SRE/Dev Ops Engineer

CrowdStrike

SRE/Dev Ops Engineer managing production infrastructure across multiple clouds for cybersecurity leader CrowdStrike. Focused on automation, system reliability, and collaboration with engineering teams.

Posted 5/30/2026full-timeSunnyvale • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLead💰 $120,000 - $180,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed SystemsFluxGrafanaJenkinsKubernetesNoSQLPrometheusTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Run production infrastructure - Deploy, upgrade, and maintain platform services across multiple clouds and regions on Kubernetes.
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines - Make it safe and fast to ship infrastructure changes using GitOps workflows and release automation.
Build control planes - Create the APIs and tooling that make provisioning and scaling repeatable and self-service.
Own capacity planning - Track usage, forecast growth, right-size clusters, and keep infrastructure costs in check.
Build observability - Set up metrics, dashboards, and alerts using Prometheus and Grafana.
Write runbooks that make on-call clear and actionable.
Own on-call and incidents - Join the on-call rotation, resolve issues, write postmortems, and turn repeat problems into automation.
Automate everything - Deployments, upgrades, certificate rotations, failover. If you do it by hand more than once, automate it.
Driving system reliability by blending software engineering principles with AI-driven automation, moving from reactive firefighting to proactive, automated operations.
Harden security - set up auth, encryption, secret rotation, and network policies.
Keep dependencies patched and CVEs resolved.
Own disaster recovery - Build backup strategies, test failover, and make sure platforms can survive infrastructure failures.
Enable other teams - Provide templates, patterns, and direct support to help engineering teams use platforms reliably.
Collaborate across teams - Collaborate with Infrastructure, SRE, and Data Services on shared operational problems.

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering.
Hands-on experience running stateful distributed systems on Kubernetes in production.
CI/CD experience - Building and owning pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Tekton, or similar tools.
Infrastructure-as-code skills - Terraform, Pulumi, or Crossplane, no manual configuration.
GitOps experience - ArgoCD or Flux for managing infrastructure deployments.
Observability skills - Prometheus, Grafana, and distributed tracing tools like Jaeger or OpenTelemetry.
Database operations - Backup, restore, schema management, and performance tuning for relational and NoSQL databases.
Security mindset - You implement auth, encryption, secret management, and network policies as part of normal work.
Multi-cloud or multi-region experience - you have managed infrastructure across providers or regions.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Market leader in compensation and equity awards
Comprehensive physical and mental wellness programs
Competitive vacation and holidays for recharge
Paid parental and adoption leaves
Professional development opportunities for all employees regardless of level or role
Employee Networks, geographic neighborhood groups, and volunteer opportunities to build connections
Vibrant office culture with world class amenities
Great Place to Work Certified™ across the globe

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Hard Skills & Tools

KubernetesCI/CDGitOpsTerraformPulumiCrossplanePrometheusGrafanadatabase operationssecurity

Soft Skills

collaborationcapacity planningautomationincident managementproblem-solvingcommunicationsupportproactive operationsteam enablementleadership