Lead, Data Center Physical Security Operations (North America)

About Anthropic

Anthropic's mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. The 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

As Anthropic's Lead for Data Center Security Operations in North America, you will own the physical security program across the NA data center footprint — spanning owned sites and colocation partners. You will partner closely with data center build and operations teams from the earliest design conversations through commissioning and into steady-state operations, shaping the security posture that protects some of the most consequential AI compute in the industry.

This role is hands-on and strategic at the same time. You'll be on-site when it matters, author the policies and standards that govern the region, run the vendor and guard-force relationships that keep sites secure day-to-day, and lead incident response when something happens. You'll also be one of the primary regional voices shaping how security integrates with infrastructure, compute, real estate, and legal partners as Anthropic scales.

You will join a growing Data Center Security Engineering function that is still in build mode. The work is ambiguous, fast-moving, and changes as strategy changes.

Responsibilities

• Own a region of North America data center security operations program across owned and colocation sites
• Partner with data center build and engineering teams on new-site design and activation, ensuring security scope is defined, delivered, and turned over to operations cleanly
• Lead the regional vendor portfolio such as integrators, guard-force providers, and general contractors with meaningful budget and SLA ownership
• Author and maintain the policies, standards, and SOPs that govern physical security in the region, keeping them aligned with company-wide frameworks
• Lead physical security incident response and investigations, and represent the region in cross-functional forums that shape infrastructure, compute, and real estate decisions

Ideal candidates

• Have extensive experience operating physical security at hyperscale or at a major colocation operator across multiple sites, with direct ownership of the operating model, vendors, and on-call
• Have personally led the security scope on new-build data center projects from design through construction