Engineer III - TechOps CICD Platform

CrowdStrike; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 5,400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Compensation & equity

Wellness programs

Vacation & holidays

Parental leaves

Professional development

Employee networks

Office culture

Great Place to Work

Job summary

CrowdStrike in Bengaluru is seeking a senior engineer for our Technical Operations team to design and maintain on‑premise Kubernetes environments, IaC tooling, and virtualization automation at scale.

You’ll lead cross‑functional collaboration across time zones, drive infrastructure improvements, and ensure reliable monitoring and incident response using Jenkins, Terraform, VMware, and Git workflows.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience working in a large-scale production environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required.
• Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes.
• 2-3 business-related trips per year for group meetings.
• Must work effectively and professionally with cross-functional groups across divisions, worldwide, as part of a team.
• Must be able to effectively lead a distributed team across multiple time zones.
• Must exhibit meticulous attention to detail, and have the ability to make good, timely decisions.
• Demonstrate self-learning capabilities, taking initiative in a fast pace/quickly changing environment.
• Security mindset, general understanding of cybersecurity principles.
• Ability to participate in an on-call rotation
• Effectively use collaboration tools like Slack and Zoom to interact with team members

Responsibilities

• Design, Build and maintain on-premise Kubernetes environments
• Expertise utilizing, configuring, and maintaining Rancher
• Experience with IaC tools such as Packer and Terraform
• Expertise with various consumer and enterprise operating systems (Windows, Linux, MacOS, iOS, Android) operating at scale.
• Experience designing cloud instance provisioning patterns in Azure, AWS, and GCP.
• Expertise with virtualization administration, preferably VMWare 3+ in a clustered environment.
• Lead the implementation and design and/or continuous improvement of virtualization automation and IaaS capabilities utilizing VMWare vCenter and associated APIs/tooling.
• Ensuring the proper monitoring, maintenance, and resilience of critical R&D environments.
• Ability to determine root-cause for incidents, correlate recurring incidents to systemic problems, and drive towards resolution.
• Provide guidance on automating common tasks, deploy with an IaaS model, extensive experience with enterprise-grade configuration management tools (Chef, Puppet, Salt, Ansible).
• Experience utilizing CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Bamboo, Azure DevOps, Gitlab, for large-scale operations.
• Experience utilizing source-code repositories utilizing git (Bitbucket, Gitlab, etc.)
• Ability to understand scripts and programs for automation, tools, frameworks, dashboards, alarms. (common uses: Python, Go)
• Experience with common scripting languages such as Python, Groovy, PowerShell.
• Ability to document processes/procedures.
• Ability to perform code-review for quality and adherence to company style guides.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Distributed teams

Tools

Kubernetes

Rancher

Packer

Terraform

Windows

Linux

MacOS

iOS

Android

Azure

AWS

GCP

VMware

vCenter

Chef

Puppet

Salt

Ansible

Jenkins

Bamboo

Azure DevOps

GitLab

Git

Bitbucket

Python

Go

Groovy

PowerShell

Job description

As a global leader in cybersecurity, CrowdStrike protects the people, processes and technologies that drive modern organizations. Since 2011, our mission hasn’t changed — we’re here to stop breaches, and we’ve redefined modern security with the world’s most advanced AI-native platform. We work on large scale distributed systems, processing almost 3 trillion events per day and this traffic is growing daily. Our customers span all industries, and they count on CrowdStrike to keep their businesses running, their communities safe and their lives moving forward. We're proud to work for a mission-driven company leveraging AI to transform the way we work. CrowdStrikers drive their careers through flexibility and autonomy while also being expected to contribute to a culture of responsible AI adoption, experimentation, and innovation. We use an AI-first mindset as a force multiplier to proactively and continuously accelerate execution, build expertise, uncover insights, and solve complex problems. We’re always looking to add talented CrowdStrikers to the team who have limitless passion, a relentless focus on innovation and a fanatical commitment to our customers, our community and each other. Ready to join a mission that matters? The future of cybersecurity starts with you.

