DevOps Engineer - Splunk

Job Description

About CrowdStrike

CrowdStrike® Inc. (Nasdaq: CRWD), a global cybersecurity leader, is redefining security for the cloud era with an endpoint protection platform built from the ground up to stop breaches. The CrowdStrike Falcon® platform’s single lightweight-agent architecture leverages cloud-scale artificial intelligence (AI) and offers real-time protection and visibility across the enterprise, preventing attacks on endpoints on or off the network. Powered by the proprietary CrowdStrike Threat Graph®, CrowdStrike Falcon correlates over two trillion endpoint-related events per week in real time from across the globe, fueling one of the world’s most advanced data platforms for security.

With CrowdStrike, customers benefit from better protection, better performance and immediate time-to-value delivered by the cloud-native Falcon platform.

There’s only one thing to remember about CrowdStrike: We stop breaches.

Qualifying organizations can gain full access to Falcon PreventTM by starting a free trial.

Learn more: www.crowdstrike.com

We’re building the next-generation infrastructure and security platform for CrowdStrike which includes an application and service delivery platform, massively scalable distributed data storage and replication systems, and a cutting-edge search and distributed graph system. Help us scale CrowdStrike’s infrastructure and products to handle massive growth in traffic and data as we continue to experience dramatic growth in the usage of our products.

We are looking for a skilled DevOps Engineer who can contribute to our team which is responsible for thousands of Splunk systems that run in AWS as well as in Crowdstrike data centers. We handle infrastructure, the Splunk backend and some application development, but the latter is handled mostly by a dedicated application development team. Splunk knowledge is an advantage, but if not, don’t worry, we will teach you.

You will:

• Build automation tools for infrastructure using Python and various technologies including containers
• Participate in, and at times lead, backend engineering efforts from rapid prototypes to large-scale applications using Python
• Brainstorm, define, and build collaboratively with members across multiple team
• Obsess about learning, and champion the newest technologies & tricks with others, raising the technical IQ of the team
• Constantly re-evaluate our product to improve architecture, knowledge models, user experience, performance and stability.
• Be an energetic "self-starter" with the ability to take ownership and be accountable for deliverables

Key Qualifications:

• Linux systems administration, bash scripting
• Configuration management automation using Chef, Puppet or Salt
• Python scripting, automation through scripts

Nice to have skills:

• Good knowledge of Splunk search processing language (SPL), reporting, dashboards, and search acceleration techniques
• Experience administering Splunk, especially clusters and bundle replication, custom search commands, KV Store
• Javascript
• AWS Cloud
• Container technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes
• Experience programming with the Splunk REST API
• Regular expressions
• Good knowledge of Splunk data ingestion, field extraction and post-ingestion processing

Benefits of Working at CrowdStrike:

• Market leader in compensation and equity awards
• Competitive vacation policy
• Comprehensive health benefits
• Paid paternity and maternity leave, including adoption
• Flexible work environment
• Wellness programs
• Stocked fridges, coffee, soda, and lots of treats

We are committed to building an inclusive culture of belonging that not only embraces the diversity of our people but also reflects the diversity of the communities in which we work and the customers we serve. We know that the happiest and highest performing teams include people with diverse perspectives and ways of solving problems so we strive to attract and retain talent from all backgrounds and create workplaces where everyone feels empowered to bring their full, authentic selves to work.

CrowdStrike is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex including sexual orientation and gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

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