Engineer II - CICD Infrastructure

About the Role:

Are you an infrastructure engineer who enjoys building and optimizing automated image creation pipelines? Do you have experience working with multiple operating systems and a passion for streamlining development environments?
 

As an Engineer II on the TechOps CICD Infrastructure team, you’ll help architect and maintain the image generation systems that power CrowdStrike’s software factory. You’ll work hands-on with Windows, Linux, and macOS environments to create consistent, secure, and optimized build images through automated pipelines. Your contributions will directly impact developer productivity by ensuring reliable environments across our infrastructure. Join us to tackle interesting technical challenges while supporting the development of industry-leading cybersecurity products.

What You'll Do:

• Strong experience with IaC tools like HashiCorp Packer and Ansible

• Expertise in operating system lifecycle management 

• Experience with various consumer and enterprise operating systems (Windows, Linux, MacOS) operating at scale

• Familiarity with Infrastructure as a Service platforms including VMware, AWS, Azure, GCP and OpenStack

• Ability to lead the implementation and design of virtualization automation and IaaS capabilities, with a focus on image generation

• Experience designing, building, and maintaining CICD pipelines, particularly using Jenkins and GitLab

• Ensure proper monitoring, maintenance, and resilience of critical environments

• Ability to determine root-cause for incidents, correlate recurring incidents to systemic problems, and drive towards resolution

• Provide guidance on automating common tasks and deploying with an IaaS model

• Experience utilizing source-code repositories using git (Bitbucket, Gitlab, etc.)

• Strong command line skills and ability to understand scripts and programs for automation, tools, frameworks, dashboards, alarms (common uses: Python, Go)

• Experience with common scripting languages such as Python, Groovy, PowerShell

• Ability to document processes/procedures

• Ability to perform code-review for quality and adherence to company style guides

What You'll Need:

• 3+ years of experience working in a large-scale production environment

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required

• 2-3 business-related trips per year for group meetings

• Must work effectively and professionally with cross-functional groups across divisions, worldwide, as part of a team

• Must be able to effectively work with a distributed team across multiple time zones

• Must exhibit meticulous attention to detail, and have the ability to make good, timely decisions

• Demonstrate self-learning capabilities, taking initiative in a fast pace/quickly changing environment

• Security-mindset, general understanding of cybersecurity principles

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