Site Reliability Engineer (Tech Ops) (Remote) – CrowdStrike

44% 1-Year Employee Growth Rate | 107% 2-Year Employee Growth Rate | LinkedIn | $481M Venture Funding

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​​#WeAreCrowdStrike and our mission is to stop breaches. As a global leader in cybersecurity, our team changed the game. Since our inception, our market leading cloud-native platform has offered unparalleled protection against the most sophisticated cyberattacks. We’re looking for people with limitless passion, a relentless focus on innovation and a fanatical commitment to the customer to join us in shaping the future of cybersecurity. Consistently recognized as a top workplace, CrowdStrike is committed to cultivating an inclusive, remote-first culture that offers people the autonomy and flexibility to balance the needs of work and life while taking their career to the next level. Interested in working for a company that sets the standard and leads with integrity? Join us on a mission that matters – one team, one fight.

 

About the Role:
As an Engineer in the TechOps SRE Team you will be the initial point of entry for production impacting events. The team has responsibility for over 80,000 bare metal and virtual compute nodes. You will be focused on uptime and upskilling the wider team.

 

You will:

• Have expertise with Linux engineering and administration for thousands of bare metal servers and virtual machines
• Be responsible for all operational aspects of our platform – Availability, Latency, Throughput, Monitoring, Issue Response (analysis, remediation, deployment) and Capacity Planning with respect to Latency and Throughput
• Work in a team of highly motivated engineers distributed across the globe
• Troubleshoot server hardware issues
• Use your passion for technology to ensure our platform operates flawlessly 24×7
• Obsess about learning, and champion the newest technologies & tricks with others, raising the technical IQ of the team. We don’t expect you to know all the technology we use but you will be able to get up to speed on new technology quickly
• Have broad exposure to our entire architecture and become one of our experts in our overall process flow
• Have an intrinsic drive to make things better
• Bias towards small development projects and the occasional larger projects
• Have experience with modern monitoring and telemetry stacks (ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk)
• Gather and analyse metrics from both operating systems and applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding
• Ability to lead root-cause analysis for incidents, champion incident response practices and assist in correlating recurring incidents to systemic problems, and drive towards resolution.
• Attend 2-3 business related trips per year for group meetings

 

Key Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience working in a large-scale production environment
• Experience as a sustaining engineering or SRE or an operations background
• Have experience writing technical documentation
• Good understanding of distributed systems and scalability challenges
• The ability to thrive in a fast-paced, test-driven, collaborative and iterative environment
• Demonstrate self-learning capabilities, taking initiative in a fast pace/quickly changing environment
• Collaboration – we embrace collaborating as a team as much as possible
• Experience with storage technologies (Examples: SAN, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, FreeNAS, iSCSI)
• Experience with Infrastructure tools (Examples: Linux, Windows, VMware, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)

 

 

 

 

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Benefits of Working at CrowdStrike:

• Remote-first culture
• Market leader in compensation and equity awards
• Competitive vacation and flexible working arrangements
• Comprehensive and inclusive health benefits
• Physical and mental wellness programs
• Paid parental leave, including adoption
• A variety of professional development and mentorship opportunities
• Offices with stocked kitchens when you need to fuel innovation and collaboration

 

 

CrowdStrike is committed to maintaining an environment of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action. If you need reasonable accommodation to access the information provided on this website, please contact [email protected], for further assistance.

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