About the Role
Help build and expand CrowdStrike's global infrastructure footprint, establishing operational excellence across multiple cloud platforms. Enable the NGSIEM FrontTier Expansions team to deploy and manage LogScale fleets. This role involves hands-on technical work and strategic planning for consistent, reliable, and scalable LogScale operations in a multi-cloud environment, impacting global security posture.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement infrastructure across multiple cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, OCI) and CrowdStrike managed datacenters
- Develop cloud expertise across multiple platforms, becoming proficient in cloud-native services and best practices for each provider
- Create standardized patterns and frameworks for deploying services across different cloud providers
- Monitor and maintain the health, performance, and reliability of multi-cloud infrastructure processing trillions of events daily
- Implement comprehensive monitoring with Service Level Indicators across different cloud platforms to enable proactive alerting
- Conduct capacity planning and forecasting based on workload patterns across cloud environments
- Provision and scale infrastructure (vertical/horizontal) based on demand and cloud-specific capabilities
- Develop automation tools and microservices for platform components across multiple cloud platforms
- Orchestrate version upgrades, patch management, and configuration changes with minimal customer impact
- Establish security and compliance controls tailored to each cloud platform's requirements
- Collaborate with product management, engineering, and customer support teams to align infrastructure capabilities with product vision and customer needs
- Act as a technical liaison between FrontTier Expansions and internal business partners to ensure infrastructure supports business objectives
- Contribute to delivering world-class performance and reliability for customers
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for testing and releasing configuration and software across clouds
- Deploy, operate, and troubleshoot applications in Kubernetes clusters across managed and self-managed environments
- Participate in on-call rotation to support production infrastructure globally
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience with large-scale, business-critical Linux-based environments
- Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or OCI) with eagerness to learn others
- Experience with configuration management and Infrastructure as Code using Chef, Ansible, or similar tools
- Experience deploying, operating, and troubleshooting applications in Kubernetes clusters in production environments
- Proficiency in scripting and programming using Python, Bash, or Go
- Experience working with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Git, Artifactory, Bitbucket)
- Understanding of distributed systems and data processing at scale
- Knowledge of networking concepts including VPCs, load balancers, and DNS
- Proven ability to work effectively with remote teams across multiple time zones
- Strong analytical skills with ability to make data-driven infrastructure decisions
- Excellent communication skills for documenting solutions and collaborating with distributed teams
- Curiosity about and ability to investigate new cloud technologies, systems, and tools
- A can-do attitude; you thrive collaborating in a team and are not afraid of taking on responsibilities
- Availability for on-call on a rotational basis
Skills
- Linux
- AWS
- GCP
- OCI
- Chef
- Ansible
- Kubernetes
- Python
- Bash
- Go
- Jenkins
- Git
- Artifactory
- Bitbucket
- Distributed systems
- Data processing at scale
- Networking concepts (VPCs, load balancers, DNS)
- Cloud certifications (AWS Solutions Architect, Google Cloud Engineer, OCI Architect)
- Kubernetes certifications (CKA, CKAD, CKS)
- Kubernetes operators
- Helm development
- Kafka
- Distributed streaming platforms
- LogScale/Humio
- Log management systems
- Object storage systems (S3, GCS, OCI Object Storage)
- FinOps
- Cloud cost optimization
- SRE best practices (SLOs, error budgets, chaos engineering)
- Observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog)
- AI coding assistants (e.g., Anthropic Claude)
- Cybersecurity
- SIEM
- Security operations
Location
- Austin, TX
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5+ years of experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
Salary/Compensations
- $120,000 - $180,000 per year
Benefits
- 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 amenities
- Great Place to Work Certified™ across the globe
About the Company
- CrowdStrike is a global leader in cybersecurity, protecting the people, processes, and technologies that drive modern organizations.
- Since 2011, our mission is to stop breaches, redefining 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, with traffic growing daily.
- Our customers across all industries rely on CrowdStrike to keep their businesses running, communities safe, and lives moving forward.
- We are a mission-driven company, cultivating a culture that provides flexibility and autonomy for every CrowdStriker to own their careers.
- CrowdStrike was founded in 2011 to address the fundamental problem that existing malware-based defenses could not solve sophisticated attacks.
- Founder George Kurtz envisioned a new approach combining advanced endpoint protection with expert intelligence to pinpoint adversaries, not just malware.
- We stop breaches.
Equal Opportunity
- CrowdStrike is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
- We are committed to fostering a culture of belonging where everyone is valued for who they are and empowered to succeed.
- We support veterans and individuals with disabilities through our affirmative action program.
- CrowdStrike is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants for employment.
- The Company does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, creed, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy or pregnancy-related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical disability (including HIV and AIDS), mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, membership or activity in a local human rights commission, status with regard to public assistance, or any other characteristic protected by law.
- All employment decisions, including recruitment, selection, training, compensation, benefits, discipline, promotions, transfers, lay-offs, return from lay-off, terminations, and social/recreational programs, are based on valid job requirements.
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