Country Lead, Data Center Security

About Anthropic

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About the role

Anthropic's Data Center Security Engineering team owns physical security for the data centers where our AI systems are built and run from greenfield construction through live operations, across our own and partner-operated sites. As our footprint grows internationally, we're hiring our first security operations presence in Australia.

This is a country-lead role as the senior DCSE presence in Australia with a deliberate tilt toward security systems and systems architecture. You'll be the on-the-ground owner of day-to-day security operations for the region, and you'll also be the technical owner of the systems those operations run on: access control, video management, intrusion detection, and visitor management platforms and, just as importantly, the way they integrate. We want someone who thinks in data flows and system interfaces, not just devices You'll help design and build toward that architecture while keeping regional operations running with high reliability.

You'll work closely with US-based security engineering and operations teams, with the time-zone offset as a feature: this role anchors coverage and escalation when the US is offline, and may help stand up a regional 24/7 monitoring capability as the program matures.

Key responsibilities

• Serve as the regional operations lead for data center physical security in Australia: run site security programs, coordinate with site operators and contract guard forces, and own in-region incident response and escalation
• Administer and operate the region's electronic security systems  access control, video management (VMS), intrusion detection, and visitor management including configuration, health monitoring, and lifecycle management
• Design and document security systems architecture: device schedules, integration points, data flows, and network topology for security infrastructure at new and existing sites
• Build and maintain integrations that bring security data sources (video, access events, alarms, sensors) into centralized monitoring and analysis platforms
• Support construction-phase security for new builds and modular deployments in region: design reviews, commissioning of security systems, and security gates before handover
• Manage regional security vendors and integrators scoping, delivery quality, and accountability
• Write and maintain the operational backbone: post orders, standard operating procedures, and audit-ready documentation for regional security controls
• Provide after-hours coverage and structured handoffs to US-based teams as part of follow-the-sun security operations

Minimum qualifications

• Hands-on experience administering enterprise physical security systems, including access control platforms and video management systems (e.g., Genetec, Lenel, Milestone, C•CURE, or comparable)
• Experience running physical security operations at data centers, critical infrastructure, or comparable high-security facilities
• Ability to produce and work from security design documentation: drawings, device schedules, and network diagrams
• Remote within NSW, VIC, or ACT (Sydney, Melbourne, or Canberra preferred), with regular travel to data center sites, and authorization to work in Australia. 

Preferred qualifications

• 8+ years across physical security operations and security systems engineering
• Direct data center experience, including construction-phase or greenfield security commissioning
• Experience standing up or operating a SOC/GSOC or comparable 24/7 monitoring operation
• Familiarity with PSIM or SIEM platforms and physical-security network segmentation practices
• Experience managing contract guard forces and security integrators
• Experience designing or implementing integrations between security systems APIs, event streams, or middleware to consolidate data across platforms

Logistics

Minimum education: Bachelor’s 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 aren't 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.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed.  Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.

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How we're different

We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.

Come work with us!

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues. Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage: Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process.