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CloudflareData Center Strategy - Edge
Cloudflare seeks a strategy professional to join its infrastructure team, focusing on expanding the company’s global footprint of colocation sites and points of presence. This role…
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Cloudflare seeks a strategy professional to join its infrastructure team, focusing on expanding the company’s global footprint of colocation sites and points of presence. This role is responsible for driving vendor strategy, managing contract negotiations, and optimizing unit costs for edge data centers. Cloudflare runs a massive global network that protects and accelerates internet applications for millions of properties, ranging from individual blogs to major enterprises, while championing initiatives for…
Job Description
Cloudflare seeks a strategy professional to join its infrastructure team, focusing on expanding the company’s global footprint of colocation sites and points of presence. This role is responsible for driving vendor strategy, managing contract negotiations, and optimizing unit costs for edge data centers.
Cloudflare runs a massive global network that protects and accelerates internet applications for millions of properties, ranging from individual blogs to major enterprises, while championing initiatives for a free and open internet.
The ideal candidate brings extensive experience in managing data center footprints within cloud services or enterprise technology companies, excels at handling multiple complex projects concurrently, and possesses strong commercial negotiation abilities.
Responsibilities
- Define regional vendor strategy for data centers
- Manage end-to-end deals involving new and existing data center vendors and sites
- Collaborate cross-functionally with legal, operations, capacity planning, network strategy, and security teams
- Conduct scheduled quarterly business reviews and vendor management activities with top partners
- Represent the organization credibly to external partner C-level executives and at public events
- Contribute data to the annual data center budget for cost tracking and benchmarking
- Review colocation spending and invoices for management approval
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience planning and managing data center footprints in a fast-moving enterprise technology, cloud services, software, or colocation organization
- Demonstrated experience in commercial negotiation
- Strong multi-tasking and project management skills across multiple teams and geographies
- Relationship management experience and communication skills
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
Qualifications
- Experience with rack, site power, and white space planning
- Understanding of network concepts
- Background in budget planning, financial analysis, or other analytical roles
- Experience with Jira
- Multilingual abilities or experience living, working, or conducting business internationally
- Experience with sale-leasebacks, joint ventures, or power-procurement work
- Existing relationships with developers, wholesale operators, brokers, or utilities
- Familiarity with high-density or liquid-cooling site constraints and government incentives
Core Skills
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Flexible spending and commuter spending accounts
- Fertility and family forming benefits
- On-demand mental health support and employee assistance program
- Global travel medical insurance
- Short and long-term disability insurance
- Life and accident insurance
- 401(k) retirement savings plan
- Employee stock participation plan
- Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
- Parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave programs
Frequently Asked Questions
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What is the salary range for this role?
The estimated annual salary ranges from $166,000 to $271,000 for Bay Area hires, and $158,000 to $257,000 for New York or Seattle based hires, depending on location.
What are the core requirements for applicants?
Applicants must have ten or more years of experience in data center footprint planning and management within enterprise technology, cloud, software, or colocation environments, along with commercial negotiation expertise and a bachelor's degree or equivalent.
Is this position remote?
The posting lists the employment type as full-time, but does not explicitly designate the role as remote, hybrid, or on-site, though applicants progressing to the offer stage may be asked to attend an in-person interview at a Cloudflare office or hub.
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