Senior Program Manager, Data Center Delivery & Site Readiness

Cloudflare; Deutschland; Hybrid; EUR 134,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Cloudflare is seeking a Senior Program Manager to own data center delivery and sourcing work for site readiness. You will guide projects from vendor selection through construction, integration, and handover to operations.

You’ll collaborate with engineering, procurement, and facilities teams to ensure schedules, costs, and quality meet ambitious timelines. This role demands strong leadership and hands-on commercial execution across multiple sites.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in technical program management or infrastructure delivery.
• 5+ years on data center or high-density infra projects.
• Experience managing data center providers or general contractors for an owner.
• Hands-on sourcing for site services in multi-site environments.
• Negotiating supplier agreements and rate cards across locations.
• Understanding of data center MEP, cabling, and compute staging.

Responsibilities

• Represent Cloudflare across new builds and expansions with vendors and partners.
• Coordinate MEP installation, white space fit-out, rack-level power, and commissioning.
• Maintain a delivery schedule linking construction milestones to operations.
• Resolve field issues and drive recovery plans for delays.
• Negotiate regional and multi-site agreements and change orders.
• Track budgets, forecasts, and risks across concurrent projects.
• Build repeatable site-readiness playbooks and handover requirements.

Skills

Program management

Construction management

Infrastructure delivery

Data center experience

Vendor management

Sourcing

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering/construction management/business

Tools

MS Excel

Project management tools

Contract management software

Job description

About Us At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company. At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up.

Job Title: Senior Program Manager, Data Center Delivery & Site Readiness

Location

• Austin, TX
• San Francisco, CA
• New York, NY

About the role

We're looking for a Senior Program Manager to own data center delivery and the sourcing work that gets each site ready to operate. You'll take projects from vendor selection and contract negotiation through construction, infrastructure deployment, commissioning, and handover to operations. This role combines technical program management with hands‑on commercial execution. You'll work with engineering, construction, procurement, and operations teams to ensure facilities, equipment, and site services are ready when they're needed, with clear accountability for schedule, cost, and quality.

What you’ll do

• Deliver data centers
  • Represent Cloudflare across new builds and expansions, managing data center providers, general contractors, design consultants, commissioning agents, and compute integration partners.
  • Coordinate mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) installation, white space fit-out, rack‑level power, structured cabling, equipment staging and validation, and commissioning through operational acceptance.
  • Maintain a delivery schedule that connects construction milestones, equipment arrivals, service activation, and deployment dependencies.
  • Resolve field issues and drive recovery plans when commitments slip.
  • Assess vendor and partner readiness before deployment, and coordinate handover with operations so acceptance criteria, documentation, and support responsibilities are clear.
• Source site services and manage contracts
  • Own sourcing for the services each site needs to open and operate, including temporary power and water, security, waste management, and facilities support.
  • Translate construction and operational requirements into scopes of work, supplier selections, and service start dates.
  • Identify gaps early enough to prevent delays to site work.
  • Negotiate regional and multi‑site agreements, rate cards, service‑level commitments, and change orders that new sites can use without restarting procurement.
  • Hold suppliers accountable for delivery, service quality, and commercial commitments, coordinating utility and service‑provider dependencies with construction and operations.
• Manage the portfolio
  • Track budgets, forecasts, scope changes, and risks across concurrent projects. Give leadership concise updates on progress, tradeoffs, and decisions needed.
  • Build repeatable site‑readiness and delivery playbooks, including sourcing checklists, vendor qualification, milestone tracking, and handover requirements. Apply lessons from each build to the next.
  • Ensure deployment activities meet applicable codes, safety standards, and security requirements in partnership with the responsible technical teams.

What you’ll bring

• 7+ years in technical program management, construction management, or infrastructure delivery, including at least 5 years working on data center or high‑density infrastructure projects.
• Direct experience managing data center providers or general contractors on behalf of an owner, including contract administration, schedule oversight, and scope changes.
• Hands‑on sourcing experience for site services or indirect categories in multi‑site industrial environments, including standing up services for a new site.
• Experience negotiating supplier agreements and rate cards across locations, with a practical understanding of how procurement lead times affect construction and operations.
• Working knowledge of data center MEP systems, white space delivery, structured cabling, rack‑level power distribution, and compute staging and integration.
• Experience managing substantial infrastructure budgets and competing dependencies across multiple projects.
• Clear written and verbal communication, including the ability to explain technical delivery issues and commercial tradeoffs to senior leadership.
• A bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, architecture, business, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred experience

• High‑density GPU deployments and liquid cooling systems.
• Fast‑track or modular data center construction.
• Utility coordination, security services contracting, and facilities management agreements.
• PMP or an equivalent project management credential.

What Makes Cloudflare Special?

We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet. Project Galileo : Since 2014, we've equipped more than 2,400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare’s enterprise customers--at no cost. Athenian Project : In 2017, we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project, we've provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states. 1.1.1.1 : We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy‑centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer‑focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Here’s the deal - we don’t store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.

This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Please note that any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.

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