Logistics Operations Specialist

Cloudflare•San Francisco, CA

About The Position

You will work closely with Cloudflare's Infrastructure team as well as with external vendors and partners to support the rapid growth and maintenance of our data center infrastructure. You will be responsible for coordinating the distribution and delivery of data center hardware to and from our data centers within the region. You will participate in the development and implementation of consistent processes and performance measurements, utilizing business intelligence and AI tools. You will support the team globally on infrastructure projects such as data center expansions, hardware renewals, reverse logistics and spare parts fulfillment. This is a role that requires understanding of warehousing, transportation, and requires experience with data analysis and AI tools. You will support our partners within a complex and fast moving global supply chain. This is a highly collaborative position that will require coordinating with: Warehousing providers, freight forwarders, importer of record partners, customs brokers and data center partners to plan and execute on the delivery of data center hardware. External vendors including hardware manufacturers, rack integrators and contract vendors, across time zones, in support of our 200+ and growing data center locations. Internal teams such as Data Center Engineering, Capacity Planning, Trade Compliance, Hardware Sourcing, and Procurement.

Requirements

A minimum of 3 years of experience working with global supply chains and logistics is necessary.
Ability to be proactive with ability to learn fast and execute on multiple tasks simultaneously.
Ability to recognize areas for improvements in operational processes in a rapidly changing environment.
Python, LLM usage and AI tooling experience.
Possess strong verbal and written communication skills, problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and interpersonal skills.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting data centers or other Networking/IT hardware and infrastructure.
Multi-lingual, preferably in Spanish.

Responsibilities

Coordinating the distribution and delivery of data center hardware to and from our data centers within the region.
Participating in the development and implementation of consistent processes and performance measurements, utilizing business intelligence and AI tools.
Supporting the team globally on infrastructure projects such as data center expansions, hardware renewals, reverse logistics and spare parts fulfillment.
Coordinating with warehousing providers, freight forwarders, importer of record partners, customs brokers and data center partners to plan and execute on the delivery of data center hardware.
Coordinating with external vendors including hardware manufacturers, rack integrators and contract vendors, across time zones, in support of our 200+ and growing data center locations.
Coordinating with internal teams such as Data Center Engineering, Capacity Planning, Trade Compliance, Hardware Sourcing, and Procurement.

Benefits

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.
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We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.
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