Security Engineer, Infrastructure Security

OpenAINorth AmericaMid LevelSecurity

Specialty

Security

The role

OpenAI is hiring a Security Engineer for its Infrastructure Security team, which protects GPU clusters, multi-cloud infrastructure, datacenters and the systems holding model weights and user data. The work is building security controls across hardware to CI/CD.

What you will do

  • Design and build security controls across hardware, firmware, OS, Kubernetes, networks and CI/CD against sophisticated and insider threats.
  • Work with engineering and security teams to roll out control changes across large-scale infrastructure.
  • Tackle projects such as checkpoint encryption, network isolation, secret management and machine identity.
  • Take a generalist approach to building controls as threats evolve.

What they ask for

  • Deep understanding of security principles and common vulnerabilities.
  • Track record of delivering scalable solutions and changes across infrastructure.
  • Expertise securing cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure, including multi-cloud networks.
  • Experience securing on-prem deployments and datacenters.
  • Familiarity with container and orchestration security and authentication/authorization.
  • Ability to automate fixes for security gaps, and to explain security concepts to non-technical people.

This is our own short reading of the posting. The full description, and anything that has changed since, is on OpenAI's careers page behind the apply button.

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