As a Senior Physical Security Specialist on the AWS Security's Assessments, Risk Guidance, and Outcomes (ARGO) team, you'll lead the strategy and execution of physical security assessments across AWS's worldwide infrastructure expansion portfolio, shaping how we secure facilities before they're built and as they operate.

This isn't a desk job with a narrow lane. You'll be the domain expert driving physical security risk reduction at global scale, conducting field and desktop assessments, developing control strategies tailored to unique operating environments, and advising senior leaders on how expansion decisions impact AWS's security posture. Your work directly enables AWS to grow safely into new regions and facility types.

You'll own the full physical security assessment lifecycle-from analysis, design through execution, reporting, and mitigation tracking

You'll build mechanisms and tools that make physical security delivery faster and more consistent across the organization

You'll influence without authority; leading cross-functional initiatives by earning trust through the quality of your analysis and recommendations

You'll operate with high autonomy, making expert judgment calls on when to escalate, when to act, and when to recommend patience

You'll bridge physical security, infrastructure design, and business risk into integrated assessments that no single-domain specialist could produce alone

If you thrive on solving complex problems on a global scale, want your expertise to directly shape how one of the world's most critical infrastructures is secured, and value a role where your judgment genuinely matters - this is it.

Key job responsibilities

Lead comprehensive physical security assessments across varying facility types and geographic regions using desktop and field research

Define and maintain the overall physical security assessment strategy; ensuring methodologies stay current, standards-aware, and consistently applied across infrastructure types and project timelines

Conduct security risk analysis for new and existing infrastructure; identifying vulnerabilities, evaluating physical security factors, and developing risk reduction strategies for unique operating environments

Develop and implement physical security control strategies that balance security requirements against operational and business needs

Build repeatable processes, tools, and mechanisms that increase speed and consistency of physical security delivery across the organization

Communicate assessment findings and recommendations to diverse audiences; from practitioners to senior executives - through written reports, presentations, and direct engagement

Lead project and program execution across the physical security portfolio; managing stakeholders, tracking milestones, and driving efforts to completion

Coordinate transfer of physical security responsibility from project delivery teams to long-term operational owners

Evaluate security implications of technology projects and infrastructure changes from a physical security perspective

Ability to travel internationally for up to 25% of the year.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience in risk assessment and enabling organizations to make security decisions

- Experience communicating and presenting to senior leadership

- Experience conducting physical security risk assessments across multiple infrastructure types or geographic regions using structured methodologies

- 7+ years of experience in physical security assessment, physical security program management, or a closely related field (e.g., critical infrastructure protection, industrial security design)

- Bachelor's degree in security management, risk management, engineering, or a related discipline (or equivalent professional experience)

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience writing and publishing technical documents or equivalent

- Experience in physical security best practices including application of physical security systems, investigation techniques, management of contract security guards and incident management

- Experience in a data center or other critical environment

- Professional certification in physical security (e.g., CPP, PSP, or equivalent)

- Experience in physical Red Team assessments and evaluations

- Experience working across multiple international regions with an understanding of how local security dynamics influence physical security design

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, VA, Arlington - 119,300.00 - 208,900.00 USD annually