Network Deployment Engineer APJC

Available Location: Singapore

About the Team

In this role you will be focused on the build out and expansion of our global network. Youll work closely with Cloudflares Network Infrastructure planning team Network Engineering team Infrastructure automation team Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team Project Managers and with various vendors and partners (including hardware vendors logistics datacenter and network providers and ISPs) to plan and aggressively execute the expansion of our network. You will further be responsible for the development and implementation of consistent processes and tools for consistent and effective management of our infrastructure. This is a highly visible position that requires deep technical understanding of datacenter infrastructure physical and logical network configuration system administration server provisioning and troubleshooting 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.

Key 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 activitieswalking them through configurations troubleshooting steps and quality checks.
• Creating and maintaining documentation plans SOPs MOPs and runbooks.
• Collaborating with internal teams (Infrastructure Engineering and Planning Network Engineering and SRE) on day-to-day operations and project planning.
• Coordinating installation of cross-connects globally in support of physical network expansion.
• Assisting with the definition documentation and implementation of consistent processes and standardization across all regions.
• Limited travel.

Required Experience

• Minimum of 5 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 writing Python or Bash scripts for internal tools and workflow improvements.
• Experience running and improving operational processes in a rapidly changing environment.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills problem-solving skills and attention to detail. Must be proactive in performing due diligence e.g. checking for blockers before executing work spotting patterns in failures or process improvements.
• Experience building or working with agentic AI tools for workflow automation

Examples of desirable skills knowledge and experience

• Bachelors 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.
• Experience running and improving operational processes in a rapidly changing environment.
• Understanding of BGP and anycast routing.
• Good working knowledge of major networking and optical device OS such as Juniper Junos Cisco IOS Cisco NX-OS Arista EOS SONiC Ciena Nokia (Infinera).
• Proficient in one or more programming languages and willing to learn new ones when required.
• Ability to write scripts for internal tools and automation workflows.
• Ability to learn fast and execute on multiple tasks simultaneously while maintaining quality.
• Ability to manage MS Excel and Google Spreadsheets.
• Comfortable handling basic program management responsibilities (prioritization planning scheduling status reporting) using tools like JIRA.
• Experience managing remote contractors
• Strong team player who collaborates across functions (planning network engineering SRE vendors).

Bonus Points

• 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.

What Makes Cloudflare Special

Were not just a highly ambitious large-scale technology company. Were 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 weve equipped more than 2400 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 Cloudflares enterprise customers--at no cost.

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 weve provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.

1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Heres the deal - we dont store client IP addresses never ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.

Sound like something youd like to be a part of Wed love to hear from you!

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