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CrowdStrike, Inc. Sr. Network Engineer (Remote) in Kirkland, Washington
CrowdStrike, Inc. Full time R17971
#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 work on large scale distributed systems, processing over 1 trillion events a day with a petabyte of RAM deployed in our Cassandra clusters - and this traffic is growing daily. We're looking for people with limitless passion, a relentless focus on innovation and a fanatical commitment to developing and shaping our cybersecurity platform. 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:
CrowdStrike is looking for a Senior Network Engineer who has a solid track record of building and operating hyper-scale hybrid cloud networks. You will be responsible for the backbone network, working with application groups to understand long term strategy and creating roadmaps. In addition, you will own major improvement initiatives from ideation to implementation, including funding, planning and operational support.
What You'll Do:
Be a hands-on subject matter expert for one or more areas within the network
Create and drive short and long term plans and initiatives for both IP and Optical backbone technologies
Provide technical direction and insight for projects, discovery, and problem management
Partner with application and business teams to align strategy
Provide operational support for multi-vendor, multi-region production network at-scale
Participate in regular, frequent project meetings to address challenges and drive milestones
Improve the reliability and efficiency of production network and drive best practices
Write simple to moderately complex scripts and programs for automation, tools, frameworks,
dashboards, alarms.
Identify, test and integrate new products, operating systems and feature sets
Participate in 24x7 on-call rotations
What You'll Need:
Must have proven track record in leading initiatives independently with minimal supervision
10+ years of experience in designing and building large scale backbone and edge networks
Subject-matter expert in core networking principles and protocols such as MP-BGP, OSPF, ISIS, MPLS, RSVP, VxLAN, EVPN, QoS, DNS, MACsec
Expert in building and operating large scale networks using technologies, such as optical/DWDM, CDN, edge network security, DDoS mitigation, load balancing
Deep understanding of various infrastructure technologies for server virtualization, container, databases, message queuing services, large-scale infrastructure provisioning and management
Extensive experience in deploying and managing large network using scripts or automation frameworks, such as Python, Ansible, YAML, or Netconf/YANG
Working experience in building and managing connectivity on public cloud (AWS, GCP)
Experience in selecting, testing, and deploying networking hardware and software
Proficient with various networking vendors such as Arista, Juniper, Adva, Nokia, Cisco, etc
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or work-related discipline/field from an accredited