Lead, Data Center Security Delivery (Construction to Operations)

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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. Security scope on those projects (the physical protections the systems that enforce them and the operational readiness of the company that will run the site) has to be delivered as deliberately as the buildings themselves.

As Lead for Data Center Security Delivery you will own security through that entire arc for every campus under construction: from groundbreaking through construction-phase security through commissioning and milestone acceptance to a clean handover into full operation. You are the single point of accountability for the sites security is actually ready and you will verify that the operating partner has its people processes systems and contractual security obligations genuinely in place before a site goes live.

This is a delivery role not a watch-the-dashboard role. Youll absorb the day-to-day noise of active construction sites (schedule slips design changes vendor coordination escalations) so the rest of DCSE can stay focused on steady-state operations and systems. And where DCSEs requirements or processes dont survive contact with a real construction schedule you will have the authority and the expectation to rewrite them.

Role boundaries. This seat is distinct from DCSEs regional security operations leads and from the teams systems-engineering roles. The operations leads own steady-state regional programs (vendors guard force incident response) once a site is running; the systems roles build platforms and tooling. This role owns the delivery arc: every sites security scope from construction start through commissioning acceptance and handover after which accountability transfers to operations.

You will own the security delivery program across every Anthropic campus under construction: concurrently from groundbreaking to handover.

• Construction-phase security delivery: temporary site security contractor vetting and access protection of installed equipment and coordination with general contractors and site teams on every active build.
• Milestone and commissioning acceptance: define and maintain the security acceptance criteria at each construction milestone and commissioning gate; run or attend acceptance events (FAT/SAT punch lists); issue or withhold the security sign-off.
• Operator readiness verification: build and run a structured evidence-based readiness process proving the operating company is genuinely ready before handover: staffing and guard force in place SOPs adopted security systems commissioned and monitored contractual security obligations demonstrably met.
• Clean handover to operations: own the turnover package (as-builts test records credentials punch-list closure residual-risk register) and the defined transition from construction-phase to operational security ownership.
• Requirements and process authority: rewrite DCSEs construction-security requirements delivery processes and acceptance frameworks where they fail in the field and codify what works so each build is cleaner than the last.
• Representation and escalation: represent security in design reviews owner-architect-contractor (OAC) meetings and change management; coordinate integrators general contractors and operator counterparts on security system installation testing and commissioning; surface schedule and readiness risks early with options to DCSE leadership and cross-functional partners.

• Have personally delivered the physical security scope on new-build data center (or comparable critical-infrastructure) construction projects (design reviews through construction commissioning and turnover to operations) and can name the sites and your role on them.
• 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.
• Can author requirements standards and process documents that get adopted and are willing to rewrite your own when they fail in the field.
• Work through influence with general contractors integrators operators and internal partners; you shape decisions rather than block them.

• CPP (Certified Protection Professional) or PSP (Physical Security Professional) certification or commissioning credentials.
• Hyperscaler or major colocation new-build delivery experience.
• Experience on both sides of an operator/tenant relationship.
• Construction management or owners-representative background.
• Experience in regulated or high-assurance environments.

Minimum education: Bachelors degree or an equivalent combination of education training and/or experience

Required field of study:A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework training or professional experience

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

Location-based hybrid policy: Currently we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship:We do sponsor visas! However we arent able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

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