DevOps Engineer, Falcon NG-SIEM, FrontTier Expansions (Hybrid, Austin)

CrowdStrike Engineer

As a global leader in cybersecurity, CrowdStrike protects the people, processes and technologies that drive modern organizations. Since 2011, our mission hasn't changed — we're here to stop breaches, and we've redefined modern security with the world's most advanced AI-native platform. We work on large scale distributed systems, processing almost 3 trillion events per day and this traffic is growing daily. Our customers span all industries, and they count on CrowdStrike to keep their businesses running, their communities safe and their lives moving forward. We're also a mission-driven company. We cultivate a culture that gives every CrowdStriker both the flexibility and autonomy to own their careers. We're always looking to add talented CrowdStrikers to the team who have limitless passion, a relentless focus on innovation and a fanatical commitment to our customers, our community and each other. Ready to join a mission that matters? The future of cybersecurity starts with you.

About the Role:

CrowdStrike is seeking an Engineer to help build and expand our global infrastructure footprint. You will be instrumental in learning and establishing operational excellence across multiple cloud platforms, enabling the NGSIEM FrontTier Expansions team to deploy and manage LogScale fleets wherever our customers need them. This role combines hands-on technical work with strategic planning to ensure consistent, reliable, and scalable LogScale operations across a multi- cloud environment.

You'll be working with systems that ingest over 100 PB of event data daily, serve millions of queries per hour, and support thousands of customers globally. This is an opportunity to work at a scale few engineers ever experience, where your contributions directly impact the security posture of organizations worldwide.

This role is hybrid, requiring 2-3 days per week on-site from our Austin, TX Office.

What You'll Do:

• Design and implement infrastructure across multiple cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, OCI) and CrowdStrike managed datacenters
• Develop cloud expertise across multiple platforms, becoming proficient in cloud-native services and best practices for each provider
• Create standardized patterns and frameworks for deploying services across different cloud providers
• Monitor and maintain the health, performance, and reliability of multi-cloud infrastructure processing trillions of events daily
• Implement comprehensive monitoring with Service Level Indicators across different cloud platforms to enable proactive alerting
• Conduct capacity planning and forecasting based on workload patterns across cloud environments
• Provision and scale infrastructure (vertical/horizontal) based on demand and cloud-specific capabilities
• Develop automation tools and microservices for platform components across multiple cloud platforms
• Orchestrate version upgrades, patch management, and configuration changes with minimal customer impact
• Establish security and compliance controls tailored to each cloud platform's requirements
• Collaborate with product management, engineering, and customer support teams to align infrastructure capabilities with product vision and customer needs
• Act as a technical liaison between FrontTier Expansions and internal business partners to ensure infrastructure supports business objectives
• Contribute to delivering world-class performance and reliability for customers
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for testing and releasing configuration and software across clouds
• Deploy, operate, and troubleshoot applications in Kubernetes clusters across managed and self-managed environments
• Participate in on-call rotation to support production infrastructure globally

What You'll Need:

• 5+ years of experience with large-scale, business-critical Linux-based environments
• Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or OCI) with eagerness to learn others
• Experience with configuration management and Infrastructure as Code using Chef, Ansible, or similar tools
• Experience deploying, operating, and troubleshooting applications in Kubernetes clusters in production environments
• Proficiency in scripting and programming using Python, Bash, or Go
• Experience working with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Git, Artifactory, Bitbucket)
• Understanding of distributed systems and data processing at scale
• Knowledge of networking concepts including VPCs, load balancers, and DNS
• Proven ability to work effectively with remote teams across multiple time zones
• Strong analytical skills with ability to make data-driven infrastructure decisions
• Excellent communication skills for documenting solutions and collaborating with distributed teams
• Curiosity about and ability to investigate new cloud technologies, systems, and tools
• A can-do attitude; you thrive collaborating in a team and are not afraid of taking on responsibilities
• Availability for on-call on a rotational basis

Bonus Points:

• Experience with multiple cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, OCI)
• Cloud certifications (AWS Solutions Architect, Google Cloud Engineer, OCI Architect)
• Kubernetes certifications (CKA, CKAD, or CKS)
• Experience with Kubernetes operators and Helm development
• Experience with Kafka or other distributed streaming platforms
• Experience with LogScale/Humio or similar log management systems
• Knowledge of object storage systems (S3, GCS, OCI Object Storage) at scale
• Experience with FinOps and cloud cost optimization
• SRE best practices including SLOs, error budgets, and chaos engineering
• Experience with observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog)
• Effectively utilizing AI coding assistants (e.g., Anthropic Claude) to accelerate development
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• Experience in cybersecurity, SIEM, or security operations environments