Sr. Infrastructure Engineer

#WeAreCrowdStrike and our mission is to stop breaches. As a global leader in cybersecurity, our team changed the game. Since our inception, our market leading cloud-native platform has offered unparalleled protection against the most sophisticated cyberattacks. We’re looking for people with limitless passion, a relentless focus on innovation and a fanatical commitment to the customer to join us in shaping the future of cybersecurity. Consistently recognized as a top workplace, CrowdStrike is committed to cultivating an inclusive, remote-first culture that offers people the autonomy and flexibility to balance the needs of work and life while taking their career to the next level. Interested in working for a company that sets the standard and leads with integrity? Join us on a mission that matters – one team, one fight.

About The Role

CrowdStrike is hiring an Infrastructure Engineer to help take our internal automation to the next level. We are looking for a highly-technical, hands-on Engineer with experience using several open source projects commonly found in large-scale deployments. You will be managing our Infrastructure Lifecycle: deployments, upgrades, monitoring, and uptime of all core infrastructure stacks. You will develop and maintain Chef infrastructure, cookbooks, and will maintain our Lifecycle Management. Our team works to develop infrastructure services to support the CrowdStrike engineering team’s pursuit of a full DevOps model.

What You’ll Do

• Submit and review PRs for your team mates’ Infrastructure as Code
• Responsible for testing and building terraform modules, chef cookbooks & other core infrastructure engineering tasks
• Rewriting vital services using Golang
• Responsible for reviewing new design proposals from your peers
• Participate in regular retros, capacity and planning meetings with your team, allowing team collaboration and discussions in a high fidelity manner.
• Be part of “lunch and learn” demos: for new POCs or design sessions to work out new architectures.
• Flexible working – with transparent communication, we encourage flexible working and a healthy work life balance.
• Participate in 24×7 on-call rotations (every 4 weeks).

What You’ll Need

• Config Management (Chef, Puppet, Salt or similar solutions)
• Provisioning & Orchestration (Terraform, Ansible or similar solutions)
• Experience developing in: Python, Ruby or GO
• Experience with large-scale, business-critical Linux environments.
• Experience operating within the cloud, AWS & GCP preferred.
• Experience with TDD, CI/CD, Chaos Engineering or similar resilience and reliability practices for infrastructure development.
• 8+ years industry experience

Bonus Points

• Proven ability to work effectively with both local and remote teams.
• Rock solid communication skills, verbal and written.
• A combination of confidence and independence, with the prudence to know when to ask for help from the rest of the team.
• Experience with technologies such as: Vault, Consul, PowerDNS, Squid, Graphite, Grafana
• Experience with being on-call
• Knowledge of SRE, Devops and Gitops practices

Benefits Of Working At CrowdStrike

• Remote-first culture
• Market leader in compensation and equity awards with option to participate in ESPP in eligible countries
• Competitive vacation and flexible working arrangements
• Physical and mental wellness programs
• Paid parental leave, including adoption
• A variety of professional development and mentorship opportunities
• Access to CrowdStrike University, LinkedIn Learning and Jhanna
• Offices with stocked kitchens when you need to fuel innovation and collaboration
• Birthday time-off in your local country
• Work with people who are passionate in our mission and Great Place to Work certified across the globe