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Security manager, data centre security

Melbourne
Amazon
Posted: 27 April
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Applicants must be Australian citizens and hold or be eligible to obtain an Australian Government Security Clearance with the ability to successfully complete an Organisational Suitability Assessment. For more information regarding security clearances please visit https://www.agsva.gov.au/.

We are looking for a Facility Security Manager for our cloud infrastructure in Australia. We need someone with experience managing security of large critical installations, ideally data centres, and who can set strategy, manage budgets, lead projects, and drive improvements in our security practices and operations.

Key job responsibilities

* Responsible for providing comprehensive program security guidance concerning personnel, physical, operational, technical, industrial, counterintelligence, and media management.
* Create, implement, communicate, and manage security requirements at a large, government accredited sites, while providing day‐to‐day multi‐discipline program security operations support.
* Draft and review security documentation to include transportation plans, procedures, and CONOPs.
* Proactively identify program and physical security requirements, problems, and sound solutions to successfully sustain and enhance the security of program execution.
* Perform and/or support the operations and maintenance of security hardware and systems employed onsite to meet government and AWS requirements.
* Develop and strengthen relationships with internal (operations staff, engineers, teammates, etc.) and external (vendors, contractors etc.) partners to heighten security awareness and engagement.
* Direct and manage onsite security forces to run daily security operations.
* Manage the classified material program to ensure procedures are developed and operated in accordance with internal and customer security policies and practices.
* Experience with workflow ticketing and extraction of performance metrics.
* Must be willing to share on‐call rotations in support of alarms, security incidents, escalations and critical service outages.
* Provide after‐hours on‐call management support and participate in emergent, large‐scale event response when needed.
* Participate in re‐occurring security audits and reviews.
* Execute established compliance processes with AWS policies, standards, guidelines and relevant legal and regulatory requirements.
* Manage the security P&L for assigned site(s), assist management with financial analysis and contribute to financial decisions for security requirements.
* Must be able to travel between local facilities.

Hold or be able to attain an Australian Government Security Vetting Agency clearance. (See https://www.agsva.gov.au/applicants/eligibility-and-suitability)

Basic Qualifications

* Experience in physical security best practices, including application of physical security systems, investigation techniques, management of contract security guards and incident management.
* Demonstrated ability to effectively manage a third‐party guard force in a dynamic operating environment.
* Demonstrated track record of growth and increasing responsibility that require maturity, judgment, negotiation, analytics, and influence skills.

Preferred Qualifications

* Experience making business recommendations and influencing stakeholders.
* Ability to manage 24x7 security operations, including short‐notice response to emerging operational issues.
* Detailed understanding of the Australian Government's PSPF – with the ability to create Standard Operating Procedures.

Acknowledgement of country: In the spirit of reconciliation Amazon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

IDE statement: Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you're applying in isn't listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

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