Cloudflare
Senior Manager, Infrastructure Operations and Compliance
$156K–$251K
Hybrid +5 · Manager · Full-time · Posted Sep 14, 2026
- Location
- Hybrid
Atlanta, GA
Austin, TX, United States
Denver, Colorado, United States
Seattle, WA
Washington, DC, United States - Experience
- 7+ years in a relevant infrastructure operations field, with at least 3 years in a people management role.
- Visa sponsorship
- Any offer may be conditioned on authorization to receive software or technology controlled under U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.
About the job
Leads Cloudflare’s infrastructure operations and security/compliance teams, overseeing global data center reliability, physical access controls, decommissioning, audit readiness, and operational automation.
What you'll do
- Lead two teams and maintain 24x7 infrastructure incident response, hardware operations, and service-level accountability.
- Own the governed asset decommissioning lifecycle, including secure destruction, vendor management, and audit evidence.
- Oversee global physical access reviews and compliance obligations, while advancing automation and AI-assisted workflows.
What they ask for
- 7+ years in infrastructure operations, data center operations, network operations, or a closely related field, including at least 3 years in people management.
- Experience managing managers and holding multiple teams accountable to operational SLAs.
- Direct experience with physical data center operations, such as hardware lifecycle management, decommissioning, colocation vendor management, or break-fix operations.
- Familiarity with physical-infrastructure compliance frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, or equivalent, at an operational level.
Nice to have
- Experience managing 24x7 on-call operations teams, including PagerDuty or equivalent tooling.
- Knowledge of ITAD vendor management and secure-destruction compliance requirements.
Pay
$156,000 - $215,000 USD base salary; $182,000 - $251,000 USD base salary
Tools
PagerDuty, Jira, Netbox, Confluence, DCSC Portal
AI focus
Evaluate and adopt AI tooling for repetitive operational tasks, documentation acceleration, root-cause analysis, and compliance evidence generation; guide AI-assisted workflows to reduce manual operational work.
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