Network Deployment Engineer

Atlanta, GAfull timeRemote

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$114k–$157k

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Cloudflare Network Deployment Engineer at Cloudflare focused on building and expanding the global network infrastructure. Collaborates with SRE, Network Engineering, vendors, and partners to maintain and improve datacenter infrastructure.

Responsibilities

This is a highly visible position that requires deep technical understanding of datacenter infrastructure, networking (physical), and basic experience with data analysis and project management.
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.
Role Responsibilities
Provisioning, monitoring and maintaining hardware, software, and network in new Cloudflare data centers.
Perform server administration tasks remotely using IPMI/BMC tools, including server provisioning, monitoring, troubleshooting and firmware updates.
Perform network configuration tasks to network devices in greenfield deployment and brownfield migration activities.
Managing remote contractors to complete datacenter installations and upgrades (rack and stack), including coordinating with hardware manufacturers, datacenter and network providers, logistics partners and other service providers in support of our 700+ growing datacenter locations.
Build automation to eliminate repetitive work using Python scripts, and Changie.
Our team actively develops agentic AI tools to reduce admin overhead and handling other toil.
Planning and implementing network and server installations, including in the areas of facility power (AC/DC), cooling, security/access, rack layout and cable management.
Providing technical leadership and guidance to remote contractors and junior team members during deployment activities—walking them through configurations, troubleshooting steps, and quality checks.
Creating and maintaining documentation, plans, SOPs, MOPs and runbooks.

Qualification

Linux certifications

Required

Minimum of 2 years of related data center or Linux systems administration experience
Linux/Unix systems administration experience

Preferred

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 (on-call rotation required)
Knowledge of the OSI-model and experience isolating network, hardware and software issues.