Data Center Security Specialist

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Description

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we re the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain and we re looking for talented people who want to help.

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, available for a UAE national with family book. AWS are committed to contributing towards the UAE s goal of employing 75,000 Emiratis in the private sector and Ministerial Resolution No.279.

As a Data Center Security Specialist you will be tasked with driving operational security excellence in a control room setting or in several facilities located within a short driving distance. Your vigilance will drive a culture of quality and support proactive identification of physical security vulnerabilities for remediation. You will interface and direct security vendors involved in new security construction, repairs, daily security operations, patrols, and planning. You will extract metrics and observe improvements by looking at hard data available. You will advise and recommend security systems improvements and design and will lead security awareness training for data center occupants. You will write and implement security procedures and directorates, reports, develop presentations, and advise leadership on the status of physical security operations.

Key job responsibilities

• Help lead daily operational security as part of a security operations team across multiple facilities
• 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
• Oversee physical security vendors that provide guards, electronic security systems, door construction/repair, fencing, and access controls
• Distill overarching security strategy into daily tactics to reach management goals
• Oversee security construction projects
• Provide security awareness training to data center personnel
• 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, Mid or Evening/Overnight shifts.
  

Basic Qualifications

• UAE National with family book
• Experience overseeing security operations, experience Project Management experience, experience with Microsoft Office tools
• Experience in working with security vendors and contractors, experience creating process improvement procedure
  
  

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, experience writing detailed reports, overseeing security vendors that provide guards and electronic security systems
• 2+ years of experience creating and implementing emergency planning programs, physical security countermeasures, root-cause analysis experience, experience creating and implementing emergency planning programs and physical security countermeasures, familiarity with security program automation and implementation, familiarity with various Access/Intrusion Control Systems, 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 system designs