The Security Design Manager position reports to the Datacenter Physical Security Delivery Lead and must be an experienced team player, possess strong communication and collaboration skills, have the ability to determine the appropriate security systems solutions, and manage a demanding workload in the execution of multiple concurrent projects across geographic and organizational boundaries.
- Designs end-to-end and supports the implementation of security systems. Responsible for implementing the design and specification of alarm systems, access control, video surveillance, burglary, radio systems and all other types of physical security equipment to achieve security program goals for special projects and initiatives.
- Review, modify, and approve all security designs produced by external security vendors.
- Oversee projects to ensure they are delivered in accordance with established baseline requirements and deadlines and within budget.
- Participate in project estimating processes as well as contribute to others budgeting processes for physical security system needs in other groups.
- Partner and collaborate closely with peer leaders and stakeholders, focused on maintaining a One Microsoft, one team environment.
- 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.