Job Summary

CrowdStrike is in search of an Engineer II - Virtualization to join our growing Production Services team. The candidate will play an important role in engineering and maintaining solutions for our production systems environments.

What You'll Do

- Design and maintain complex technical systems architecture, providing recommendations for improvement
- Manage and support large-scale production deployments of servers and applications inside internal datacenters
- Administer Linux systems across thousands of bare metal servers and virtual machines
- Develop and improve scripts, automation tools, and operational workflows - leveraging AI tools where applicable to accelerate development and enhance solutions (Python, Go, PowerShell)
- Troubleshoot server hardware, hypervisor, and infrastructure issues
- Participate in on-call rotation with incident management responsibilities including response via PagerDuty, troubleshooting with or without runbooks, and contribution to post-mortems

What You'll Need

- Bachelors degree and/or equivalent experience in Computer Science
- Experience with infrastructure technologies at scale including Linux, Windows, VMware, Docker, and Kubernetes
- Hands-on experience administering large-scale OpenStack environments in production
- Experience managing VMware vCenter/ESXi at scale including HA, DRS, and vMotion
- Working knowledge of L2/L3 networking, VLANs, bonding/LACP, BGP and DHCP
- Configuration management experience with one or more tools such as Puppet,



Chef, or Ansible
- Experience writing technical documentation
- Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes.

Bonus Points

- Knowledge of vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM)
- Knowledge of bare metal provisioning using OpenStack Ironic or Bifrost
- Knowledge of block storage solutions, such as TrueNAS, Ceph/Rook-Ceph, or Dell PowerFlex
- Knowledge of networking protocols (DNS, HTTP, SMTP, SNMP) and the OSI model
- Knowledge of monitoring solutions, such as Prometheus, Grafana and Zabbix
- Knowledge of CI/CD and configuration management tools (GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Chef, Ansible, Salt)
- Self-learning capabilities, taking initiative in a fast-paced, constantly changing environment
- Work effectively and professionally with cross-functional groups across divisions, worldwide, as part of a team
- Team-player, positive attitude and flexible with a distributed team in multiple time zones
- Must exhibit meticulous attention to detail, and have the ability to make positive, timely decisions
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required

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📌 Engineer II - Virtualization (Bengaluru)
🏢 CrowdStrike
📍 Bengaluru