Infrastructure Engineer III, TechOps CICD Image Management; Remote

Crowd Strike, Inc.

Full time

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.

Like to ship meaningful products and generally get things done? As an Infrastructure Engineer on Crowd Strike's Tech Ops CICD Image Management team, you will be a key contributor to a team of engineers responsible for building, maintaining, and delivering the golden images that power Crowd Strike's software factory ux is at the core of our image fleet, with macOS and Windows rounding out a multi-platform pipeline that thousands of daily builds and tests depend on.

A core part of this role is contributing to Ceramic, our internal golden-image build platform that automates the full image lifecycle: from upstream OS through hardening, compliance testing, SBOM tracking, and approval workflows before images reach production consumers. You will own both the images themselves and the platform that produces them, with a heavy emphasis on Python-driven automation and Infrastructure as Code practices.

• Maintain and extend Ceramic, our internal image build platform, including new feature development, bug fixes, and integrations with upstream tooling
• Design, build, and maintain automated golden image pipelines with a primary focus on Linux, extending to macOS (Intel and Apple Silicon) and Windows
• Compile and package software from source to satisfy internal framework and compatibility requirements
• Write Python tooling and automation to manage image builds, validation, drift detection, and regression testing
• Author and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Ansible, Packer, and Terraform for image configuration, provisioning, and compliance hardening
• Integrate image build pipelines with Jenkins and Git Lab CI, and publish artifacts via Artifactory
• Manage image lifecycle across the CI/CD fleet including provisioning, deployment, and decommission
• Collaborate with security and compliance teams to ensure images meet Crowd Strike's security standards and pass automated scanning
• Respond to and resolve image-related production issues across the CI/CD fleet
• Partner with product engineering teams to evaluate and onboard new toolchain requirements
• Contribute to documentation, runbooks, and knowledge transfer within the team

• US Citizen or Green Card holder
• Strong Linux systems engineering experience at scale, including low-level knowledge of the build toolchain, package management, shared libraries, and compiling software from source
• Python proficiency, you write automation, tooling, and scripts in Python as a first choice
• Software development experience, you are comfortable owning and extending an internal platform or service
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools including Ansible (playbooks, roles, AWX/Tower), Packer, and Terraform
• Experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and/or Git Lab CI
• Experience with artifact management tools, Artifactory preferred
• Understanding of virtualization concepts, experience with VMware, KVM, or similar hypervisors
• Familiarity with macOS and Windows system administration in a CI/CD or build environment
• Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills across OS, network, and application layers
• Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making,…