at CrowdStrike, Inc. in Springfield, Illinois, United States
Job Description
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, teleco
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CrowdStrike, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any applicants for employment based on their race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, uniformed service member status, or any other status protected by law.
