Lead, Data Center Security Delivery (Construction to Operations)

Job summary

Responsibilities

Anthropic is building data center campuses at a pace where several are under construction at once, each moving through design, construction, commissioning, and turnover to an operating partner.

• Construction-phase security delivery: temporary site security, contractor vetting and access, protection of installed equipment, and coordination with general contractors and…
• Milestone and commissioning acceptance: define and maintain the security acceptance criteria at each construction milestone and commissioning gate; run or attend acceptance…
• Operator readiness verification: build and run a structured, evidence-based readiness process proving the operating company is genuinely ready before handover: staffing and guard…
• Clean handover to operations: own the turnover package (as-builts, test records, credentials, punch-list closure, residual-risk register) and the defined transition from…
• Requirements and process authority: rewrite DCSE's construction-security requirements, delivery processes, and acceptance frameworks where they fail in the field, and codify what…

What they're looking for

• Have personally delivered the physical security scope on new-build data center (or comparable critical-infrastructure) construction projects (design reviews through construction…
• Have run milestone- or commissioning-acceptance processes: FAT/SAT, punch lists, turnover documentation, formal sign-off.
• Have held an operator, landlord, or vendor accountable to contractual security obligations, with evidence rather than assurances.
• Are comfortable being the person who says "not ready", and can do it in a way that produces a plan rather than a standoff.
• Can absorb the operational noise of multiple concurrent construction sites and still drive each one toward its handover date.