Director, Global DC Security

Position Overview

We are seeking an experienced security or operations leader to join the global AWS Data Center Security organization. AWS Data Center Operations plans, builds, and operates the rapidly scaling high availability data centers supporting the AWS business across the globe.

The Global Director of AWS Data Center Security is responsible for safeguarding the people, assets, and customer data within our global data center portfolio.

Key Strategic Objectives :

This is our most senior DC security role with global responsibility for the policies, processes, and systems that direct, guide, and enable physical security design and operations. You’ll partner with leaders across AWS Data Center Community and AWS Security, presenting your ideas, actions, and results to the senior most leaders in AWS.

You will lead our global Data Center Security organization, consisting of physical, data, and logical security experts, program and project managers, and a large contract guard force. You’ll partner with AWS Security to define our standards, and with Data Center Operations to enact those standards globally.

Key Job Responsibilities :

• Data center security performance goals, metrics, and reporting
• Security policy and process development and implementation
• Oversight of security investigations, proposing resolution recommendations, reporting to senior AWS leadership, and closing out actions that prevent recurrence
• Leading, managing, coaching, and developing people across a large, diverse, geographically dispersed organization
• Performance and cost management of vendors, keeping operating expenses in line with management targets
• Managing a multi-million dollar capital expenditure budget, delivering projects that provide enhanced security at improved cost
• Contributing to continuous improvement of operational processes, procedures, methods, and tools including those related to safety, security, and availability, incident / event response, management, recovery, and resolution
• Managing security transitions from construction (general contractor owned) to operations (you own)

Professional Traits :

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.

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