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# Data Center Security Specialist, Data Center Security - AMER East

- **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc.
- **Location:** Gainesville, VA, United States
- **Salary:** $60,091.0 - $105,082.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Cyber Security, Data Centers, AWS Data Analytics
- **Published:** August 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/10514621/data-center-security-specialist-data-center-security-amer-east

## About the Role

Experience with access control and CCTV systems

 - 1+ years of security-related professional experience
 - Experience in security- or risk-related fields, Bachelor's degree or equivalent, or 2+ years of law enforcement or security-related experience
 - Experience in a leadership role
 - 2+ years Security experience or equivalent (demonstrated through work experience, training, military experience, or education)

## Description

As a Data Center Security Manager you will be tasked with driving operational security excellence in several separate facilities located within a short driving distance. Your constant vigilance will discover physical security gaps and shortcomings, which you will drive to fix immediately. You will interface and direct vendors involved in new security construction, repairs, daily security operations and patrols, and planning. You will extract metrics and observe improvements by looking at hard data. You will make suggestions on improving electronic surveillance and access controls. You will direct efforts to educate data center occupants on false alarm reductions. You will write and implement security process and procedures. Your position will require you to write reports, create presentations and communicate with management on the status of physical security operations.

About the team
AWS Infrastructure Services (AIS) 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.


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