daily security operations and patrols, and planning. You will extract metrics and observe improvements by looking at hard data. You will make suggestions on improving electronic surveillance and access controls. You will direct efforts to educate data center occupants on false alarm reductions. You will write and implement security process and procedures. Your position will require you to write reports, create presentations and communicate with management on the status of physical security operations.
Key job responsibilities
- Ability to walk a facility and observe security gaps in physical barriers, security officer procedure, policies, surveillance equipment, and alarm points
- Drive campaigns to reduce nuisance alarms
- Experience with workflow ticketing and extraction of performance metrics
- Investigate accidents, thefts, disturbances, discrepancies
- Oversee physical security sub contractors that provide guards, electronic security systems, door construction, door repair, fencing, and access controls
- Distill overarching security strategy into daily tactics to reach management goals
- Oversee security construction projects
- Teach others the proper security processes and methods
- Due to the nature of the GovCloud region, this position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen or equivalent status.
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.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Boardman, OR, USA
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 3 years overseeing security operations and personnel
- 2 years of experience with Microsoft Office tools.
- 2 years of experience in security patrolling and reporting
- 2 years of experience working with security vendors and contractors
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 1 years of experience in access control and video surveillance software applications (eg. LENEL or C-cure)
- 2 years of experience working in a facility and observing security gaps in physical barriers, security officer procedure, policies, surveillance equipment, and alarm points.
- 1 years of experience driving campaigns to reduce nuisance alarms.
- 1 years of experience working with workflow ticketing and extraction of performance metrics.
- 1 years of experience investigating accidents, thefts, disturbances, discrepancies.
- 2 years of experience writing detailed reports.
- 2 years of experience influencing others in helping you achieve your security excellence goals in a corporate environment.
- 3 years of experience with excellent verbal and written communications skills in a professional work setting.
- 2 years of overseeing security sub contractors that provide guards, electronic security systems, door construction, door repair, fencing, and access controls.
- 1 years of experience overseeing security construction projects.
- Must be able to travel between local locations.
- 1 years of experience teaching others the proper security processes and methods.
- Detailed and data driven experiences that exemplify Amazons Leadership Principle
- Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role
- Meets/exceeds Amazon’s functional/technical depth and complexity for this role
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.
