Description:
To be successful in this position, you should have excellent technical skills, communication skills, and be able to navigate a range of challenges and constraints (e.g. schedule adherence, time zones, and cultures). You will have the opportunity to (literally) build a faster, safer Internet for our millions of users and the billions of web surfers that visit their sites each month.
Other Responsibilities May Include
- 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 275+ 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
Required Experience
- 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.