Data Center Engineer

At Cloudflare, we're on a mission to help build a better Internet.

As a Data Center Engineer, you will be focused on maintaining the Cloudflare global network. You'll work closely with Cloudflare's SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) team, Network Engineering team, Network Deployment Engineering team, and various vendors and partners to maintain and improve our global infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with internal teams (Infrastructure, Network Engineering, and SRE)
• Create documentation and manage remote contractors to complete datacenter tasks
• Maintain Data Center environment operational availability
• Leverage AI tools to automate repetitive operational tasks, accelerate documentation, and speed up troubleshooting and root-cause analysis
• Create and maintain documentation, plans, SOP's, MOP's, etc.
• Support and configure network infrastructure where required
• Provide feedback to internal teams to support internal tools and external vendor partnerships

Requirements:

• Experience with Juniper, Cisco, and DWDM network equipment
• Minimum of 4 years of experience in Linux systems administration
• Experience managing and instructing remote contractors
• Familiarity with work required to stand up infrastructure in remote colocation facilities
• Experience running and improving operational processes, including automation tooling, in a rapidly changing environment
• Familiarity with day-to-day tasks and projects common to Data Center Operations (deployment, migration, decommissioning, etc.)
• Comfortable handling basic program management responsibilities (prioritization, planning, scheduling, status reporting) such as JIRA
• Participate in a shared on-call rotation to maintain 24×7 operational availability of the global network

Nice to Have:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, or MIS
• Direct experience executing on complex data center/infrastructure projects
• Previous experience installing/maintaining data center (and other IT) infrastructure and DCIM tools
• Experience running and improving operational processes in a rapidly changing environment
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, problem-solving 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 Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets
• Comfortable handling basic program management responsibilities (prioritization, planning, scheduling, status reporting) such as JIRA
• Must be a team player