At Cloudflare, we have our eyes set on an ambitious goal: to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers approximately 25 million 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. 

We realize people do not fit into neat boxes. We are looking for curious and empathetic individuals who are committed to developing themselves and learning new skills, and we are ready to help you do that. We cannot complete our mission without building a diverse and inclusive team. We hire the best people based on an evaluation of their potential and support them throughout their time at Cloudflare. Come join us! 

Available Locations: Lisbon or Remote Portugal

Manager, Consulting Services, Professional Services

Overview:

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Manager, Consulting Services for Professional Services who will be responsible for the technical delivery of consultative and hands-on-keyboard implementation and migration services for enterprise customers. 

You are the team enabler, point of reference and coach. You will grow and develop your team and make sure work loads are equally distributed within the team. You are personable and can provide constructive feedback when necessary. You will help escalate and identify issues quickly and efficiently and you will work with the other team leads and the global head to ensure proper regional & cross-regional coordination. You have a solid technical background along with leadership and management skills. 

Ultimately, you are passionate about technology, have the ability to explain complex technical concepts in easy-to-understand terms and you like coaching and teaching. You are naturally curious and an avid builder who is not afraid to get your hands dirty.

Requirements:

Demonstrable experience in:

• Professional services delivery. 
• Coaching, leadership skills or team management.
• Owning and solving escalations, team issues or other management related scenarios.
• Building processes, leveraging tools and Agile methodologies for operational excellence.
• Deep understanding of how the Internet works. 
• Layers and protocols of the OSI model, such as TCP/IP, UDP, TLS, DNS, HTTP.
• Reverse and forward proxies and the application of both.
• IPv4/6, VPNs, router and L3/L4 and next gen firewall configuration, SDN and overall IT networking related best practices.
• Demonstrated experience with BGP (network architecture, design & implementation), tunneling technologies such as GRE & IPSec, MPLS, SD-WAN, NetFlow and/or sFlow.
• 5+ years in a customer facing position. 
• Ability to work with all levels of an organization (both internally and externally) with experience of both working cross-functionally and geographically. 
• Strong interpersonal communication (verbal and written) and organizational skills.
• Highly motivated, driven and passionate about technology and customer success.
• Anticipates needs, innovates, multi-tasks and excels in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience with Salesforce and the Atlassian Suite (Confluence/JIRA). 
• The work will be performed in English. Fluency in a second European language is a must.

Inter-Team Goals

• Cultivate cross team/office/region/global coordination, keep us all connected as one team.
• Facilitate knowledge transfer between teams.  Ensure the team learns from the great ideas of single team members.  Ensure mistakes are not repeated within the team.
• Develop strong relationships outside of the Professional Services organization to aid in escalation of issues (product/support/engineering/special projects/marketing/legal/etc).

Intra-Team Goals

• Keep the pulse of the team: who is happy, productive, performing. Know each member’s strengths and how they would each like to develop.
• Exemplify and cultivate positive culture traits.
• Provide support and confidence to team members.
• Cultivate a very open communication and diverse environment. Criticism is welcome and appreciated.
• Maintain a culture of independence amongst team members whilst offering advice when appropriate.

Personal Goals

• Maintain trust and respect from the team.
• Ability to handle any call from any customer.

Responsibilities:

• Project portfolio delivery, risk management, reporting, cost management, time management and stakeholder management. 
• Workload Management.
• Conduct 1:1’s with team members.
• Act as a point of escalation for team issues, escalate issues that can’t be solved within the team.
• Recruit, interview, and onboard new team members.
• Report on individual IM’s strengths and weaknesses. Build and execute development plans.
• Continuously improve the operating model: people, processes and tools evolve for success.

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: We equip politically and artistically important organizations and journalists 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: We created 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.

Path Forward Partnership: Since 2016, we have partnered with Path Forward, a nonprofit organization, to create 16-week positions for mid-career professionals who want to get back to the workplace after taking time off to care for a child, parent, or loved one.

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!

This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Please note that any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.

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