Hybrid Network & Datacenter Deployment Engineer

at Cloudflare

• Job title: Network & Datacenter Deployment Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: $93,000 - $135,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Ansible, Chef, Linux, Puppet, SaltStack
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Austin, United States

About the role

• Network & Datacenter Deployment Engineer at Cloudflare focused on building and expanding their global network infrastructure with collaboration across multiple engineering teams and vendors.

Responsibilities

• 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 cutting-edge 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, SOP’s, MOP’s etc.
• Collaborating with internal teams (infrastructure engineering, network engineering and SRE) for day to day activities.
• Coordinating installation of cross-connects globally in support of physical network expansion.
• Assisting with the definition, documentation and implementation of consistent processes across all regions.
• Limited travel

Requirements

• 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 day-to-day 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.

Benefits

• Medical/Rx Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Commuter Spending Accounts
• Fertility & Family Forming Benefits
• On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
• Global Travel Medical Insurance
• Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
• Life & Accident Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
• Employee Stock Participation Plan
• Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
• Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave