Data Center Security Manager

Amazon Web Services (AWS) serves customers and developers all over the world who rely on storage, compute, and other services that power Amazons consumer, digital and AWS businesses. Our customers trust us to handle their data with air-tight security. Customer data security is a given and a guarantee for our businesses. AWS Infrastructure team is looking for a detail-oriented, experienced and professional Cluster Security Manager. You will have experience managing security of large critical infrastructure installations, ideally data centers. You will have professional experience managing people with varying skill sets, devising strategies, creating and tracking and budgets, sponsoring projects, and driving improvements of our security readiness. You will report to the Multi-Cluster Security Manager responsible for your area.

Key job responsibilities:

• Your responsibilities include maintaining an extensive knowledge of complex industry trends, current security issues and security technology, and the risks and threats that could impact the Data Centers; provide leadership and best practices on security policy and practices; provide leadership, advice, and guidance to Control Center staff in achieving current and long-range strategic program objectives; serve as staff support to security management and assist in conducting investigations of significant threats and/or the loss or misappropriation of assets; and liaise with other Amazon, AWS and external security organizations to ensure optimal buy-in for their successful implementation.
• You will routinely collaborate with AWS Data Center Security Managers and other regional security operations personnel to ensure that the control center under your supervision provides a safe and secure environment and safeguards the vital information within.
• You will be required to provide periodic performance, program and strategic roadmap briefings to AWS senior leaders. The ideal candidate will be a confident, decisive, influential and innovative leader who can communicate a compelling and comprehensive set of outcomes to be achieved.
• You must have the presence and influence to define and enforce high standards for programs you implement and monitor at all levels.
• You must be comfortable with ambiguity, and can define structure, processes and standards where none yet exist.
• You must be able to deliver on our customer data security tenets and mission first; minimizing tradeoffs in cost, efficiency and operations friction. Written and verbal communications are comprehensive, clear and precise.

Basic qualifications

• A minimum of 7 years of security operations experience.
• At least 5 years in a people manager role.
• 2 years of work experience in corporate or infrastructure security.
• BA/BS or higher degree and/or security certification i.e. CPP, PSP, CSMP.

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