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Senior DataCenter Provisioning Engineer

Join Fastly as a Senior Data Center Provisioning Engineer to enhance global network capacity and improve provisioning solutions.

Location
Denver, CO; New York City, NY; Raleigh, NC; Washington, D.C.
Compensation
$122.3k–$172.6k/yr
Level
senior
Type
full time · Hybrid

Posted by employer 2 months ago

First seen on Joblaze 1 month ago

Last verified on the company career page 14 hours ago

Skills & Technologies

Requirements

Experience
5+ years

Not disclosed in this posting: visa sponsorship.

Benefits

401k Match Flexible Vacation Paid Sick Leave Paid Wellness Days Equity/Stock Options Paid Holidays Health Insurance

Joblaze summary

The Senior Data Center Provisioning Engineer at Fastly plays a crucial role in configuring and deploying servers and network devices to enhance the company's global infrastructure. This position requires expertise in network provisioning, system administration, and a strong grasp of TCP/IP and BGP, along with proficiency in automation tools like Ansible and Git. Ideal candidates will have at least five years of relevant experience, particularly in environments like CDNs or cloud providers. Fastly's collaborative culture emphasizes teamwork across various technical teams to support rapid network expansion.

Joblaze insights

  • Listed about a month ago — first seen on Joblaze September 3, 2026. Last confirmed on Fastly's careers page October 27, 2026.
  • Salary band is below the typical range for DevOps/SRE roles (median ~$165,000).
  • Starts above 4% of 82 comparable senior devops/sre roles in United States that list Python we track (median $165,000 across 37 companies). See Python salary trends
  • Python appears in 63.7% of 182 comparable senior devops/sre roles in United States; Git appears in 1.6% of 182 comparable senior devops/sre roles in United States.

Quick facts

Is the Senior DataCenter Provisioning Engineer role remote?
It's hybrid — Fastly expects some on-site time in Denver, CO; New York City, NY; Raleigh, NC; Washington, D.C..
What's the salary range?
Fastly lists $122,280–$172,632 for this role.
How much experience is required?
At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Senior DataCenter Provisioning Engineer role.
Where is the role based?
Fastly is hiring for this position in Denver, CO; New York City, NY; Raleigh, NC; Washington, D.C..
What's the tech stack?
Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Ansible, Chef, Git, Python, bash.
What seniority level is this role?
Fastly targets senior candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?
Full-time for this Senior DataCenter Provisioning Engineer role at Fastly.

From the original posting

Fastly helps people stay better connected with the things they love. Fastly’s edge cloud platform enables customers to create great digital experiences quickly, securely, and reliably by processing, serving, and securing our customers’ applications as close to their end-users as possible — at the edge of the Internet. The platform is designed to take advantage of the modern internet, to be programmable, and to support agile software development. Fastly’s customers include many of the world’s most prominent companies, including GitHub, Yelp, Paramount, and JetBlue.

Posting Open Date: 8/13/2026

Anticipated Posting Close Date*: 10/12/2026

Senior Data Center Provisioning Engineer (Remote, US)

The Data Center Provisioning team is responsible for configuring and deploying the servers, network devices and supporting infrastructure that provides over 462Tbps of connected global capacity spanning across more than 100 points of presence (POPs) worldwide.


We are looking for a highly collaborative, detail-oriented data center provisioning engineer to join us as we build out new sites and provision additional capacity for existing sites, supporting the growth of a platform that serves a significant proportion of the content delivered to internet consumers across the planet.

You will work cross-functionally with our hardware, tooling, and operations teams, making our network bigger and better, and contributing to more scalable provisioning solutions.

What You'll Do:

  • Provision POPs (network devices, servers and equipment), following documented standards and processes, using a variety of tools including Github, Ansible, Chef, and Fastly’s internal tool sets
  • Troubleshoot and resolve problems that occur during provisioning and service turnup
  • Work collaboratively with internal operations and infrastructure teams, as well as external partners, in support of error-free rapid expansion
  • Contribute to the development and improvement of standards and processes for the provisioning of new infrastructure
  • Partner with other Fastly teams in the development and iteration of tools and automation systems that improve how we provision the network
  • Support post-deployment validation, monitoring integration, and handoff to Network Operations for steady-state management.

What We're Looking For:

  • At least 5 years experience in network devices and server provisioning, system administration, and/or site reliability engineering
  • Strong understanding of how the internet and TCP/IP work, focused on client/server dataflow
  • Strong IP routing knowledge, with a focus BGP with a deep understanding of TCP/IP
  • Understanding of how CDNs work and their position in the global internet
  • Comfort in a Linux environment, and prior experience with software/automation workflow tools such as Git, Travis, Chef, Ansible, or comparable
  • Ability to troubleshoot server, scripting, and network issues
  • Scripting ability in a common language such as Bash, Python, etc.

  • Prior experience working at a Content Delivery Network (CDN), hyperscale cloud provider, or telecom infrastructure provider.
  • Hands-on coding experience (e.g., Python, Rust) for building or improving internal tooling.
  • Experience provisioning and maintaining infrastructure for a large-scale, high-availability global network.

Work Hours: This position will require you to be available during core business hours.

Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements:

This position is open to Hybrid And Remote Work Locations.

The preferred locations for this position are:

  • Denver, CO
  • San Francisco, CA
  • New York, NY

There is a strong preference for Hybrid near a local office. However, we may be willing to consider remote candidates within the US.

Salary:

The estimated salary range for this position is $122,280 to $172,632.

We offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance. Family planning, mental health support along with Employee Assistance Program, Insurance (Life, Disability, and Accident), a Flexible Vacation policy and up to 18 days of accrued paid sick leave are there to help support our employees. We also offer 401(k) (including company match) and an Employee Stock Purchase Program. For 2026, we offer 12 paid local holidays, 12 paid company wellness days.

Why Fastly?

  • We have a huge impact. Fastly is a small company with a big reach. Not only do our customers have a tremendous user base, but we also support a growing number of open source projects and initiatives. Outside of code, employees are encouraged to share causes close to their heart with others so we can help lend a supportive hand.

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