Senior Named Solutions Engineer, Public Sector

Senior Named Solutions Engineer, Public Sector

Work Location:

London

At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the worlds 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 Magazines Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the Worlds 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 e join us!

Cloudflare’s solutions engineering function is responsible for collaborating with clients from early‑stage ideation through to planning for production. Being much more than an expert solely in Cloudflare’s services, our Senior Solutions Engineers are expected to sit alongside our peers in our clients, and to contribute their energy, ideas and opinion on solving the hard problems we face in our industry today.

Often this means deep work on the art‑of‑the‑possible (and sometimes being willing to put aside preconceptions on the impossible!).

On any given day, the role will provide both a challenging and rewarding opportunity to develop adjacent technology expertise as well as mastering key skills relating to technical and industry advocacy on behalf of our clients. A key aspect will be offering good practice guidance and adopting a deploy‑to‑production mindset, where it is as much about the operational process as it is about the product.

As part of our broader solutions engineering community, you will be working alongside peers with deep subject‑matter expertise and industry knowledge upon whose insights will support your own. Of course, as a senior member of the team, you will also be in a position to contribute to a body‑of‑knowledge across key domains of networking, cybersecurity and edge computing, as well as industry analyses and perspectives.

For this role, our Solutions Engineering team members focus on large clients for whom we are able to develop deep understanding and partnership to collaborate with. Building on a track‑record of success such as that demonstrated with recent projects with the NCSC, this role has an emphasis on supporting our clients in both local and central government, as well as select private sector clients where appropriate.

Previous experience in supporting the public sector is beneficial, however not mandatory.

As an SE, there will often be more than one way to solve a problem – hence what might be a best practice in a given context might not be true in another! This is where your experience will help.

The problems that our clients face are both diverse and unique – which is reflected in how we think about our Solution Engineering team. Building on the benefit of the hive‑mind, our SE team is made up of individuals from a wide range of backgrounds – from end‑customers to other vendors, Financial Consulting to Product Management, Customer Support to Software Engineering.

In short, if we are to solve complex problems we need a diverse, curious and collaborative team.

Cloudflare’s mission is one which is both simple and timeless, to help build a better Internet. This requires a broad set of services and associated knowledge of Internet performance and security technology. We recognise many of our team usually join us with one or two core domains of expertise, however key to success is the…