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Data Center Strategy - Edge

Cloudflare· Infrastructure
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Hybrid (San Francisco / Austin / Seattle / New York)$166k - $271kFull-timePosted 5d ago

About the role

Data Center Strategy role within Cloudflare’s global Infrastructure strategy team focusing on expanding and optimizing the company’s data center/PoP footprint, negotiating with data center vendors, and driving sourcing best practices in a high-growth environment.

Responsibilities

  • Define regional vendor strategy for data centers
  • Own deals end to end involving new and existing data center vendors and sites to support Cloudflare’s infrastructure growth including planning, RFP, commercial negotiation and execution
  • Work cross-functionally with legal, operations, capacity planning, network strategy and security teams to understand requirements and project timelines
  • Establish and conduct scheduled QBR and other vendor management activities with top category partners
  • Represent Cloudflare credibly to external partner C-level senior management and at public conferences/events
  • Expert point of contact for internal business customers & external colocation partner vendors as needed
  • Contribute information to annual data center budget for effective tracking and benchmarking of infrastructure costs
  • Review colocation spend & invoices for management approval
  • Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

  • 10+ years in planning and managing data center footprints within a fast moving enterprise technology organization or cloud services, software or colocation company
  • Ability to multi-task and manage complex projects across multiple teams and geographies within set deadlines
  • Ability to navigate, solve problems and answer questions with minimal supervision
  • Relationship management experience and excellent communication skills
  • Demonstrated experience in commercial negotiation
  • Experience with rack, site power and white space planning (data center sales engineering) a plus
  • Experience with or understanding of network concepts a plus
  • Experience in budget planning, financial analysis, or other analytical role a plus
  • Experience with Jira a plus
  • Multilingual and/or experience living/working/conducting business in another country a plus
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required

Skills

Required:Vendor strategyCommercial negotiationProject management
Nice to have:Budget planning/financial analysisJira

Benefits

  • Health & Welfare Benefits: Medical/Rx, Dental, Vision, Flexible Spending Accounts, Commuter Spending Accounts, Fertility & Family Forming Benefits, On-demand mental health support and EAP, Global Travel Medical Insurance
  • Financial Benefits: Short and Long Term Disability, Life & Accident Insurance, 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan, Employee Stock Participation Plan
  • Time Off: Flexible paid time off, parental/pregnancy health/medical/bereavement leave
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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