Infrastructure Network & Supply Engineer - FTC (6 months)
Cloudflare · Lisbon, Portugal · 12h ago
About Us
At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.
At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in.
Available Locations: Lisbon, Portugal
This is a 6-month Fixed Term Contract.
About the role
Cloudflare is scaling one of the largest global networks on the Internet, and capacity planning is what keeps that growth ahead of demand. As an Infrastructure Network & Supply Planner on our Infrastructure Capacity Planning team you'll build the products, tools, and AI agents that turn growth and demand forecasts into scalable, execution-ready infrastructure expansions, ensuring the right capacity is in the right place, at the right time and cost, in the shortest time possible.
You'll design and ship internal products — forecasting models, planning systems, dashboards, and automated workflows — that make end-to-end infrastructure readiness faster, cheaper, and more reliable at global scale
You'll refine and create new AI agents to model demand into supply, network, and capacity scenarios and surface risks early, producing force multipliers that let planners see the whole system and act quickly — shifting time from reactive task-processing to proactive strategy, and scaling impact. You'll partner across planning, operations, procurement, logistics, engineering, and finance to keep Cloudflare's global deployments moving smoothly.
What you'll do
Infrastructure Capacity & Expansion Planning
- Translate demand forecasts into infrastructure capacity plans that support business growth, aligning hardware deployments with performance, cost, and timeline targets.
- Ensure infrastructure readiness across space, power, connectivity, and hardware availability, identifying capacity constraints early and coordinating mitigation.
Deployment Planning & Execution Coordination
- Build quarterly and weekly deployment plans that are realistic, balanced, and optimized for execution efficiency across operations, logistics, integration partners, and engineering teams.
- Track progress, resolve blockers, and maintain deployment momentum across the global fleet.
Supply, Inventory & Lifecycle Readiness
- Partner with Procurement and Data Center teams to ensure hardware and resources are available at the right time and locations, and manage inventory to balance availability, cost efficiency, and operational risk.
- Support hardware refresh and asset lifecycle planning, and align infrastructure investments with budget and growth plans alongside Finance.
AI-First Products, Automation & Continuous Improvement
- Design, build, and ship internal products — forecasting models, dashboards, planning systems, and automated workflows — using AI/agentic tooling to structure messy data, run scenario analyses, and improve planning accuracy.
- Identify high-leverage opportunities to automate repetitive work, introduce new tools and methodologies, and continuously improve how planning and deployment operate at scale.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Act as a central layer across planning, operations, engineering, logistics, procurement, and finance to keep Cloudflare's global deployments moving smoothly.
Desirable Skills, Knowledge, and Experience:
- Experience in capacity planning, infrastructure planning, production/operations planning, supply planning, or a related technical planning role.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with experience across complex operational systems and managing multiple priorities in fast-paced environments.
- Hands-on experience building tools, automation, or internal products
- Fluency with AI tools in daily work, and a genuine appetite to use and create AI/agentic tooling to scale decision-making and eliminate manual toil.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills.
Compensation
Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.
- For Portugal based hires: Estimated annual salary of €36,000-50,000.
What Makes Cloudflare Special?
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. Here’s the deal - we don’t store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.
Sound like something you’d like to be a part of? We’d love to hear from you!
Please note that applicants who progress to the offer stage of the interview process may be asked to attend an in-person interview within one of the Cloudflare Offices or Cloudflare Hubs. More details about this will be available at that stage of the interview process.
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