Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides storage, compute and other solutions to customers globally. Our customers trust and expect us to protect their data with impeccable physical security, continually evolving security practices to mitigate risk. The Data Center Operations Physical Security Team provides physical security solutions to protect the AWS personnel, AWS facilities, and information of our customers.
The AWS Data Center Operations Physical Security team is looking for a Program Manager who will take a lead role in ensuring the successful deployment and launch of physical security programs. The role is focused specifically on new machine learning data center launches and will include continuous improvement efforts. Additionally, this role will collaborate with other AWS and Data Center Operation teams in developing the solutions and applications to improve data center safety, security, and efficiency.
A successful candidate will have proven to be capable to manage a global deployment strategy, work cross functionality with vendors, procurement, finance, operations, and software teams. This candidate will develop outcomes that will involve many types of hardware and software platforms and process development/optimization. Ability to travel 50% to support deployment and implementation globally.
Key job responsibilities
• Lead the deployment, launch, and continuous improvement of new data center builds and expansions.
• Collaborate with internal teams and external vendors to generate high quality, cost effective solutions and deliver results on time.
• Simultaneously manage multiple projects and tasks while effectively influencing, negotiating, and communicating with internal and external business partners, contractors and vendors.
• Lead continuous improvement processes to improve physical security programs.
• Implement and fully document improvements and modifications related to new technologies.
• May be asked to be a people manager of other program managers
About the team
Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have 13 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. 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.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Atlanta, GA, USA | Austin, TX, USA | Chicago, IL, USA | Herndon, VA, USA | Los Angeles, CA, USA | New York, NY, USA | Seattle, WA, USA
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
– Bachelor degree in Business, Project Management, or Construction
– PMP certified or similar
– 5+ year’s experience in-line with role’s level of responsibility, including program management
– 5+ year’s experience working with the large scale global deployments of hardware/software
– 5+ years proficient using business/technical software like MS Excel and MS Project.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
– Advanced degree in Business, and at least five years of progressively responsible experience in program management
– Capital project management skills
– Experience working with designs of complex systems, software and hardware, specifically in the Physical Security space
– Ability to travel 50% to support deployment and implementation globally
– Experience in practicing / implementing continuous improvement methodology – LEAN, Six Sigma, ITIL, CMMI
– Highly driven, self-managed individual who demonstrates initiative and proactively seeks solutions to problems
– Must possess excellent verbal and written communication skills
– Ability to develop short and long-term plans of action, understands problems from a broad perspective and uses conventional and unconventional reasoning to discern underlying principles and issues to create innovative solutions
– Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role
– Meets/exceeds Amazon’s functional/technical depth and complexity for this role.
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $118,900/year in our lowest geographic market up to $231,300/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.