Data Center Security Manager (English, German)

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience coordinating or managing resources for data center locations, and leading operational or project based work and tasks.
• 5 years of experience leading physical security operations, threat management, or project-based security work, and coordinating or managing resources for data center locations.
• Experience with physical security technologies, including CCTV, access control, incident management systems, and security operations centers.
• Ability to communicate in English and German fluently to support local stakeholders.

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree in Criminal Justice or a related field.
• 4 years of experience developing and deploying processes to mitigate risk.
• 2 years of experience coordinating or leading security, and experience planning security operations or strategy for security programs.
• 2 years of experience with data center technologies, infrastructure, and methodologies.
• 2 years of experience managing incidents and crises.

About the job As a Data Center Security Manager, you deliver full pieces of a project and make significant contributions with minimal guidance.

You use your knowledge of security technology, data analysis, and data visualization to plan efforts of a team responsible for small to medium sized initiatives by delivering value-added perspectives and influencing project direction.

You contribute to cross-team collaborations, identify and recommend multiple creative ways to solve defined problems.

You also demonstrate the behaviors expected of all Googlers as captured in Google's cultural pillars, and you engage in community contributions to improve and sustain our culture and operations, making Google a better place to work.

In this role, you will take ownership of key activities including security budgeting, and manage physical security vendor operations to ensure high-performance service delivery.

You will partner closely with cross-functional Google teams to implement security policies, lead investigations, and proactively mitigate operational risks.

You will direct responses to active security incidents, coordinate critical event workflows, and serve as the primary, authoritative liaison with public safety officials and law enforcement.

Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running.

From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible.

We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them.

We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Germany: €104000 - €106000 (EUR) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google .

Responsibilities

• Implement established compliance processes aligned with Compliance, Strategy, and Risk Management (CSRM) policies, standards, guidelines, and relevant legal or regulatory requirements.
• Manage the security related costs through budget, forecasting, and invoice control for the assigned campus, assist management with financial analysis and input to financial decisions for security requirements.
• Provide after-hours on-call management support and participate in emergent, large-scale event response or crisis management when needed.
• Be responsible for the compliance, security and risk management program at the data center campus or related infrastructure which includes managing site security incidents, escalations, guard contract management and all other physical security related issues.