responsibilities

• Attract, develop, and retain talent; deliver results through teamwork; role model our Microsoft values with a passion for diversity and inclusion.
• Function as a team leader who can stand on their own to stringent business deadlines and represent the team, as well as lead their team to success through delegation.
• Manage a team focused on enabling a trustworthy physical computing environment that protects customer data, intellectual property, people, and the critical infrastructure facilities in which they reside or operate.
• Ensure their team and all related suppliers are compliant with all security controls, policies, and objectives at all times.
• Review, edit, improve, and approve physical security objectives and scopes of work for security system and project work to ensure compliance and standardization to established baselines, cost and schedule efficiency, and policy.
• Oversee timely regional testing and commissioning of physical security devices and systems to ensure compliance and standardization to established baselines, cost and schedule efficiency, and policy.
• Scheduling and prioritization of resources and workloads to ensure the teams resources are focussed correctly and in line with the business needs to ensure timely delivery of completed projects to the standards required.
• Responsible for accurate metric reporting and tracking to ensure project delivery is measurable and relevant reports are generated for analysis.
• Continuously improve the efficiency and maturity of the overall physical security program.
• Receive escalations/notifications of physical security and business impacting incidents/events and appropriately triage, ensuring that leadership is made initially and continuously aware when appropriate and that the appropriate personnel are managing the incident response effectively.
• Collaborate with peer teams and organizations to ensure their team is aligned with broader strategy and initiatives, fully supporting leadership priorities, being good partners, helping reduce costs, time burden, and complexity, and being responsive trusted advisors.
• Continuously seek data and recommend strategies and ideas to reduce churn, optimize, implement a creative solution to a problem, scale, automate, and simplify.
• Deliver assigned projects in accordance with established requirements, deadlines, and applicable employment law and company policy.
• Engage with internal and external customers as appropriate to evangelize and represent Microsoft’s datacenter physical security programs.
• Maintain confidentiality, discretion, and protect Microsoft information without question.

Qualifications

Basic Qualification

• Dynamic business or construction management with experience in the field.
• Experience in managing the deployment of comprehensive global projects.
• Actual experience in the management of high performing teams in datacenters or other critical infrastructure environments is highly desirable.
• Familiarity with technical delivery and/or physical security systems design/engineering.
• Ability to travel approximately 25% of the time in both planned and unplanned scenarios.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Direct experience managing technical engineering or enterprise security systems in datacenters or other critical infrastructure environments is highly desirable.
• Confident and skilled in preparing and delivering presentations and briefings to customers, senior leaders, and executives.
• Experience making and influencing good decisions that impact mission-critical, 24x7 operations environments.
• Strong work and compliance ethic, and the ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a dynamic and high-pressure environment.
• Thought leadership and subject matter expertise to deliver one or more large programs and services while increasing standardization, simplification, and automation.
• Ability to change plans, goals, actions, and priorities in response to an evolving business environment with awareness to operate as a champion for course corrections when necessary.
• Ability to develop, and maintain security related processes, procedures, program baselines, training, and improvement plans.
• Ability to work independently with minimal guidance while being a team player able to effectively manage a demanding workload and team across geographic and organizational boundaries.
• BS or BA in business management or engineering or technical security related discipline, or equivalent experience preferred.
• PSP, CPP, PMP, or CSPM certifications are desirable.