Remote Network Engineering Manager: Cloud & Backbone Scale

CrowdStrike; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market-leading compensation

equity awards

professional development

wellness programs

Job summary

CrowdStrike is seeking an engineering manager to build and operate large-scale backbone and cloud connectivity for hybrid infrastructure. You will lead a multi-vendor IP and Optical backbone, drive the technical roadmap, and align with external vendors on new designs while ensuring operations scale globally.

The role requires 7+ years in backbone networking, leadership of global teams, and experience with AI-enabled decision processes to improve efficiency and outcomes.

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.

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 evolving service requirements
• Actively engage with external vendors to discuss roadmap alignment and lead post-mortem discussions on 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

People leadership

Global cross-functional teams

Backbone networking

Tools

Bash

Python

Ansible

Chef

Terraform

Job description

CrowdStrike is seeking an engineering manager to build and operate large-scale backbone and cloud connectivity for hybrid infrastructure. You will lead a multi-vendor IP and Optical backbone, drive the technical roadmap, and align with external vendors on new designs while ensuring operations scale globally.

The role requires 7+ years in backbone networking, leadership of global teams, and experience with AI-enabled decision processes to improve efficiency and outcomes.