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Data Center Engineer

Cloudflare· Infrastructure
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Hybrid (Multiple locations including Austin, Atlanta, Seattle, Washington DC, Denver)$120k - $165kPosted 4w ago

About the role

Data Center Engineer role at Cloudflare focusing on maintaining the global network, working with SRE, Network Engineering, and vendors to manage and improve infrastructure across remote colocation facilities, with emphasis on automation, documentation, and operational stability.

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

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.

Skills

Required:Juniper, Cisco and DWDM network equipmentLinux system administration

Benefits

  • Health & Welfare Benefits
  • Medical/Rx Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Commuter Spending Accounts
  • Fertility & Family Forming Benefits
  • On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
  • Global Travel Medical Insurance
  • Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
  • Life & Accident Insurance
  • 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
  • Employee Stock Participation Plan
  • Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
  • Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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