Engineer III - TechOps CICD Platform

CrowdStrike; India; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market-leading compensation

Equity awards

Wellness programs

Parental leaves

Job summary

CrowdStrike is seeking a senior engineer for the Technical Operations team to help keep our software factory humming and to lead architectural initiatives for the next growth phase. You will work on on-premise Kubernetes, Rancher, and virtualization automation while collaborating with senior leaders across time zones.

The role requires 5+ years in large-scale production, strong communication, and a proven track record in using AI to improve workflows.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience 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.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain on-premise Kubernetes environments.
• Experience with IaC tools such as Packer and Terraform.
• Lead virtualization automation and IaaS capabilities using VMware and related APIs.
• Ensure monitoring, maintenance and resilience of critical R&D environments.
• Document processes and perform code-review for quality and adherence to style guides.

Skills

Kubernetes

Rancher

Terraform

Packer

VMware

CI/CD

Python

Go

PowerShell

Git

Tools

Jenkins

Bamboo

Azure DevOps

GitLab

Terraform

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

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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 amenitie