Data Center Deployment Engineer
Cloudflare
full-time
Posted on:
Location: Colorado • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $93,000 - $135,000 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
AnsibleApacheChefHAProxyiOSLinuxNGINXPuppetSaltStack
About the role
- Focused on the build out and expansion of Cloudflare’s global network
- Work closely with SRE, Network Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, Project Managers, vendors and partners to maintain and improve global infrastructure
- Develop and implement consistent processes and visibility measurements for effective management of infrastructure
- Provisioning, monitoring and maintaining hardware, software, and network in new Cloudflare data centers
- Create documentation and manage remote contractors to complete datacenter installations and upgrades (rack and stack)
- Introduce cutting-edge technology and automation solutions to improve deployment and maintenance scalability
- Plan and implement network and server installations, including facility power (AC/DC), cooling, security/access, rack layout and cable management
- Provide technical leadership and guidance during deployment activities
- Create and maintain documentation, plans, SOPs, MOPs
- Collaborate with internal teams for day to day activities
- Coordinate installation of cross-connects globally in support of physical network expansion
- Assist with definition, documentation and implementation of consistent processes across regions
- Limited travel
Requirements
- 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
- Bachelor’s degree or 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 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
- Experience with load balancing and reverse proxies such as Nginx, Varnish, HAProxy, Apache
- Proficient in one or more programming languages
- 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
- Bonus: Multi-lingual; experience working with infrastructure in multiple countries
- Bonus: Experience with continuous / rapid deployment
- Bonus: Experience working in a 24/7/365 mission-critical service environment
- Bonus: Comfortable with remote “lights-out” and out-of-band access to data center resources
- Bonus: Linux certifications
- Bonus: Knowledge of the OSI-model and experience isolating network, hardware and software issues