About The Role:

Like to ship meaningful products and generally get... stuff.. done? As a senior engineer on CrowdStrike’s Technical Operations team, you will be a key contributor to a team of engineers that help to keep our software factory humming. Want to provide leadership for the vision around our Infrastructure as a Service platform? Influence policy changes and establishes key relationships with senior technical leaders and management? Plan and lead architectural initiatives for frameworks that take us through the next 10x of growth? Investigate and evaluate next-generation technologies? Make developers smile through inner loop efficiency? If so, this job is for you!

What You’ll Do:

• Design, Build and maintain on-premise Kubernetes environments
• Expertise utilizing, configuring, and maintaining Rancher
• Experience with IaC tools such as Packer and Terraform
• Expertise with various consumer and enterprise operating systems (Windows, Linux, MacOS, iOS, Android) operating at scale.
• Experience designing cloud instance provisioning patterns in Azure, AWS, and GCP.
• Expertise with virtualization administration, preferably VMWare 3+ in a clustered environment.
• Lead the implementation and design and/or continuous improvement of virtualization automation and IaaS capabilities utilizing VMWare vCenter and associated APIs/tooling.
• Ensuring the proper monitoring, maintenance, and resilience of critical R&D environments.
• Ability to determine root-cause for incidents, correlate recurring incidents to systemic problems, and drive towards resolution.
• Provide guidance on automating common tasks, deploy with an IaaS model, extensive experience with enterprise-grade configuration management tools (Chef, Puppet, Salt, Ansible).
• Experience utilizing CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Bamboo, Azure DevOps, Gitlab, for large-scale operations.
• Experience utilizing source-code repositories utilizing git (Bitbucket, Gitlab, etc.)
• Ability to understand scripts and programs for automation, tools, frameworks, dashboards, alarms. (common uses: Python, Go)
• Experience with common scripting languages such as Python, Groovy, PowerShell.
• Ability to document processes/procedures.
• Ability to perform code-review for quality and adherence to company style guides.

What You’ll Need:

• 5+ years of experience working in a large-scale production environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required.
• Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes.
• 2-3 business-related trips per year for group meetings.
• Must work effectively and professionally with cross-functional groups across divisions, worldwide, as part of a team.
• Must be able to effectively lead a distributed team across multiple time zones.
• Must exhibit meticulous attention to detail, and have the ability to make good, timely decisions.
• Demonstrate self-learning capabilities, taking initiative in a fast pace/quickly changing environment.
• Security mindset, general understanding of cybersecurity principles.
• Ability to participate in an on-call rotation
• Effectively use collaboration tools like Slack and Zoom to interact with team members

Benefits Of Working At CrowdStrike:

• Market leader in compensation and equity awards
• Comprehensive physical and mental wellness programs
• Competitive vacation and holidays for recharge
• Paid parental and adoption leaves
• Professional development opportunities for all employees regardless of level or role
• Employee Networks, geographic neighborhood groups, and volunteer opportunities to build connections
• Vibrant office culture with world class amenities
• Great Place to Work Certified™ across the globe

CrowdStrike is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering a culture of belonging where everyone is valued for who they are and empowered to succeed. We support veterans and individuals with disabilities through our affirmative action program.

CrowdStrike is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants for employment. The Company does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, creed, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy or pregnancy-related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical disability (including HIV and AIDS), mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, membership or activity in a local human rights commission, status with regard to public assistance, or any other characteristic protected by law. We base all employment decisions--including recruitment, selection, training, compensation, benefits, discipline, promotions, transfers, lay-offs, return from lay-off, terminations and social/recreational programs--on valid job requirements.

What You’ll Need:

• 5+ years of experience working in a large-scale production environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required.
• Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes.
• 2-3 business-related trips per year for group meetings.
• Must work effectively and professionally with cross-functional groups across divisions, worldwide, as part of a team.
• Must be able to effectively lead a distributed team across multiple time zones.
• Must exhibit meticulous attention to detail, and have the ability to make good, timely decisions.
• Demonstrate self-learning capabilities, taking initiative in a fast pace/quickly changing environment.
• Security mindset, general understanding of cybersecurity principles.
• Ability to participate in an on-call rotation
• Effectively use collaboration tools like Slack and Zoom to interact with team members