Sr. DevOps Engineer

About the Role:

CrowdStrikes engineering organization depends on shared infrastructure platforms that power critical product capabilities. These platforms need dedicated engineering ownership to operate reliably scale safely harden for security and mature into self-service capabilities that teams can depend on.

Youll own production infrastructure that spans multiple cloud providers and regions serving engineering teams across the organization. The work is equal parts platform engineering and operational excellence building automation hardening security establishing governance and enabling consuming teams to adopt these platforms effectively. Youll also help shape what comes next as the teams scope grows.

Were hiring at all seniority levels scope and compensation adjust accordingly.

What Youll Do:

• Operate and manage production infrastructure deploy upgrade scale and maintain stateful platform services across a multi-cloud multi-region Kubernetes fleet; own the health of what you run

• Build control planes develop the automation APIs and tooling that make provisioning configuration upgrades and scaling safe repeatable and eventually self-service

• Own capacity planning and cost optimization right-size clusters track resource utilization forecast growth and drive infrastructure cost efficiency; make sure were not over-provisioned or under-prepared

• Build and maintain observability for your infrastructure instrument the platforms you manage with metrics dashboards and alerts that surface real problems; build runbooks that make on-call actionable

• Run on-call and incident response be on the rotation respond to pages drive incidents to resolution write postmortems and turn recurring issues into automation or architecture changes

• Automate everything you touch deployments upgrades schema migrations certificate rotations scaling decisions failover procedures; if youre doing it by hand more than once automate it

• Harden security implement authentication authorization encryption secret rotation and network policies; keep dependencies patched and CVEs remediated

• Plan and execute disaster recovery backup strategies failover testing cross-region resilience; make sure critical platforms can survive infrastructure failures

• Enable consuming teams golden path patterns configuration templates and hands-on support that help engineering teams adopt platform capabilities reliably

• Partner across Infrastructure SRE and Data Services the platforms you own sit on top of compute databases and networking managed by other teams; work closely with them on shared operational concerns

What Youll Need:

• Strong expertise operating stateful distributed systems on Kubernetes not just deploying stateless apps; youve managed multi-component stateful services in production and understand the operational complexity that comes with it

• Infrastructure-as-code fluency you manage infrastructure through version-controlled reproducible automation not manual configuration

• GitOps and CI/CD experience youve used declarative git-driven deployment workflows to manage infrastructure at scale

• Database operations experience schema management backup/restore connection management and performance tuning for relational databases

• Security as a first-class concern encryption authentication authorization secret management network policies; you implement security not just audit it

• Multi-cloud or multi-region operational experience youve managed infrastructure that spans providers or regions and understand the complexity that introduces

• 8 years in DevOps SRE or platform engineering with meaningful experience operating distributed systems at scale

Bonus Qualifications:

• Experience operating workflow orchestration platforms in production

• Experience operating distributed tracing or telemetry collection infrastructure

• Go proficiency the platforms and consuming services are primarily written in Go

• Experience building internal developer platforms self-service tooling golden path patterns onboarding automation

• Background in disaster recovery and failover automation for stateful systems

• Previous work at a cybersecurity or high-availability SaaS company

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Benefits of Working at CrowdStrike:

• 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

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