Infrastructure Deployment Engineer Intern

San Francisco, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: Yesterday

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

About Us

At Cloudflare we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the worlds 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. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network which gets smarter with every request. As a result they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazines Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the Worlds Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.

At Cloudflare were not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; were looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a normalized problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow while ensuring that every improvement no matter how small is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If youre the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward youll fit right in.

Available Locations: London (UK) or Lisbon (Portugal)

About the Team & Role

In this role you will help support the foundations of a new infrastructure build-out and expansion of our global network. As an intern you will be paired with a dedicated mentor from the Deployment team who will guide you through the end-to-end lifecycle of infrastructure planning and execution.

This is a practical and data driven hands-on opportunity to bridge the gap between academic theory and real-world application. You will take ownership of small-scale deployment projects and validate key technical DCIM records for operational rigor using AI create scripts and identify opportunities to automate our workflows. If you are eager to learn willing to get your hands dirty while learning and leveraging AI to validate automate and strengthen the data integrity for our deployments to help build a faster safer Internet for millions of users this is the place for you.

What would you do as a Cloudflare intern

Take ownership of small-scale deployment projects from planning to turn-up under the close guidance of a senior engineering mentor.
Get into the real world visit local data centers to perform physical deployment activities including racking and stacking hardware running cables and troubleshooting physical layer issues.
Assist with server administration tasks remotely using IPMI/BMC tools including server provisioning monitoring and firmware updates.
Help coordinate with remote contractors datacenter providers and logistics partners during hardware installations across our 700 global locations.
Learn to use AI to perform global infrastructure data validation gap analysis and identify automation and integrity validation workflows to eliminate manual tasks and improve our teams deployment speed.
Using AI to perform inline validation checks prior to pushing network configurations for deployments
Present your completed project to the senior leadership team at the end of the internship

Examples of Desirable Skills (Not required but a plus!)

Experience building a home network lab (e.g. GNS3 EVE-NG Packet Tracer) or completing university projects involving routing and switching.
Any exposure to server hardware components (CPU RAM NICs Optics) or datacenter facility environments (AC/DC power cooling).
Basic academic understanding of routing protocols particularly BGP.
Comfort using tools like Jira Google Spreadsheets or MS Excel to track project status
Interest and or experience in using AI to perform validations to infrastructure data query live devices and simplify workflows through automation.

Bonus Points

Entry-level industry certifications (e.g. Cisco CCNA Juniper JNCIA CompTIA Network or Linux).
Multi-lingual; comfortable communicating in a diverse international environment.

What Makes Cloudflare Special

Were not just a highly ambitious large-scale technology company. Were 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.

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 customers--at 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 privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused 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!

This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Please note that any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.

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Required Experience:

Intern

About UsAt Cloudflare we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the worlds 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...