# Manager, Data Center Rack Integration

**Company**: Cloudflare
**Location**: Hybrid
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

## About the Role

As Manager of Hardware Integration Operations, you will lead a multidisciplinary team responsible for supply coordination, rack engineering readiness, third-party integration, and deployment coordination. You will manage employees across supply-chain operations, rack integration engineering, and technical program management while scaling the team's capabilities.

## Responsibilities

### Lead and Develop the Team

- Coach, develop, and hold accountable a multidisciplinary team spanning supply-chain operations, rack integration engineering, and technical program management.

- Set priorities, clarify ownership, and develop and execute a workforce plan that expands the team's capabilities and capacity.

### Own Rack Integration Operations

- Oversee the operating model connecting capacity demand, L10 hardware supply, L11 rack production, and deployment readiness.

- Establish operating reviews, escalation mechanisms, and metrics covering schedule adherence, material readiness, supplier capacity, and ERP data accuracy.

### Guide Technical Readiness and Standards

- Lead the team's contribution to new rack architectures and L11 new product introductions in partnership with Hardware Engineering and Infrastructure Operations.

- Govern BOM consistency and integration test requirements while influencing structured cabling and data center standards that enable deployment-ready racks.

### Lead Suppliers and Commercial Operations

- Drive relationships with global L11 integration suppliers, including performance reviews, capacity commitments, and escalations.

- Partner with Hardware Sourcing on regional expansion, commercial negotiations, and L11 operating-budget governance.

### Expand Rack Integration Capabilities

- Develop and scale programs that increase the range of work completed through rack integration, improve lifecycle execution, and reduce deployment complexity.

- Partner across Engineering, Infrastructure Operations, Security, Logistics, and Hardware Sourcing to evaluate new capabilities, establish appropriate controls, and turn successful pilots into repeatable global operations.

### Transform Processes and Tooling

- Optimize enterprise workflows, including Oracle ERP, to create documented, repeatable, and data-driven operations.

- Promote responsible AI-assisted analysis and automation to improve operational efficiency, decision quality, and executive reporting.

## Requirements

- People Leadership: Proven track record in people management, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and scaling multidisciplinary operational or technical teams.

- Hardware & Integration Operations: Broad experience leading hardware manufacturing, supply-chain operations, systems integration, or hyperscale infrastructure programs across external contract manufacturers (CMs), ODMs, or global suppliers.

- Domain Technical Depth: Operational knowledge of rack-level server, network, power, cabling, and manufacturing considerations sufficient to guide technical specialists, challenge assumptions, and make informed operational decisions.

- Supplier & Program Governance: Demonstrated success managing supplier performance, capacity escalations, commercial reviews, and complex cross-functional programs spanning engineering, procurement, and logistics.

- Process & Financial Acumen: Strong judgment in managing operational budgets, demand forecasts, production metrics, and cross-functional process development.

- Global Collaboration & Travel: Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders across global time zones and travel periodically for supplier reviews.

## Skills

### Required
- hardware manufacturing
- supply-chain operations
- systems integration
- hyperscale infrastructure programs
- people management
- technical program management
- Oracle ERP
- AI-assisted analysis

### Nice to have
- hyperscale data center deployment readiness
- colocation environments
- rack lifecycle and decommissioning programs
- direct experience introducing new hardware products into contract manufacturing environments
- experience expanding hardware manufacturing or integration capabilities

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