Infrastructure Deployment Engineer, Cloudflare
Web performance and security platform
Open for applications
Web performance and security platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
Cloudflare's mission is to help build a better Internet that is bold and ambitious.
Role
Who you are
- 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
Desirable
- Bachelor’s degree, technical background in engineering, computer science, or MIS a plus
- Direct experience executing on datacenter / infrastructure projects with many moving parts
- Previous experience installing / maintaining datacenter (and other IT) infrastructure and DCIM tools
- Strong understanding of BGP and anycast routing
- Professional level network certification(s) (JNCIP, CCNP, etc) or higher
- Good working knowledge of Juniper Junos, Cisco IOS, Cisco NX-OS and Arista EOS
- Load balancing and reverse proxies such as Nginx, Varnish, HAProxy, Apache
- Proficient in one or more programming languages and willing to learn new ones when required
- 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 MS excel and Google spreadsheets
- Comfortable handling basic program management responsibilities (prioritization, planning, scheduling, status reporting) such as JIRA
- Experience managing remote contractors
- Must be a team player
- Multi-lingual; experience working with infrastructure in multiple countries
- Experience with continuous / rapid deployment
- Experience working in a 24/7/365 mission-critical service environment
- Comfortable with remote “lights-out” and out-of-band access to data center resources
- Linux certifications
- Knowledge of the OSI-model and experience isolating network, hardware and software issues
What the job involves
- 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
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Cloudflare is a multi-service global network that provides web security and infrastructure, DDoS mitigation services, and a content delivery network. Founded in 2009, Cloudflare has risen to become an industry giant, with around 25 million global internet properties on its network.
Cloudflare has been responsible for a number of admirable initiatives, offering free web protection to human rights groups, journalists, artists, and US election websites. This goes some way to counteracting the flak Cloudflare has received in some circles for the controversial groups and users who use its services. This chequered history, however, has not affected its over 80% market share in the content delivery network field.
This is perhaps in part because it has proven sharp at staying abreast of the rapidly morphing tech and digital space and customer demands. For example, Cloudflare is shifting to 100% renewable energy usage to create a zero-emissions internet, and in 2020 released a feature that would help users navigate data privacy regulations by selecting where their data is stored.
The cloud infrastructure market reached $53 billion in 2022. While the Big 3 (Amazon, Microsoft, and Google) own 65% of the market, that still leaves billions of dollars left for companies such as Cloudflare. Its ambitious and successful work is likely to continue being a crucial feature of the web, but in 2023, placed it in the crosshairs of hackers looking to exploit its infrastructure. The beginning of 2024 saw Cloudflare vow to bolster its security and patch vulnerabilities.
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Insights
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back within 2 weeks
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Minimum 8 weeks of paid parental leave
- Equal opportunity employer
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
- Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance, Disability Insurance
- 401(k) plans
- Family planning and fertility program
- Gym discounts
- Commuter Benefits Program
Company values
- Principled - We create our products and features with a global mindset and democratize important and innovative technologies that drive adoption of the latest standards
- Curious - Our team is made up of pioneering innovators that approach new challenges with interest and a desire to learn
- Transparent - We hold ourselves accountable when we make mistakes—and we do everything we can to learn from them
Company HQ
China Basin, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Lee Holloway
(Lead Engineer)Lee started their career as an Engineer at Homewarehouse for a year before working at Unspam Technologies for 4 years. They co-created Project Honey Pot in 2004 and Cloudflare in March 2009, serving as Lead Engineer of both to present.
Michelle Zatlyn
(President & COO)Having worked for Investor Economics and I Love Rewards for a combined 4 years, Michelle worked at Toshiba for 3 years as a Product Manager. She then co-founded Cloudflare in 2009 as COO, and has served as President since 2020. She is also a Board Member at Atlassian.
Matthew Prince
(CEO)Matthew studied for an MBA at Harvard Business School before co-founding Unspam Technologies in December 2001, and Cloudflare as CEO in March 2009.
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