Data Center Network Operations Engineer

Atlanta, GAfull timeRemote

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mid

$126k–$174k

H1B: no

Cloudflare Data Center Network Operations Engineer at Cloudflare maintains and improves the global network infrastructure by collaborating with SRE, Network Engineering, and vendors. The role involves developing processes and visibility measurements for effective infrastructure management.

Responsibilities

To be successful in this position, you should have excellent technical skills, communication skills, and be able to navigate a range of challenges and constraints (e.g. schedule adherence, time zones, and cultures). You will have the opportunity to (literally) build a faster, safer Internet for our millions of users and the billions of web surfers that visit their sites each month.
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
Required Experience
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

Qualification

Multi-lingualLinux certifications (RHCSA etcNetwork certifications (CCNA

Preferred

Multi-lingual; experience working with infrastructure in multiple countries
Comfortable with remote “lights-out” and out-of-band access to data center resources
Linux certifications (RHCSA etc.)
Network certifications (CCNA, JNCIA or higher)
Configuration management systems such as Saltstack, Chef, Puppet or Ansible
Scripting or software development experience in Bash, Python or Go-lang
Familiarity with load balancing and reverse proxies such as Nginx, Varnish, HAProxy, Apache
Experience in working within a large scale SaaS vendor