System Engineer, Netsys

Available Locations: Lisbon, Portugal
About the Department
Cloudflare's Network Engineering Team builds and runs the infrastructure that runs our software. The Engineering Team is split into two groups: one handles product development and the other handles operations. Product development covers both new features and functionality and scaling our existing software to meet the challenges of a massively growing customer base. The operations team handles one of the world's largest networks with data centers in 190 cities worldwide and a couple of large specialized data centers for internal needs.
About the Position
Cloudflare operates a large global network spanning hundreds of cities (data centers). You will join a team of talented network automation engineers who are building software solutions to improve network resilience and reduce engineering operational toil.
You will work on a range of tools, infrastructure and services - new and existing - with an aim to elegantly and efficiently solve problems and deliver practical, maintainable and scalable solutions.
Examples Of Desirable Skills, Knowledge And Experience

• BA/BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Solid foundation on configuration management frameworks: Ansible, Chef, Saltstack.
• Knowledge of programming languages like Python or Golang.
• Highly Proficient with modern Unix/Linux operating systems/distributions
• Experience with CI/CD, containers and/or virtualization, web servers, and databases
• Experience in systems Observability

Bonus Points but not required:

• Professional experience as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
• Knowledge of Networking engineering, with competencies in Layer 2 and Layer 3 protocols and vendor equipment: Cisco, Juniper, etc.
• Experience building and maintaining large distributed systems
• Experience managing internal and/or external customer requirements and expectations
• Knowledge of Javascript (React and other frontend frameworks)