Virtualization Engineer II — Remote & OpenStack Expert

CrowdStrike Inc.; Boston (MA); Remote; USD 100,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market-leading compensation and equity

Wellness programs

Generous vacation and holidays

Parental & adoption leaves

Professional development

Employee networks and volunteering

Vibrant office culture

Great Place to Work Certified

Job summary

CrowdStrike is seeking an Engineer II - Virtualization to join our Production Services team. You will design and maintain complex systems, manage large-scale deployments, and administer Linux across thousands of servers and VMs.

You’ll leverage AI tools to accelerate development and improve operational workflows while troubleshooting infrastructure issues and supporting on-call incidents. The role requires hands-on OpenStack experience, VMware vCenter/ESXi management at scale, and strong

Qualifications

• US Citizenship or Green Card holder status.
• Bachelor’s degree and/or equivalent experience in Computer Science.
• Experience with infrastructure technologies at scale including Linux, Windows, VMware, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Hands-on experience administering large-scale OpenStack environments in production.
• Experience managing VMware vCenter/ESXi at scale including HA, DRS, and vMotion.
• Working knowledge of L2/L3 networking, VLANs, bonding/LACP, BGP and DHCP.
• Configuration management experience with one or more tools such as Puppet, Chef, or Ansible.
• Experience writing technical documentation.
• Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain complex technical systems architecture, providing recommendations for improvement.
• Manage and support large-scale production deployments of servers and applications inside internal datacenters.
• Administer Linux systems across thousands of bare metal servers and virtual machines.
• Develop and improve scripts, automation tools, and operational workflows — leveraging AI tools where applicable to accelerate development and enhance solutions (Python, Go, PowerShell).
• Troubleshoot server hardware, hypervisor, and infrastructure issues.
• Participate in on-call rotation with incident management responsibilities including response via PagerDuty, troubleshooting with or without runbooks, and contribution to post-mortems.

Skills

Linux

Windows

VMware

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenStack

vCenter/ESXi

Networking

Puppet

Chef

Ansible

AI

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Zabbix

GitLab CI/CD

Jenkins

Job description

CrowdStrike is seeking an Engineer II - Virtualization to join our Production Services team. You will design and maintain complex systems, manage large-scale deployments, and administer Linux across thousands of servers and VMs.

You’ll leverage AI tools to accelerate development and improve operational workflows while troubleshooting infrastructure issues and supporting on-call incidents. The role requires hands-on OpenStack experience, VMware vCenter/ESXi management at scale, and strong