Data Center Security Engineer
About the Team Security is foundational to OpenAI’s mission of ensuring that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. As OpenAI builds and operates increasingly powerful systems, security helps make that progress durable, trustworthy, and resilient.
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Data Center Security Engineer at OpenAI in San Francisco. UpJobz keeps this listing high-signal for applicants targeting serious high-tech roles across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. About the Team Security is foundational to OpenAI’s mission of ensuring that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. As OpenAI builds and operates increasingly powerful systems, security helps make that progress durable, trustworthy, and resilient.
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- Design and implement security controls that protect data center infrastructure across a growing global footprint, with particular focus on both OT and IT networking environments.
- Partner closely with a small team of data center security specialists, as well as engineering, operations, and broader security teams, to deliver resilient and practical security outcomes.
- Secure OT and IT networking environments through strong segmentation, access control, monitoring, hardening, and connectivity patterns suited to critical infrastructure.
- Contribute to security architecture and design reviews for data center systems, including OT and IT networking, network segmentation, identity and access management, provisioning workflows, hardware and firmware trust boundaries, and operational safeguards.
- Perform recurring audits, control assessments, and validation activities across OT and IT networking environments to ensure continued compliance against defined controls.
- Drive ongoing evidence collection, gap tracking, and remediation follow-through so control deficiencies are identified quickly and closed durably.
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- Support security monitoring, incident response, and post-incident improvement efforts for data center, OT, and IT networking environments.
- Work with suppliers, partners, and internal stakeholders to evaluate and reduce risks associated with third-party hardware, firmware, software, and operational dependencies.
- Continually evolve the security of our data centers alongside changes in adversary activity, infrastructure complexity, and the increasing demands of OpenAI’s systems.
- 15+ years of experience in security, including meaningful hands-on experience securing large-scale infrastructure, industrial environments, or data center systems.
- Deep expertise securing OT and IT networking environments in critical infrastructure settings, including segmentation strategies, remote access controls, asset visibility, and compensating controls for operational constraints.
- Experience building audit or assurance programs that validate ongoing compliance with defined security controls, especially across OT and IT networking environments, rather than relying on one-time point-in-time reviews.
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- Design and implement security controls that protect data center infrastructure across a growing global footprint, with particular focus on both OT and IT networking environments.
- Partner closely with a small team of data center security specialists, as well as engineering, operations, and broader security teams, to deliver resilient and practical security outcomes.
- Secure OT and IT networking environments through strong segmentation, access control, monitoring, hardening, and connectivity patterns suited to critical infrastructure.
- Contribute to security architecture and design reviews for data center systems, including OT and IT networking, network segmentation, identity and access management, provisioning workflows, hardware and firmware trust boundaries, and operational safeguards.
- Perform recurring audits, control assessments, and validation activities across OT and IT networking environments to ensure continued compliance against defined controls.
- Drive ongoing evidence collection, gap tracking, and remediation follow-through so control deficiencies are identified quickly and closed durably.
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