Engineer II - Virtualization

Job Summary

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

What You'll Need

• Bachelors 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.

Bonus Points

• 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)
• Self-learning capabilities, taking initiative in a fast-paced, constantly 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 zones
• Must exhibit meticulous attention to detail, and have the ability to make good, timely decisions
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required

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