Global Physical Security Technical Engineer

Hybrid

About Us

At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code.

Available Locations: Austin, Texas, San Francisco, CA, London, United Kingdom, or Lisbon, Portugal

As our physical security technical engineer, reporting to our Director of Physical Security, you will take ownership of our physical security technologies across our office and data center footprint.

We are looking for someone excited about solving physical world challenges with next-generation technology on a global scale. You will be leading the overall strategy & implementation as well as partnering with other teams to unify physical and digital access into one cohesive security solution for Cloudflare’s global network powering our products.

What You’ll Do

• Lead a global program focused on developing and deploying innovative physical security technology & operations across our global network of data centers.
• Utilize Cloudflare products to secure our physical security technology and work with the product teams to create new features and products applicable to the IOT / physical security space.
• Run pilots to assess if new technologies and services are worthy of longer-term investment.
• Work alongside our detections Team to identify ways to ingest video and access control event alarms into detection pipelines and process those through various stages of triage.
• Oversee our contracts and security addendums with our data center partners as they relate to physical security controls.
• Deliver the review & audit of existing and new data centers.
• Establish, implement, and automate our physical security standards, policies, and processes globally.
• Work alongside our infrastructure partners to enhance their standard operating procedures ensuring compliance with physical security standards and controls.
• Work with the security compliance and risk management team on developing and implementing physical security controls as it relates to various compliance requirements.
• Travel to Cloudflare data center locations to carry out physical security audits and oversee physical security control build outs.

Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience

• Ability to make decisions on acceptable physical security risk and drive risk mitigation.
• Experience managing large scale physical security programs, preferably with experience of physical security controls inside data centers.
• Solid understanding of integrating and deploying systems at scale, including networking and systems engineering.
• Understanding of networking security as it relates to physical security technology.
• Understanding of access control as it relates to granting logical access to systems.
• Previous experience working in Verkada Command and deploying Verkada cameras and access sensors.
• Ability to effectively prioritize and manage a large number of projects simultaneously.
• Equally adept at strategy formulation and tactical execution.
• Demonstrated success in earning trust across a broad variety of stakeholders.
• Ability to influence and motivate people across a broad variety of job functions.
• Experience communicating physical security risk plans to executive leadership.
• Experience performing site walk thoughts of data centers and corporate offices, including identification and measurement of risks and threats.
• Experience in or desire to work with multiple time zones and ability to travel to all Cloudflare locations as required; roughly 35% travel required.

What Makes Cloudflare Special?

We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.

Sound like something you’d like to be a part of? We’d love to hear from you!

This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations.

Cloudflare is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people and place great value in both diversity and inclusiveness. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to their, or any other person's, perceived or actual race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care status, or any other basis protected by law.