Systems Engineer II (Remote
Northern, Floyd County, Kentucky, USA
Listed on 2026-08-23
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IT/Tech
Systems Engineer, Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations
Location: Northern
As a global leader in cybersecurity, Crowd Strike protects the people, processes and technologies that drive modern organizations. Since 2011, our mission hasn’t changed — we’re here to stop breaches, and we’ve redefined 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 and this traffic is growing daily.
Our customers span all industries, and they count on Crowd Strike to keep their businesses running, their communities safe and their lives moving forward. We're proud to work for a mission-driven company leveraging AI to transform the way we work. Crowd Strikers drive their careers through flexibility and autonomy while also being expected to contribute to a culture of responsible AI adoption, experimentation, and innovation.
We use an AI-first mindset as a force multiplier to proactively and continuously accelerate execution, build expertise, uncover insights, and solve complex problems. We’re always looking to add talented Crowd Strikers to the team who have limitless passion, a relentless focus on innovation and a fanatical commitment to our customers, our community and each other. Ready to join a mission that matters?
The future of cybersecurity starts with you.
Crowd Strike is in search of a Systems Engineer II to join our growing Production Services team. The candidate will play an important role in the engineering and maintaining solutions for our production systems environments.
What You’ll Do:- Ability to understand complex technical systems architecture and help make recommendations for improvement
- Have experience with Linux engineering and administration for thousands of bare metal servers and virtual machines
- Troubleshoot server hardware issues
- Familiarity with large-scale production deployments of servers and applications inside internal datacenter
- Ability to read and write moderate to complex scripts and programs for automation, tools, frameworks, dashboards, alarms. (common uses: Python, Perl, PHP, JavaScript, Go)
- On-call rotation with other team members
- US Citizen or Green Card holder
- Experience with Bare Metal Orchestration services (Open Stack, Canonical MaaS, etc)
- Experience with Linux engineering and administration for thousands of bare metal and virtual machines
- Experience with deployment and management of container orchestration services (Kubernetes)
- Experience with virtualization technologies (Open Stack Nova, VMWare ESXi)
- Experience with CI/CD systems such as Git Lab CI/CD, Jenkins
- Experience with configuration management like Chef, Ansible, Salt
- Experience with working on small to large scale projects
- Experience writing technical documentation
- 3+ years of engineering experience, preferably in a production role
- 2-3 business related trips per year for group meetings
- Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes.
Qualifications:
- Knowledge of protocols such as DNS, HTTP, SMTP, SNMP
- Knowledge of bare metal provisioning technologies, such as Canonical MaaS and Open Stack
- Knowledge of Linux Operating systems, such as Ubuntu and Red Hat
- Knowledge of OSI model
- Knowledge of block storage solutions, such as TrueNAS
- Knowledge of container systems such as Docker and Kubernetes
- Knowledge of monitoring solutions, such as Prometheus, Grafana and Zabbix
- Knowledge with CI/CD systems such as Git Lab CI/CD, Jenkins
- Knowledge with configuration management like Chef, Ansible, Salt
- Knowledge with threat intelligence and mobile technology a plus
- Self-learning capabilities, taking initiative in a fast pace/quickly changing environment
- Work effectively and professionally with cross-functional groups across divisions, worldwide, as part of a team
- Team-player, positive attitude and flexible with a distributed team in multiple time zone
- Must exhibit meticulous attention to detail, and have the ability to make good, timely decisions
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required #LI-LY1 #LI-Remote
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