CrowdStrike, Inc. Full time R18347 About the Role:

CrowdStrike is looking for a Network Engineer III who has a solid track record of building and operating hyper-scale hybrid cloud networks. In this role, you will be responsible for the production backbone network. You will develop and support both the IP and Optical technologies that connect our data centers as well as edge connectivity. In addition, you will own major improvement initiatives from ideation to implementation, including funding, planning and operational support.

What You'll Do:

• Build and maintain a high-performance and fault-tolerant production network at-scale

• Analyze requirements and develop solutions of technical problems based on complex business needs

• Hold regular, frequent project meetings to address challenges and drive milestones

• Improve the reliability and efficiency of network operations and practices

• Contribute capacity planning, forecasting, and create plans for growth

• Evaluate technologies for scale, security, and maintainability

• Support the development, testing and integration of new hardware and software platforms

• Diagnose and solve complex network and application problems, and recommend improvements

• Contribute into network automation to enable speed and scale

• Participate in a 24X7 on-call rotation

What You'll Need:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or work-related discipline/field from an accredited college or university. Equivalent field experience considered.

• 5+ years of experience in building and maintaining large scale, complex backbone and data center network infrastructure

• Expert level knowledge in large scale IP networking technologies and protocols such as: MP-BGP, OSPF, ISIS, MPLS, RSVP-TE, VxLAN, EVPN, QoS, DNS, MACsec

• Ability to understand Python/Shell scripts and programs for automation, tools, frameworks, dashboards, alarms.

• Experience with using software development to operate or deploy a large network, such as Python, Ansible, YAML, or Netconf/YANG.

• Proficient with various networking vendors such as Juniper, Nokia, Adva, Arista, Palo Alto, Cisco, HP, etc.

• Experience with building and maintaining network monitoring and graphing tools, as well as streaming telemetry

• Experience with Cloud Providers such as AWS and GCP

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in the automation of systems to reduce operational toil

• A strong track record of developing and improving tools, platforms, and infrastructure.

• Experience with network simulation and testing tools (WAE, Northstar, Spirent, NS-3, NetSim, Batfish, Ixia)

• Production level experience supporting large scale network infrastructure

• Ability to communicate technical detail into succinct and fact-based business terminology, both verbally and in writing

• Ability to plan, organize and prioritize work independently and meet deadlines.

• Customer-focused mindset, with demonstrated skill in managing expectations, providing proactive status updates, and producing high-quality work products

• Work experience in data center, telecom, SaaS, or cloud operations companies

• Ability to use independent judgment to make sound, justifiable decisions and take action to solve problems

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Benefits of Working at CrowdStrike:

Remote-first culture

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