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Austin, Texas, United States
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At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.
At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in.
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Position Overview
Cloudflare is looking for a Senior Manager to lead a unified Infrastructure Operations function spanning physical network reliability, operational security, and global regulatory compliance across 750+ data center sites in 125+ countries. The leader in this role ensures 24x7 operational availability of Cloudflare's network infrastructure through incident response, hardware break-fix, circuit management, and physical hardware lifecycle operations. This leader also owns physical access control policy and administration, periodic access reviews, and evidence-based compliance delivery across SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, ISMAP, and IRAP.
You will lead two teams, setting organizational direction, building talent, and being accountable for outcomes across the full lifecycle of Cloudflare's physical infrastructure: from how hardware is deployed and maintained, to how access is controlled and reviewed, to how assets are securely retired and evidenced for audit. The breadth of this scope demands a leader who can hold the org-level tensions, speed versus rigor, global scale versus precise detail, partner dependency versus uncompromising standards, without losing either end.
You will bring credibility across both dimensions of this role. On the infrastructure side, a strong grasp of data center colocation environments, network architecture, and hardware operations as well as the judgment to lead managers and teams who live in that world every day. On the compliance side, the organizational instinct to maintain audit readiness continuously, not just at cycle time, and the stakeholder fluency to navigate relationships with GRC, government auditors, and strategic global partners. Above all, you will bring a bias toward building smarter processes, better tooling, and AI-assisted operations that multiply your team's capacity as Cloudflare's footprint continues to grow.
What You'll Do
Team Leadership
Unified Decommissioning Lifecycle
Maintain Team Operational Accountability
DCSC Compliance & Access Control Accountability
Automation & Operational Efficiency
Who You Are
An experienced infrastructure operations leader. You have managed engineering teams responsible for large-scale, globally distributed physical or network infrastructure. You know how to hold a team accountable to 24x7 operational standards while also driving longer-horizon strategic work. You don't lose sight of the incident queue while building the roadmap.
Comfortable at the compliance/operations intersection. You don't need to be a GRC expert, but you understand why physical access controls matter for SOC 2 and FedRAMP, why the decommissioning chain of custody is an audit control, and why a missed quarterly access review has real consequences. You approach compliance not as overhead but as a non-negotiable quality dimension of operational work.
You ensure the teams you're inheriting are operationally capable but structurally manual. You see automation as a force multiplier and have a track record of reducing operational toil through process design, tooling investment, and thoughtful prioritization, not just through headcount.
A strong people leader with a coaching instinct. You manage managers. You know how to develop them, set clear expectations, give direct feedback, and create the conditions for high-performing teams. You build trust across functions and are comfortable representing your organization at the executive level.
Energized by global complexity. Your teams operate across APAC, EMEA, and NASA time zones, spanning hundreds of vendors, data center providers, and regulatory jurisdictions. You thrive in this environment rather than being overwhelmed by it.
Required Experience
Preferred Qualifications
Reporting Structure
This role reports to the Director, Infrastructure Operations (AMER) and is part of the broader Infrastructure Operations leadership team.
Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.
For Colorado based hires: Estimated annual salary of $156,000 - $215,000.
We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re 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, we've equipped more than 2,400 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 Cloudflare’s 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, we've 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. Here’s the deal - we don’t 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 you’d like to be a part of? We’d love to hear from you!
Please note that applicants who progress to the offer stage of the interview process may be asked to attend an in-person interview within one of the Cloudflare Offices or Cloudflare Hubs. More details about this will be available at that stage of the interview process.
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