At Cloudflare, we're 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.

We protect and accelerate 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.

The Role

As a Senior Strategic Solutions Engineer, you will be a customer-facing hands-on technologist with credibility built on domain expertise across the region. You should have solid experience in influencing enterprise architecture design across various senior buyer personas both at customers and partner organizations.

Your role will be to convince these decision makers of the long-term value of thinking of Cloudflare as a strategic technology partner. You will work as a part of a highly visible structured pursuit team attached to designated strategic accounts, working to understand their unique business challenges and priorities with a goal of defining short and long-term solution architecture with Cloudflare as a centrepiece.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain the long-term technical relationship of key accounts, ensuring the successful design, proof, and adoption of Cloudflare as a part of the customers' critical infrastructure.

• Identify and drive strategic conversations with key stakeholders with the purpose of increasing our reputation and authority within the business, and further establishing our footprint within the customers' landscape.

• Be the voice of the customer, engaging and influencing Product Management and Product Roadmap to serve their needs.

• Demonstrate your expertise of Cloudflare within your field through the creation of professional content, including white papers, reference architectures, blog posts, and demo proof-of-concept labs.

• Represent and evangelize Cloudflare externally at Developer, Community, Technology, Cybersecurity, and Industry-focused events with thought leadership and expertise.

• Apply in-depth vertical knowledge or domain expertise. Advise on best practices.

Requirements

• 10+ years of relevant experience

• Experience interacting with senior-level executives to communicate a message of network and security transformation

• Fundamental understanding of customer network and application architectures

• Detailed understanding of workflow from user to application including hybrid architectures with Azure, AWS, GCP

• Secure Web Gateway, CASB, DLP, DNS, DNS over HTTPS

• IdP/authentication, SAML, OTP

• SaaS application integration and tenant controls

• VPN and remote access challenges

• SIEM and log analytics platforms

• Client OS fundamentals and software distribution

• Ability to jump in with hands-on configuration when needed

Preferred Skills

• Routing, subnetting, split tunnels. SD-WAN, local internet breakout

• End-user and application security risks

• DDoS, malware, phishing, viruses

• Knowledge of competitive market around CDN providers, Web application Firewall, Remote access solutions, Next-generation Firewalls, CASB solutions, DDOS mitigations solutions, SD-WAN solutions, Secure Gateway solutions

• Ideally knowledge of Cloudflare ZTNA solutions such as Teams, Access, Gateway, and Browser Isolation

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!

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This executive leadership role is responsible for the design, implementation, and governance of a secure, resilient, and high-performing infrastructure that includes enterprise networking, global security services, identity and access management, telephony and unified communications, and contact center platforms.

Spanning on-premise data centers, multi-cloud environments, and global corporate offices, you will establish comprehensive security frameworks, policies, and standards required to protect our corporate assets and data.

The ideal candidate is a transformational leader who can protect the enterprise from evolving cyber threats while delivering a robust technology foundation that enables business innovation and agility.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic & Architectural Leadership:

• Develop and own the enterprise architecture vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap for the network and security portfolio, ensuring tight alignment with business goals and digital transformation initiatives.

• Lead the creation, governance, and promotion of architectural standards, patterns, and best practices for all covered services, including Zero Trust (ZTNA) and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) frameworks.

• Drive modernization initiatives across the portfolio, guiding the transition from traditional architectures to modern, automated, and cloud-native solutions to enhance security and eliminate legacy technical debt.

• Champion a culture of innovation by evaluating emerging technologies and providing architectural direction for their adoption to solve complex business problems.

• Serve as the primary architectural authority for the enterprise across network, telephony, and security domains, providing expert guidance to executive leadership, business stakeholders, and technology teams.

Domain-Specific Architectural Oversight: Lead and mentor a team of architects, ensuring architectural integrity and strategic alignment across the following key domains:

• Global Network Architecture: Oversee the architecture for all network infrastructure, including SD-WAN, LAN/WAN, Wi-Fi, DNS/DHCP/IPAM, and data center networking.

• Global Security Architecture: Define the strategy for enterprise-wide security services, including next-generation firewalls (NGFW), IDS/IPS, WAF, CASB, and data loss prevention (DLP).

• Identity & Access Management (IAM): Lead the architectural vision for all IAM services, including authentication, authorization, single sign-on (SSO), multi-factor authentication (MFA), and privileged access management (PAM).

• Platform Security: Drive the security architecture for underlying infrastructure platforms, including operating systems, virtualization, and container platforms (Kubernetes).

• Telephony & Contact Center: Direct the architectural strategy for unified communications (UCaaS/VoIP) and contact center (CCaaS) platforms, ensuring they are secure, resilient, and integrated with enterprise systems.

Executive Leadership & Stakeholder Engagement:

• Lead, mentor, and cultivate a high-performing team of principal and senior architects, fostering a collaborative environment of technical excellence and strong business acumen.

