Global Data Center Network Engineer

Cloudflare; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Cloudflare seeks an experienced Network Infrastructure professional to lead the build-out and expansion of its global network from Singapore or Sydney. You will partner with Network Engineering, SRE, and vendors to plan, deploy, and optimize datacenter facilities, power, cooling, and cross-connects across 700+ locations.

This role requires deep technical skills in data center operations, Linux administration, automation, and project management, with a proactive, cross-time-zone communicator.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of prior relevant experience in Data Center Operations, Site Reliability Engineering, Linux Systems Administration, Network Engineering, and/or DevOps experience.
• Experience with data center operations day-to-day tasks and projects.
• Familiarity with optical transport technologies such as CWDM/DWDM.
• Configuration management tool experience like Saltstack, Chef, Puppet or Ansible.
• Knowledge of Network Protocols, Topologies and Enterprise architecture.
• Experience writing network configuration and design documentation.

Responsibilities

• Provisioning, monitoring and maintaining hardware, software, and network in new Cloudflare data centers.
• Perform server administration tasks remotely using IPMI/BMC tools, including server provisioning, monitoring, troubleshooting and firmware updates.
• Perform network configuration tasks to network devices in greenfield deployment and brownfield migration activities.
• Managing remote contractors to complete datacenter installations and upgrades (rack and stack).
• Build automation to eliminate repetitive work using Python scripts, and Changie.
• Planning and implementing network and server installations, including facility power, cooling, security, rack layout and cable management.
• Providing technical leadership and guidance to remote contractors and junior team members during deployment activities.
• Creating and maintaining documentation, plans, SOPs, MOPs and runbooks.
• Collaborating with internal teams on day-to-day operations and project planning.
• Coordinating installation of cross-connects globally in support of physical network expansion.
• Assisting with the definition, documentation and implementation of consistent processes and standardization across all regions.
• Limited travel.

Skills

Data Center Operations

Site Reliability Engineering

Linux Systems Administration

Network Engineering

DevOps

Python scripting

Bash scripting

Automation

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or related

Tools

SaltStack

Chef

Puppet

Ansible

IPMI/BMC

JIRA

DCIM tools

CWDM/DWDM

Juniper Junos

Cisco IOS

Arista EOS

Job description

Cloudflare seeks an experienced Network Infrastructure professional to lead the build-out and expansion of its global network from Singapore or Sydney. You will partner with Network Engineering, SRE, and vendors to plan, deploy, and optimize datacenter facilities, power, cooling, and cross-connects across 700+ locations.

This role requires deep technical skills in data center operations, Linux administration, automation, and project management, with a proactive, cross-time-zone communicator.