Remote Senior Data Center Provisioning Engineer

Fastly; Denver (CO); Hybrid; USD 122,000 - 173,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Employee Stock Purchase Program

12 paid local holidays and wellness/fć

Job summary

Fastly is seeking a Senior Data Center Provisioning Engineer to configure and deploy servers, network devices, and supporting infrastructure across global PoPs. You will partner with hardware, tooling, and operations teams to build scalable provisioning processes and expand capacity while maintaining reliability.

The role requires 5+ years in provisioning roles, strong TCP/IP knowledge, and experience with Linux, scripting, and automation tools.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years experience in network devices and server provisioning, system administration, and/or site reliability engineering.
• Strong understanding of how the internet and TCP/IP work, focused on client/server dataflow.
• Strong IP routing knowledge, with a focus BGP with a deep understanding of TCP/IP.
• Understanding of how CDNs work and their position in the global internet.
• Comfort in a Linux environment, and prior experience with software/automation workflow tools such as Git, Travis, Chef, Ansible, or comparable.
• Ability to troubleshoot server, scripting, and network issues.

Responsibilities

• Provision POPs (network devices, servers and equipment), following documented standards and processes, using a variety of tools including Github, Ansible, Chef, and Fastly’s internal tool sets
• Troubleshoot and resolve problems that occur during provisioning and service turnup
• Work collaboratively with internal operations and infrastructure teams, as well as external partners, in support of error-free rapid expansion
• Contribute to the development and improvement of standards and processes for the provisioning of new infrastructure
• Partner with other Fastly teams in the development and iteration of tools and automation systems that improve how we provision the network
• Support post-deployment validation, monitoring integration, and handoff to Network Operations for steady-state management.

Skills

Network provisioning

Server provisioning

System administration

Site reliability engineering

TCP/IP fundamentals

BGP routing

CDN concepts

Linux environment

Scripting (Bash, Python)

Tools

Github

Ansible

Chef

Travis CI

Git

Internal tooling

Job description

Fastly is seeking a Senior Data Center Provisioning Engineer to configure and deploy servers, network devices, and supporting infrastructure across global PoPs. You will partner with hardware, tooling, and operations teams to build scalable provisioning processes and expand capacity while maintaining reliability.

The role requires 5+ years in provisioning roles, strong TCP/IP knowledge, and experience with Linux, scripting, and automation tools.