Network Engineer OpenAI · London

About the Team OpenAI’s Network Security team designs and operates the secure, reliable connectivity behind our offices, labs, campuses, cloud environments, people, and devices. We combine strong network fundamentals with automation, observability, and close partnership across IT, Security, Research, Applied, and business teams. About the Role As a Network Engineer, you will design, operate, troubleshoot, and automate secure, reliable networks across offices, labs, cloud connectivity, and production services. You will balance strategic platform work—architecture, standards, roadmaps, lifecycle planning, and automation—with responsive operations such as incidents, escalations, break/fix, and time-sensitive delivery. We’re looking for broad network engineers who meet users where they are, lead with curiosity, own outcomes end-to-end, move with urgency grounded in security, and iterate with purpose. You will turn operational signals and recurring reactive work into durable systems and standards. In this role, you will: - End-to-end ownership of secure enterprise routing, switching, wireless, WAN, network services, and cloud connectivity. - A deliberate balance of strategic platform improvement and responsive troubleshooting, change safety, incident response, and operational delivery. - Purposeful iteration through software, APIs, Infrastructure-as-Code, Git workflows, testing,…