[Hiring] Engineer II - Virtualization @CrowdStrike

Role Description

CrowdStrike 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.

What You’ll Do:

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

Qualifications

• 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 OpenStack 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.

Requirements

• Knowledge of vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM)
• Knowledge of bare metal provisioning using OpenStack Ironic or Bifrost
• Knowledge of block storage solutions, such as TrueNAS, Ceph/Rook-Ceph, or Dell PowerFlex
• 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 (GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Chef, Ansible, Salt)

Benefits

• 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