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Cloudflare is seeking a Manager of Data Center Rack Integration to lead a multidisciplinary team responsible for hardware supply coordination, rack engineering readiness, third-party integration, and deployment coordination across the company's global infrastructure operations.
In this role, you will manage employees spanning supply-chain operations, rack integration engineering, and technical program management. You will own the team's day-to-day execution and operating model, ensuring L11 rack builds have the materials, technical requirements, supplier capacity, and deployment readiness needed to support Cloudflare's infrastructure scaling plans.
Key responsibilities include:
**Team Leadership & Development**
- Coach, develop, and hold accountable a multidisciplinary team across supply-chain operations, rack integration engineering, and technical program management
- Set priorities, clarify ownership, and develop workforce plans that expand team capabilities and capacity
**Rack Integration Operations**
- Oversee the operating model connecting capacity demand, L10 hardware supply, L11 rack production, and deployment readiness
- Establish operating reviews, escalation mechanisms, and metrics covering schedule adherence, material readiness, supplier capacity, and ERP data accuracy
**Technical Readiness & Standards**
- Lead the team's contribution to new rack architectures and L11 new product introductions in partnership with Hardware Engineering and Infrastructure Operations
- Govern BOM consistency and integration test requirements while influencing structured cabling and data center standards
**Supplier & Commercial Leadership**
- Drive relationships with global L11 integration suppliers, including performance reviews, capacity commitments, and escalations
- Partner with Hardware Sourcing on regional expansion, commercial negotiations, and L11 operating-budget governance
**Capability Expansion**
- Develop and scale programs that increase the range of work completed through rack integration, improve lifecycle execution, and reduce deployment complexity
- Partner across Engineering, Infrastructure Operations, Security, Logistics, and Hardware Sourcing to evaluate new capabilities and turn successful pilots into repeatable global operations
**Process & Tooling Transformation**
- Optimize enterprise workflows, including Oracle ERP, to create documented, repeatable, and data-driven operations
- Promote AI-assisted analysis and automation to improve operational efficiency, decision quality, and executive reporting
This role requires a blend of strategic leadership and hands-on operational engagement. As the team grows, you will establish systems, accountability, and leadership capacity that allow execution to scale.
**Requirements**
- **People Leadership:** Proven track record in people management, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and scaling multidisciplinary operational or technical teams
- **Hardware & Integration Operations:** Broad experience leading hardware manufacturing, supply-chain operations, systems integration, or hyperscale infrastructure programs across external contract manufacturers (CMs), ODMs, or global suppliers
- **Domain Technical Depth:** Operational knowledge of rack-level server, network, power, cabling, and manufacturing considerations sufficient to guide technical specialists, challenge assumptions, and make informed operational decisions
- **Supplier & Program Governance:** Demonstrated success managing supplier performance, capacity escalations, commercial reviews, and complex cross-functional programs spanning engineering, procurement, and logistics
- **Process & Financial Acumen:** Strong judgment in managing operational budgets, demand forecasts, production metrics, and cross-functional process development
- **Global Collaboration & Travel:** Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders across global time zones and periodic travel for supplier reviews
**Preferred Qualifications**
- Experience with hyperscale data center deployment readiness, colocation environments, or rack lifecycle and decommissioning programs
- Direct experience introducing new hardware products into contract manufacturing environments
- Experience expanding hardware manufacturing or integration capabilities through controlled pilots, cross-functional readiness reviews, and operational standards
- Experience optimizing data-driven operations through enterprise platforms such as Oracle ERP or AI-assisted automation tooling
- Track record of expanding global supplier capacity through RFPs, facility assessments, and commercial negotiations
