You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.
AWS’ Infrastructure Physical Security Team is looking for a Data Center Security Specialist with experience working in critical infrastructure installations, ideally data centers.
As a Data Center Security Specialist you will be tasked with driving operational security excellence in a control room setting. You will provide support to on-site security and other customers by completing virtual security tasks via a chat/phone system. Your vigilance will drive a culture of quality, support, and proactive identification of physical security vulnerabilities for remediation. You will interface directly with customers from across the United States, Canada, Brazil, and Mexico. You will extract metrics and observe improvements by looking at available data. You will write and implement security procedures and directives, reports, develop presentations, and advise leadership on the status of physical security operations. The ideal candidate will be open to working non-traditional hours to support a 24x7 security operation.
Key job responsibilities
- Support daily operations of Data Centers/ Colo environments by completing virtual security task involving security systems and access control
- Drive security awareness campaigns aimed at enhancing security vigilance and effectiveness
- Experience with workflow ticketing and extraction development of performance metrics
- Lead security investigations across campus facilities
- As this is a GovCloud region, the selected candidate requires US Citizenship or equivalent status
- May be tasked with working different work shifts consisting of Day, Evening, Overnight, and weekend shifts.
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.
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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 1+ year of experience working in a standards-based professional work environment
- 1+ year of experience collecting, analyzing, and utilizing data to drive process and system improvement, and effect quality assurance
- 1+ year of experience with Microsoft Office tools
- Familiarity with various Access/Intrusion control Systems in a control room setting environment
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
• Associates degree or higher and/or equivalent professional experience in corporate or government security environment
• 2+ years of experience with excellent verbal and written communications skills in a professional work setting
• 2+ years of experience writing detailed reports
• 1+ year of experience with Asana
• 2+ years of working in a security related field with electronic security systems
• 2+ years of root-cause analysis experience
• Familiarity with security program automation and implementation
• Ability to interpret program objectives, develop project schedules and manage adherence to established timetables
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical individuals regarding physical security standards and policies
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.