IDC Security Engineer

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Meta is seeking a highly skilled Security Engineer to join our Infrastructure Data Center (IDC) Security & Compliance team as an individual contributor. As a key member of the team, you will play a critical role in managing risk for our rapidly scaling global infrastructure and operations portfolio spanning data centers, edge, backbone, subsea, and supply chain. Our mission is to design, implement, and maintain robust physical and logical security systems that ensure business continuity, protect customer data, and assure compliance with Meta’s security policies and regulatory requirements.

• Serve as a comprehensive security expert accountable for security risk management across logical and physical security domains
• Assess security risk and communicate information about security threats and vulnerabilities to inform business decisions and drive strategy
• Assess and report on effectiveness of security controls to inform security strategy, manage security risk, and enable business operations
• Engineer security solutions across the network, physical, and cyber/logical domains that efficiently protect Meta infrastructure from security threats at scale
• Develop and operationalize security guidance (e.g., standards, guidelines, playbooks) to align corporate policy, industry best practices, and regulatory requirements into a unified strategy
• Integrate security solutions throughout the entire data center lifecycle including: planning, design, construction, operations, refresh, and decommissioning
• Develop and implement custom detection rules tailored to mechanical cooling and electrical systems supporting facility operations of our data center buildings
• Support security incident management across all domains and including maintaining and troubleshooting infrastructure supporting network security tools

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• 10+ years of hands‑on security experience
• Technical experience across security domains
• Experience establishing, scaling, and maturing security projects and programs
• Experience supporting security for large‑scale and/or mission‑critical infrastructure and operations
• Basic understanding of network engineering fundamentals, such as TCP/IP, routing, switching, network segmentation, and protocol analysis
• Basic understanding of network security, including the design, implementation, and management of secure network architectures for large scale network infrastructure

• Advanced degree in a related field
• Background in intrusion detection, security investigations, and incident response
• Experience working on or managing projects that have enterprise‑wide impact and/or multi‑organization cross‑functional stakeholders
• Experience working directly in hyperscale Data Center programs or other large scale mission critical infrastructure
• Experience managing, executing, and successfully delivering multiple complex projects and programs simultaneously
• Understanding and awareness of prevailing industry standards and guidelines

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