Network Engineer - Automation (Remote)

#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 network automation engineer who has a solid track record of building and operating hyper-scale networks. In this role, you will develop and deploy tools to improve automated provisioning, management, and workflow integrations for our network infrastructure. You will work collaboratively with other teams, network engineers, and leads to help define and implement our automation framework and full lifecycle platform.

What You’ll Do:

• Develops complex full lifecycle automation solutions and pipelines to work with existing and new network technologies running on switches, routers, load balancers, firewalls, and servers

• Creates and maintains middleware to support cross-team information and workflow integrations

• Evaluates, implements, and supports 3rd party orchestration, automation, and tooling solutions

• Interacts with network engineers to create innovative solutions to reduce network impacting incidents, improve speed and accuracy of changes, reduce manual work, and streamline workflows.

• Builds REST APIs using Python

• Maintains the continuous integration servers used by the team

• Responsible for resolving deployment or tooling outage events

What You’ll Need:

• 5+ years of experience in software development supporting production networks at-scale

• Experience in developing and supporting a full SDN deployment stack from UI/API service creation to state maintenance to final reclamation of network services

• Automation and deployment experience interacting with multiple network operating systems like Arista, Juniper, Cisco, Nokia, Cumulus, and SONiC using OpenConfig and other standard deployment methods

• Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code using tools such as Python, Ansible, YAML, or Netconf/YANG, Chef, Puppet

• Experience in building end to end pipelines with CI tools such as Jenkins

• Experience developing service-oriented systems, REST APIs

• Experience in networking principles and protocols such as BGP, OSPF, ISIS, VRF, VxLAN, EVPN, QoS, MPLS, IP SEC, DNS, MACsec

• Understand the impacts of changes and considers deployment methodologies on network infrastructure as it relates to scalability, technological capabilities, and service resiliency

• Eagerly takes initiative to fix issues before being assigned to them. Persistent when facing roadblocks, overcoming them efficiently, and pulling in others when necessary.

• Able to brainstorm, design, and build collaboratively with members across multiple teams.

• Strives to mentor and help fellow Crowdstrike engineers grow.

Bonus Points:

• Experience with automating and deploying distributed network services on Linux servers

• Authored and led successful open source libraries and projects.

• Contributions to the open source community (GitHub, Stack Overflow, blogging).

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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 Recruiting@crowdstrike.com for further assistance.

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