• Build and maintain strong, trust-based relationships with C-level executives, business unit leaders, and engineering teams to ensure architectural solutions meet enterprise-wide objectives.

• Act as a key influencer and communicator, articulating complex architectural concepts and their business value to diverse audiences, from technical experts to non-technical executives.

• Partner closely with the CISO organization and IT operations to ensure that architectural designs are effectively implemented, monitored, and compliant with regulatory requirements.

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, or a related field required. Master’s degree preferred.

• Experience: Minimum of 15 years of experience in information technology, with at least 10 years in an architecture role spanning network, security, or infrastructure. Minimum of 5 years in a formal leadership capacity, with proven experience managing, mentoring, and developing senior architects and technical staff.

• Technical Skills: Security Architecture: Deep expertise in security frameworks and technologies, including Zero Trust, SASE, NGFW, IDS/IPS, SIEM, WAF, CASB, DLP, and endpoint security. Identity & Access Management: Expert knowledge of IAM principles and protocols (SAML, OAuth, OIDC), and experience with IGA, MFA, and PAM solutions. Network Architecture: Expert knowledge of modern networking principles and technologies, including SD-WAN, BGP, MPLS, VPN, DNS, DHCP, and data center networking. Cloud Security: Expert knowledge of cloud networking and security architecture in AWS, Azure, and/or GCP (e.g., VPCs/VNETs, Security Groups, IAM, Cloud WAFs).

• Soft Skills & Leadership Qualities: Executive Presence: Confident and articulate communicator with the ability to present to and influence senior executives and board-level stakeholders. Strategic Vision: Ability to think long-term and create a compelling, business-aligned vision for the future state of the technology landscape. Collaborative Leadership: Proven ability to lead through influence, build consensus across diverse teams, and foster strong cross-functional partnerships. Business Acumen: Strong ability to understand business drivers and translate them into technical requirements and architectural solutions that deliver tangible value.

Preferred Qualifications

• Professional certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CCIE, TOGAF (at least one required). Expert-level cloud architecture or security certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Security - Specialty, Azure Security Engineer Expert) highly preferred. Experience managing departmental budgets and participating in financial planning. Experience leading a group of at least 5 enterprise architects.

Benefits

This position comes with competitive compensation and benefits package:

1. Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses

1. Comprehensive benefits package

1. Career development and training opportunities

1. Flexible work arrangements (remote and/or office-based)

1. Dynamic and inclusive work culture within a globally renowned group

1. Private Health Insurance

1. Pension Plan

1. Paid Time Off

1. Training & Development

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About the Role: The Security Engineering team's mission is to safeguard our AI systems and maintain the trust of our users and society at large. Whether we're developing critical security infrastructure, building secure development practices, or partnering with our research and product teams, we are committed to operating as a world-class security organization and keeping the safety and trust of our users at the forefront of everything we do.

Responsibilities:

• Build security for large-scale AI clusters, implementing robust cloud security architecture including IAM, network segmentation, and encryption controls

• Design secure-by-design workflows, secure CI/CD pipelines across our services, help build secure cloud infrastructure, with expertise in various cloud environments, Kubernetes security, container orchestration and identity management

• Ship and operate secure, high-reliability services using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) practices and GitOps workflows

• Apply deep expertise in threat modeling and risk assessment to secure complex multi cloud environments

• Mentor engineers and contribute to hiring and growth of the Security team

Requirements:

• 5-15+ years of software engineering experience implementing and maintaining critical systems at scale

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering or equivalent industry experience

• Strong software engineering skills in Python or at least one systems language (Go, Rust, C/C++)

• Experience managing infrastructure at scale with DevOps and cloud automation best practices

• Track record of driving engineering excellence through high standards, constructive code reviews, and mentorship

• Proven ability to lead cross-functional security initiatives and navigate complex organizational dynamics

• Outstanding communication skills, translating technical concepts effectively across all organizational levels

• Demonstrated success in bringing clarity and ownership to ambiguous technical problems

• Strong systems thinking with ability to identify and mitigate risks in complex environments

• Low ego, high empathy engineer who attracts talent and supports diverse, inclusive teams

• Experience supporting fast-paced startup engineering teams

• Passionate about AI safety and alignment, with keen interest in making AI systems more interpretable and aligned with human values

Salary: The annual compensation range for this role is £240,000-£325,000 GBP.

Experience Level: senior Employment Type: full-time Workplace Type: hybrid Category: Engineering Industry: Technology Salary Range: £240,000-£325,000 GBP Required Skills:

• Cloud security architecture
• IAM
• Network segmentation
• Encryption controls
• Kubernetes security
• Container orchestration
• Identity management
• Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)
• GitOps
• Threat modeling
• Risk assessment
• DevOps
• Cloud automation
• Python
• Go
• Rust
• C/C++

Preferred Skills:

• Secure-by-design workflows
• CI/CD pipelines
• Secure cloud infrastructure
• Cloud environments
• Containerization
• Identity and access management

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