Data Center Security Engineer: Risk, Network & Infra

Meta; Garland (TX); On-site; USD 162,000 - 227,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta is seeking an experienced Security Engineer to join the IDC Security & Compliance team. You will manage risk for Meta's global data center and infrastructure portfolio, designing and maintaining robust physical and logical security systems to protect data and ensure regulatory compliance.

You will lead security risk assessments, develop guidance, and implement security controls across network, physical, and cyber domains to scale with our expanding infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of experience in network security, infrastructure security, or telecommunications security, with demonstrated ownership of security programs in large-scale network environments.
• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent additional experience.
• Technical experience across security domains.
• Experience in establishing, scaling, and maturing security projects and programs.
• Experience supporting security for large-scale and/or mission-critical infrastructure and operations.
• Basic understanding of network engineering fundamentals, such as TCP/IP, routing, switching, network segmentation, and protocol analysis.
• Basic understanding of network security, including the design, implementation, and management of secure network architectures for large-scale network infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a comprehensive security expert accountable for security risk management across logical and physical security domains.
• Assess security risk and communicate information about security threats and vulnerabilities to inform business decisions and drive strategy.
• Assess and report on effectiveness of security controls to inform security strategy, manage security risk, and enable business operations.
• Engineer security solutions across the network, physical, and cyber/logical domains that efficiently protect Meta infrastructure from security threats at scale.
• Develop and operationalize security guidance to align corporate policy, industry best practices, and regulatory requirements into a unified strategy.
• Integrate security solutions throughout the entire data center lifecycle including planning, design, construction, operations, refresh, and decommissioning.
• Develop and implement custom detection rules tailored to mechanical cooling and electrical systems supporting the facility operations of our data center buildings.
• Support security incident management across all domains, and including maintaining and troubleshooting infrastructure that supports network security tools.

Job description

Meta is seeking an experienced Security Engineer to join the IDC Security & Compliance team. You will manage risk for Meta's global data center and infrastructure portfolio, designing and maintaining robust physical and logical security systems to protect data and ensure regulatory compliance.

You will lead security risk assessments, develop guidance, and implement security controls across network, physical, and cyber domains to scale with our expanding infrastructure.