Data Center Deployment Engineer

This position is local to Austin TX with the expectation of 2 days per week inoffice.

About the Team

In this role you will be focused on the build out and expansion of our global network. Youll work closely with Cloudflares SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) team Network Engineering team Infrastructure Engineering team Project Managers and with various vendors and partners (including hardware vendors logistics datacenter and network providers and ISPs) to maintain and improve our global infrastructure and to plan and aggressively execute on the expansion of our network. You will further be responsible for the development and implementation of consistent processes and visibility measurements for consistent and effective management of our infrastructure. This is a highly visible position that requires deep technical understanding of datacenter infrastructure physical and logical networking linux and basic experience with data analysis and project management.

To be successful in this position you should have excellent technical skills communication skills and be able to navigate a range of challenges and constraints (e.g. schedule adherence time zones and cultures). You will have the opportunity to (literally) build a faster safer Internet for our millions of users and the billions of web surfers that visit their sites each month.

Other Responsibilities May Include

• Provisioning monitoring and maintaining hardware software and network in new Cloudflare data centers.
• Creating documentation and managing remote contractors to complete datacenter installations and upgrades (rack and stack) including hardware manufacturers datacenter and network providers logistics partners and other service providers in support of our 335 growing datacenter locations
• Aggressively seek opportunities to introduce cuttingedge technology and automation solutions that are effective efficient and scalable in order to improve our ability to deploy and maintain our global infrastructure.
• Planning and implementing network and server installations including in the areas of facility power (AC/DC) cooling security/access rack layout and cable management.
• Providing technical leadership and guidance during deployment activities.
• Creating and maintaining documentation plans SOPs MOPs etc.
• Collaborating with internal teams (infrastructure engineering network engineering and SRE) for day to day activities.
• Coordinating installation of crossconnects globally in support of physical network expansion.
• Assisting with the definition documentation and implementation of consistent processes across all regions.
• Limited travel

Required Experience

• Minimum of 3 years of prior relevant experience in Data Center Operations Site Reliability Engineering Linux systems administration Network Engineering and/or DevOps experience
• Familiarity with daytoday tasks and projects common in Data Center Operations.
• Experience with optical transport technologies such as CWDM/DWDM
• Configuration management tool experience like Saltstack Chef Puppet or Ansible
• Network hardware administration.
• Knowledge and exposure to Network Protocols Topologies and Enterprise architecture.
• Experience writing network configuration and design documentation.
• Experience solving problems through automation.
• Ability to write scripts for internal tools.
• Experience running and improving operational processes in a rapidly changing environment.

Examples of desirable skills knowledge and experience

• Bachelors degree technical background in engineering computer science or MIS a plus.
• Direct experience executing on datacenter / infrastructure projects with many moving parts.
• Previous experience installing / maintaining datacenter (and other IT) infrastructure and DCIM tools.
• Experience running and improving operational processes in a rapidly changing environment.
• Strong understanding of BGP and anycast routing
• Professional level network certification(s) (JNCIP CCNP etc) or higher
• Good working knowledge of Juniper Junos Cisco IOS Cisco NXOS and Arista EOS
• Load balancing and reverse proxies such as Nginx Varnish HAProxy Apache
• Proficient in one or more programming languages and willing to learn new ones when required
• Strong verbal and written communication skills problemsolving skills attention to detail and interpersonal skills.
• Must be proactive with proven ability to learn fast and execute on multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Ability to manage MS excel and Google spreadsheets.
• Comfortable handling basic program management responsibilities (prioritization planning scheduling status reporting) such as JIRA
• Experience managing remote contractors
• Must be a team player.

Bonus Points

• Multilingual; experience working with infrastructure in multiple countries.
• Experience with continuous / rapid deployment
• Experience working in a 24/7/365 missioncritical service environment
• Comfortable with remote lightsout and outofband access to data center resources
• Linux certifications.
• Knowledge of the OSImodel and experience isolating network hardware and software issues.

What Makes Cloudflare Special

Were not just a highly ambitious largescale technology company. Were a highly ambitious largescale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.

Project Galileo: Since 2014 weve equipped more than 2400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work technology already used by Cloudflares enterprise customersat no cost.

Athenian Project: In 2017 we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project weve provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.

1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster more secure and privacycentric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use it is the first consumerfocused service Cloudflare has ever released. Heres the deal we dont store client IP addresses never ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.

Sound like something youd like to be a part of Wed love to hear from you!

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