#WeAreCrowdStrike and our mission is to stop breaches. As a global leader in cybersecurity, our team changed the game. Since our inception, our market leading cloud-native platform has offered unparalleled protection against the most sophisticated cyberattacks. We work on large scale distributed systems, processing over 1 trillion events a day with a petabyte of RAM deployed in our Cassandra clusters - and this traffic is growing daily. We're looking for people with limitless passion, a relentless focus on innovation and a fanatical commitment to developing and shaping our cybersecurity platform. Consistently recognized as a top workplace, CrowdStrike is committed to cultivating an inclusive, remote-first culture that offers people the autonomy and flexibility to balance the needs of work and life while taking their career to the next level. Interested in working for a company that sets the standard and leads with integrity? Join us on a mission that matters - one team, one fight.
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About The Role:
CrowdStrike is in search of a Senior Systems Engineer to join our growing Production Infrastructure Engineering team. The candidate will play an important role in the architecture and management of our production systems environments.
What You'll Do:
- Oversee and coordinate technical resources for the purpose of driving both internal and external team projects to completion
- Analyze requirements and develop solutions of technical problems based on complex business needs
- Hold regular, frequent project meetings to address challenges and drive milestones
- Report regularly to leadership on the status of critical projects
- Understand complex technical systems architecture and make recommendations for improvement
- Represent the systems team as a technical leader and provide direction and insight for projects, discovery, and problem management
- Familiarity with large-scale production deployments of servers and applications inside internal datacenter
- Ability to write moderate to complex scripts and programs for developing automation, tools, frameworks, dashboards, alarms. (common uses: Python, Perl, PHP, JavaScript, Go)
- Experience leading projects and delivering solutions through completion
- Expertise with Bare Metal Orchestration services (Canonical MaaS, OpenStack Ironic, etc)
- Expertise with Linux engineering and administration for thousands of bare metal and virtual machines
- Experience with deployment and management of container orchestration services (Kubernetes)
- Experience with virtualization technologies (VMWare ESXi, OpenStack Nova)
- Experience with CI/CD systems such as GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins
- Experience with configuration management like Chef, Ansible, Salt
- 7+ years of engineering experience, preferably in a production role
- 2-3 business related trips per year for group meetings
- Knowledge of protocols such as DNS, HTTP, SMTP, SNMP
- Knowledge of OSI model
- Knowledge of block storage solutions, such as TrueNAS, Ceph
- Knowledge of monitoring solutions, such as Prometheus, Grafana and Zabbix
- Knowledge with threat intelligence and mobile technology a plus
- Self-learning capabilities, taking initiative in a fast pace/quickly changing environment
- Work effectively and professionally with cross-functional groups across divisions, worldwide, as part of a team
- Team-player, positive attitude and flexible with a distributed team in multiple time zone
- Must exhibit meticulous attention to detail, and have the ability to make good, timely decisions
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required
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This role will require the candidate to periodically undergo and pass additional background and fingerprint check(s) consistent with government customer requirements.
Benefits of Working at CrowdStrike:
- Remote-first culture
- Market leader in compensation and equity awards
- Competitive vacation and flexible working arrangements
- Comprehensive and inclusive health benefits
- Physical and mental wellness programs
- Paid parental leave, including adoption
- A variety of professional development and mentorship opportunities
- Offices with stocked kitchens when you need to fuel innovation and collaboration
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. If you need assistance accessing or reviewing the information on this website or need help submitting an application for employment or requesting an accommodation, please contact us at recruiting@crowdstrike.com for further assistance.
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