Data Center Security Manager

2 weeks ago

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa Amazon Data Services South Africa (Pty) Ltd Full time
2 years+ operational experience using CCTV, access control, intrusion systems and investigative interrogation of access control

  • 2 years+ experience supporting GDPR compliance in the use of data collection technology (e.g. CCTV, Access Control systems)
  • 5 years experience in a direct management role with large contract guard force teams (50+officers).


Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for a highly motivated, customer-obsessed professional to provide hands-on support to our Data Center Infrastructure Operations team across FRA Cluster as Data Center Security Manager.

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.

Key job responsibilities

  • Protect sensitive data and assets by monitoring data in motion, in use and at rest
  • Implement and manage data loss prevention technologies for onpremises access control & CCTV systems. (Experience with the LENEL Access Control & Alarm Monitoring System is a plus) CPP/PSP Certification preferred
  • Write reports and communicate with management on the status of physical security operations. Oversee new security construction or retrofit projects.
  • Manage the security P&L for assigned site(s), assist management with financial analysis and contribute to financial decisions for security requirements.
  • Executes established compliance processes with AWS policies, standards, guidelines and relevant legal and regulatory requirements.
  • Direct work with contract guard force to run daily data center operations.
  • Triage events and assess suspicious activities related to data loss
  • Support Incident Response teams in data loss related investigations
  • Map data security flow diagrams to provide visibility on where sensitive data lies and how it's adequately secured
  • Reviews and analyzes complex data and information to provide insights, conclusions and actionable recommendations
  • Executes established compliance processes with AWS policies, standards, guidelines and relevant legal and regulatory requirements.
  • Ability to identify data security risks as they relate to the business and data privacy
  • Conduct data security assessments to ensure and validate the security posture of the organization
  • Provides direction and guidance on reports and analyses and ensures recommendations are aligned with customer/business needs and capabilities
  • Act as data security advisory and establish strong relationship with other data functions within the organization (data privacy, governance and management)
  • Collaborate with other teams to protect AWS Data Center personnel, information and assets.
  • Manage the security P&L for assigned site(s), assist management with financial analysis and contribute to financial decisions for security requirements.
About the team
Diverse Experiences

Why AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform.

We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that's why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it's in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences.

Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth
We're continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth's Best Employer.

That's why you'll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony.

Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture.

When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there's nothing we can't achieve in

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