Global Backbone & Cloud Network Engineering Manager

CrowdStrike; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market-leading compensation

Comprehensive wellness programs

Generous vacation and holidays

Parental and adoption leave

Professional development

Employee networks and community groups

Vibrant office culture

Great Place to Work Certification

Job summary

CrowdStrike, a global leader in cybersecurity, seeks an engineering manager to build and operate large-scale backbone and cloud connectivity for hybrid infrastructure. You will optimize backbone/network infrastructure at scale, lead a multi-vendor IP/optical network, and guide automation across multiple clouds.

You will manage global teams, drive a technical roadmap, and ensure resilience in a 24x7 on-call environment while aligning with security and FedRAMP/CJIS requirements.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in operating multi-vendor hyper-scale IP and Optical backbone, data center networks and public cloud networks.
• Proven track record in managing global engineering teams and leading initiatives independently with minimal supervision.
• Expert in large scale backbone networking technologies and protocols such as DWDM, ROADM, MP-BGP, MPLS, RSVP, Segment Routing, IS-IS, QoS, MACsec
• Experience with optical networks, core backbone routing, DDoS mitigation and other edge network services
• Experience in managing network configs using scripts (bash, python) or automation frameworks (Ansible, Chef, Terraform)
• Experience operating in FedRAMP or other regulated environments
• Must be eligible for CJIS clearance (requires U.S. citizenship or Green Card/permanent resident status)
• A strong track record of developing and improving tools, platforms, and infrastructure.
• Experience with network simulation and testing tools
• Experience in the automation of systems to reduce operational toil
• Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead network engineering team and drive initiatives to scale our IP and Optical backbone while maintaining consistency and stability
• Drive technical roadmap, cloud connectivity strategy and budget
• Collaborate with internal service partners and advance the IP and Optical network architecture to meet our evolving service requirements
• Actively engage with external vendors to discuss roadmap alignment, validate new designs or platforms, and lead post-mortem discussions on recent issues
• Drive operational excellence and best practices in operating and scaling infrastructure
• Drive backbone network automation strategy and development
• Develop tools to enhance consistency across multiple hybrid clouds
• Drive the development, testing and integration of new hardware and software platforms.
• Participate in 24x7 on-call rotations

Skills

Multi-vendor backbone networks

Global engineering teams leadership

Backbone networking protocols

DWDM/ROADM/MPLS/IS-IS/QoS/MACsec

DDoS mitigation and edge services

Automation scripting (bash/python)

Automation frameworks (Ansible, Chef, 

FedRAMP or regulated environments

CJIS clearance eligibility

Tooling development for platforms/infr

Network simulation/testing tools

AI-assisted decision making

Tools

Python

Bash

Ansible

Chef

Terraform

Job description

CrowdStrike, a global leader in cybersecurity, seeks an engineering manager to build and operate large-scale backbone and cloud connectivity for hybrid infrastructure. You will optimize backbone/network infrastructure at scale, lead a multi-vendor IP/optical network, and guide automation across multiple clouds.

You will manage global teams, drive a technical roadmap, and ensure resilience in a 24x7 on-call environment while aligning with security and FedRAMP/CJIS requirements.