Engineer II - Site Reliability, Kubernetes (Remote, EST)

CrowdStrike is hiring an Engineer II to operate and maintain Kubernetes clusters supporting its Falcon platform across company data centers and public clouds. The role focuses on cluster reliability, incident response, infrastructure automation, monitoring, and collaboration with the platform engineering team.

Responsibilities:

• Operate and maintain large Kubernetes clusters in our data centers and in public cloud
• Troubleshoot problems with nodes, pods, networking, DNS, storage, and the control plane, and escalate when a problem needs more help
• Take shifts in the on-call rotation and work incidents through to resolution with the rest of the team
• Carry out planned changes like cluster and node upgrades, add-on updates, certificate rotation, and adding capacity, following our change process
• Build and tune alerts and dashboards in Prometheus, Thanos, Alertmanager, and Grafana
• Write tools in Go or Python to replace repetitive manual work
• Keep runbooks and documentation up to date
• Use AI tools in your daily work to troubleshoot and automate
• Join design discussions and learn how the wider platform fits together

Requirements:

• Must be eligible for CJIS clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship or Green Card/permanent resident status
• 3+ years in infrastructure, systems, or platform engineering, with at least 2 years running Kubernetes in production
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes workloads, services, networking, ingress, DNS, storage, and RBAC, and how to troubleshoot them with kubectl and logs
• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills
• Experience with Prometheus, Alertmanager, and Grafana
• Programming or scripting experience in Go or Python, and an interest in writing more Go
• Experience with at least one of AWS, GCP, or OCI
• Experience with Ansible, Terraform, Helm, or similar tools, and with git
• Willingness to be on call
• Experience using AI tools in your engineering work
• Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes
• Thanos experience
• Experience with Kubernetes add-ons such as CoreDNS, ingress controllers, CNI plugins, or cert-manager
• Experience deploying microservices
• Exposure to writing Kubernetes controllers or operators
• Experience with bare metal or on-premises infrastructure
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or a similar certification
• Experience working with both local and remote teams
• Clear written and verbal communication
• Comfortable working on your own, and knows when to ask the team for help
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science