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Data Center Security Manager, AMER Southwest

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Clifton, TX$72.1k - $126.1kFull-timePosted yesterday

About the role

AWS is seeking an exceptional Data Center Security Manager to assess and improve security programs, manage projects, and resolve complex security problems in ambiguous environments across assigned availability zones, sites, or campuses.

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 potential 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 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 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
  • Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
  • Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership
  • Experience developing and managing a high-performing team

Skills

Required:Program security managementData-driven decision making

Benefits

  • Base salary with sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D, optional supplemental life), 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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