Remote Network Engineering Manager: Backbone & Cloud

CrowdStrike, Inc.; Sunnyvale (CA); Remote; USD 140,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market compensation and equity awards

Wellness programs

Vacation and holidays

Parental and adoption leave

Professional development

Employee networks and volunteering

Office culture and amenities

Great Place to Work certification

Job summary

CrowdStrike, Inc. in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking an engineering manager to lead the Network Engineering team responsible for scaling and operating CrowdStrike's backbone and cloud connectivity across hybrid infrastructure.

You will guide multi-vendor networks and work with internal partners. The role requires 7+ years in backbone networking, cloud networks, automation, and a track record of managing global teams.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in operating multi-vendor hyper-scale IP and Optical backbone, data center networks and public cloud networks (AWS, GCP, OCI, or equivalent).
• 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 operating in FedRAMP or other regulated environments.
• Must be eligible for CJIS clearance (requires U.S. citizenship or Green Card/permanent resident status).

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

Global engineering leadership

Multi-vendor backbone networks

Public cloud networking

DWDM/ROADM

MPLS/Segment Routing

Network automation

Automation tools

Regulatory environments

CJIS eligibility

AI in networking

Tools

Ansible

Chef

Terraform

Python

Bash

Network simulation tools

Job description

CrowdStrike, Inc. in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking an engineering manager to lead the Network Engineering team responsible for scaling and operating CrowdStrike's backbone and cloud connectivity across hybrid infrastructure.

You will guide multi-vendor networks and work with internal partners. The role requires 7+ years in backbone networking, cloud networks, automation, and a track record of managing global teams.