Data Center Physical Security Manager
Amazon· DC Security Amer-Southwest
Wilmer, TX$80k - $140kFull-timePosted yesterday
About the role
AWS seeks a Data Center Security Manager to assess and improve physical security programs across assigned availability zones, sites, or campuses, manage security operations projects, ensure policy compliance, and lead security initiatives in ambiguous environments.
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
Qualifications
- Experience working on physical security design and implementation of Access Control/Intrusion Detection and CCTV Surveillance systems
- 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
Skills
Required:Physical security design and implementationSecurity program management
Benefits
- Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription)
- Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans
- EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
- 401(k) matching
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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