Global Data Center Network Operations Engineer

Cloudflare; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 98,000 - 123,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity plan

Job summary

Cloudflare, a leader in global internet infrastructure, is seeking a Data Center Operations engineer to keep the world’s largest network running at peak efficiency. The role focuses on maintaining data center infrastructure, collaborating with SRE, network engineering, and deployment teams, and driving automation to improve delivery and operational stability across remote colocation facilities.

You’ll work in a fast-paced, globally distributed environment, managing contractor relationships,

Qualifications

• Experience with Juniper, Cisco and DWDM network equipment.
• Minimum of 4 years experience of Linux systems administration.
• Experience managing and instructing remote contractors.
• Familiarity with work required to stand up infrastructure in remote colocation facilities.
• Experience running and improving operational processes, including automation tooling, in a rapidly changing environment.
• Familiarity with day-to-day tasks and projects common to Data Center Operations (deployment, migration, decommissioning etc.).
• Comfortable handling basic program management responsibilities (prioritization, planning, scheduling, status reporting) such as JIRA.
• Participate in a shared on-call rotation to maintain 24×7 operational availability of the global network.

Responsibilities

• Collaborating with internal teams (Infrastructure, Network Engineering and SRE). Create documentation and manage remote contractors to complete datacenter tasks, working with hardware manufacturers, datacenter and network providers, logistics partners and other service providers in support of our 330+ cities and 125+ countries
• Maintain Data Center environment operational availability
• Leverage AI tools to automate repetitive operational tasks, accelerate documentation, and speed up troubleshooting and root-cause analysis
• Creating and maintaining documentation, plans, SOP’s, MOP’s etc.
• Support and configure network infrastructure where required
• Providing feedback to internal teams to support internal tools and external vendor partnerships

Skills

Juniper

Cisco

DWDM

Linux

Remote contractors

Automation tooling

Data center operations

Program management (JIRA)

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering / computer science / MIS

Tools

JIRA

DCIM tools

Job description

Cloudflare, a leader in global internet infrastructure, is seeking a Data Center Operations engineer to keep the world’s largest network running at peak efficiency. The role focuses on maintaining data center infrastructure, collaborating with SRE, network engineering, and deployment teams, and driving automation to improve delivery and operational stability across remote colocation facilities.

You’ll work in a fast-paced, globally distributed environment, managing contractor relationships,