Data Center Security Delivery Lead | Flexible Hours

Anthropic; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 219,000 - 365,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Lead for Data Center Security Delivery to own security across the full construction arc for multiple campuses, ensuring readiness and accountability before handover. You will manage temporary site security, vendor coordination, and milestone-based acceptance across complex builds.

The role requires influencing contractors, defining security requirements, and driving a robust readiness program to ensure a clean handover to operations and ongoing security operations.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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 DCSE's 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.

Skills

Data Center Security

Construction Security

Milestone/Commissioning

Contractual Obligations

Stakeholder Management

Policy & Standards Writing

Risk & Incident Escalation

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Anthropic is seeking a Lead for Data Center Security Delivery to own security across the full construction arc for multiple campuses, ensuring readiness and accountability before handover. You will manage temporary site security, vendor coordination, and milestone-based acceptance across complex builds.

The role requires influencing contractors, defining security requirements, and driving a robust readiness program to ensure a clean handover to operations and ongoing security operations.