Data Centre Selection Manager

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: Singapore or Sydney

About the Role

We are seeking a new Data Center Strategy team member to improve the quality and unit cost and grow the size and number of our colocation sites/PoPs and help us understand where on the map Cloudflares infrastructure needs to go next. You possess a broad set of contacts across the data center industry and are able to navigate local and international businesses in various markets to drive the best possible deal parameters. You will unlock efficiency within our vendor partner portfolio by understanding how to structure contracts to follow demand keeping abreast of unique market dynamics and insights that help us negotiate and managing vendor partner relationships to know where to invest and partner further with existing or new partners. We are looking for someone who excels at progressing many projects in parallel managing dynamic day to day priorities with many stakeholders and has experience implementing and refining sourcing best practices in a high growth environment. Getting stuff done is a must!

The Data Center Strategy team is part of Cloudflares global Infrastructure strategy team. The infrastructure strategy team grows and manages Cloudflares global data center/PoP footprint enabling Cloudflares tremendous growth with compute network and data center infrastructure utilizing an extensive range of global partner vendors.

What you get to do in this role:

• Define regional vendor strategy for data centers
• Own deals end to end involving new and existing data center vendors and sites to support Cloudflares infrastructure growth including planning RFP commercial negotiation and execution
• Work cross-functionally with legal operations capacity planning network strategy and security teams to understand requirements and project timelines
• Establish and conduct scheduled QBR and other vendor management activities with top category partners
• Represent Cloudflare credibly to external partner C-level senior management and at public conferences/events
• Expert point of contact for internal business customers & external colocation partner vendors as needed
• Contribute information to annual data center budget for effective tracking and benchmarking of infrastructure costs
• Review colocation spend & invoices for management approval
• Other duties as assigned

Skills/Experience:

• 10 years in planning and managing data center footprints within a fast moving enterprise technology organization or cloud services software or colocation company
• Ability to multi-task and manage complex projects across multiple teams and geographies within set deadlines
• Ability to navigate solve problems and answer questions with minimal supervision
• Relationship management experience and excellent communication skills
• Demonstrated experience in commercial negotiation
• Experience with rack site power and white space planning (data center sales engineering) a plus
• Experience with or understanding of network concepts a plus
• Experience in budget planning financial analysis or other analytical role a plus
• Experience with Jira a plus
• Multilingual and/or experience living/working/conducting business in another country a plus
• Bachelors degree or equivalent experience required

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!

Please note that applicants who progress to the offer stage of the interview process may be asked to attend an in-person interview within one of the Cloudflare Offices or Cloudflare Hubs. More details about this will be available at that stage of the interview process.

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