Available Locations: Atlanta, GA, Austin, TX, Denver, CO, New York, NY, Washington, DC
About the role:
Cloudflare provides advisory and hands-on-keyboard implementation and migration services for enterprise customers. As a Professional Services Consultant for Application Services, you are an individual contributor working in the post-sales landscape, responsible for the technical execution of solutions and guidance to our customers to get the most value possible from their Cloudflare investment. You are an expert in Layer 7 products like: DDoS Protection, WAF, API Gateway, Bot Management, Certificates Manager, Rate Limiting, SSL and Page Shield.
This position has working hours Monday to Friday 09:00 a.m. to 06:00 p.m. Occasionally, we support our customers during the weekends for specific changes that need to be done outside of their business hours. Travel is expected around 30%.
What you will do:
- Plan and deliver timely and organized services for customers, ensure customers see the full value in Cloudflare's products and advice on product best practices.
- Gather business and technical requirements, use cases and any other information required to build, migrate and deliver a solution on behalf of the customer and transition the Cloudflare working environment to the customer.
- Produce a Solution Design, HLD, LLD, data-builds, procedures, scripts, test plans, drawings, deployment plan, migration plan, as-builts, and any other artifacts necessary to deliver the solution and transition smoothly into the customer's technical teams.
- Implement changes on behalf of the customer in the Cloudflare environment following the customer's change management process.
- Provide guidance to the customer to configure their CPEs and integration points.
- Troubleshoot implementation issues and collaborate with Customer Support, Engineering and other teams to assist technical escalations.
- Contribute towards the success of the organization through knowledge sharing activities such as contributing to internal and external documentation, answering technical Q&A, and helping to iterate on best practices.
- Support building operational assets like templates, automation scripts, procedures, workflows, etc.
Experience might include a combination of the skills below:
- 5+ years of experience in a customer facing position as a Customer Engineer, Security Engineer, Implementation Engineer, Onboarding Engineer, Consultant, Technical Support Engineer, Solutions Architect, and/or Systems Engineer.
- Layers and protocols of the OSI model, such as TCP/IP, TLS, DNS, HTTP.
- Deep understanding of Internet and Security technologies such as DDoS, Web Application Firewall, Certificates, DNS, CDN, Analytics and Logs.
- Demonstrated experience with a scripting language (e.g. Python, JavaScript, Bash) and a desire to expand those skills.
- Working experience with security aspects of an internet property, such as Firewalls, WAFs, Bot Management, Rate Limiting, (M)TLS.
- Performance aspects of an internet property, such as Speed, Latency, Caching, HTTP/2, TLSv1.3.
- Working experience with infrastructure as code tools like Terraform.
- Ability to manage a project, work to deadlines, prioritize between competing demands and manage uncertainty.
- The work will be performed in English. Fluency in Spanish or Portuguese is a strong advantage.
Compensation
Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.
- For Colorado, New York and Texas based: Estimated annual salary of $159,000.00 - $195,000.00
- For New York City, Washington, DC Metro and California based (excluding Bay Area): Estimated annual salary of $176,000.00 - $215,000.00
- For San Francisco Bay Area based hires: Estimated annual salary of $184,000.00 - 224,000.00
Equity
This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare's equity plan.
Benefits
Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family. Our benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses, support caregiving, build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun! The below is a description of our benefits for employees in the United States, and benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S.
Health & Welfare Benefits
- Medical/Rx Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Commuter Spending Accounts
- Fertility & Family Forming Benefits
- On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
- Global Travel Medical Insurance
Financial Benefits
- Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
- Life & Accident Insurance
- 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
- Employee Stock Participation Plan
Time Off
- Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
- Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave
