Engineer II - Virtualization; Remote

USA
- Remote

Full time

R30160

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 an Engineer II
- Virtualization to join our growing Production Services team. The candidate will play an important role in engineering and maintaining solutions for our production systems environments.

• 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, Power Shell)
• Troubleshoot server hardware, hypervisor, and infrastructure issues
• Participate in on-call rotation with incident management responsibilities including response via Pager Duty, troubleshooting with or without runbooks, and contribution to post-mortems

• 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 Open Stack 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, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes.

• Knowledge of vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM)
• Knowledge of bare metal provisioning using Open Stack Ironic or Bifrost
• Knowledge of block storage solutions, such as TrueNAS, Ceph/Rook-Ceph, or Dell Power Flex
• Knowledge of networking protocols (DNS, HTTP, SMTP, SNMP) and the OSI model
• Knowledge of monitoring solutions, such as Prometheus, Grafana and Zabbix
• Knowledge of CI/CD and configuration management tools (Git Lab CI/CD, Jenkins, Chef, Ansible, Salt)

• Self-learning capabilities, taking initiative in a fast-paced, constantly changing environment
• Work effectively and professionally with cross‑functional groups across divisions, worldwide, as…