Network Deployment Engineer

• 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. • Knowledge and exposure to Network Protocols, Topologies and Enterprise architecture. • Experience writing network configuration and design documentation. • Experience with network and server installation, configuration, and troubleshooting. • Experience with remote “lights-out” and out-of-band access to data center resources (IPMI/BMC for remote server administration). • Experience solving problems through automation. • Experience running and improving operational processes in a rapidly changing environment. • Strong verbal and written communication skills, problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and interpersonal skills. Must be proactive and have an ever inquiring mindset. • Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, MIS, or a related field is a plus. • Direct experience executing on datacenter / infrastructure projects with many moving parts. • Experience installing / maintaining datacenter (and other IT) infrastructure and DCIM tools. • Understanding of BGP and anycast routing. • Good working knowledge of Juniper Junos, Cisco IOS, Cisco NX-OS and Arista EOS. • Proficient in one or more programming languages and willing to learn new ones when required. • Ability to write scripts for internal tools. • 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. • Multi-lingual; experience working with infrastructure in multiple countries. • Professional level network certification(s) (JNCIP, CCNP, etc) or higher. • Linux certifications. • Experience with continuous / rapid deployment. • Experience working in a 24/7/365 mission-critical service environment. • Knowledge of the OSI-model and experience isolating network, hardware and software issues. • 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. • Project Galileo • 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. • Athenian Project • 1.1.1.1 • Sound like something you’d like to be a part of? We’d love to hear from you! • 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.