About CrowdStrike

CrowdStrike stands at the forefront of cybersecurity as a global leader protecting people, processes, and technologies driving modern organizations. Since 2011, our unwavering mission has been to stop breaches using the world's most advanced AI-native platform, the Falcon platform. We process nearly 3 trillion events daily across large-scale distributed systems, serving customers in every industry who rely on us to keep businesses running, communities safe, and lives moving forward. Our remote-first culture empowers every CrowdStriker with flexibility and autonomy to own their careers, fostering limitless passion, relentless innovation, and fanatical commitment to customers, community, and each other.

Role Overview

CrowdStrike is seeking a Manager, Infrastructure and Operations - Identity Protection in Austin, Texas (hybrid role requiring office visits twice weekly once established). This highly-technical engineering leadership position focuses on elevating our infrastructure and production operations. You'll lead a growing team of high-performance engineers developing infrastructure services for CrowdStrike's engineering teams. With hands-off management empowering autonomy, you'll align efforts with organizational goals while driving cost efficiency and resiliency in public cloud environments like AWS, GCP, Azure, and OCI.

Hybrid Work Model

This hybrid position in Austin offers the best of collaboration and flexibility, supporting CrowdStrike's remote-first culture while ensuring strategic on-site presence for team synergy.

Key Responsibilities

As Manager, you'll spearhead initiatives to build robust infrastructure platforms at scale:

• Manage a growing team of engineers focused on high-quality infrastructure platforms.
• Participate in architecting large-scale infrastructure for service teams.
• Provide strategic leadership with hands-off management, empowering autonomy and goal alignment.
• Drive cost optimization across infrastructure, balancing efficiency, performance, and resiliency.
• Handle resource allocation, budgeting, and cost forecasting for projects.
• Collaborate with cross-functional leaders to align infrastructure with business objectives.
• Develop KPIs and metrics for team performance, efficiency, and optimization success.
• Mentor talent, fostering career development and an innovative team culture.

Qualifications & Requirements

To excel in this role, bring proven expertise:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; Master's preferred.
• 7+ years in Infrastructure engineering or DevOps; 3+ years in management.
• Strong grasp of public cloud infrastructure, production operations, and cost optimization (AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI).
• Experience managing budgets and optimizing cloud costs.
• Proficiency in software development for infrastructure (IaC, Python, Chef, Ansible).
• Track record leading high-performing teams with hands-off approaches.

Bonus Points: Remote team experience (USA/Europe), exceptional communication, on-call familiarity, SRE/DevOps/GitOps knowledge. This role requires periodic background and fingerprint checks for government compliance.

Benefits & Perks

CrowdStrike offers unmatched rewards as a market leader in compensation:

• Competitive salary $140,000 - $215,000+ USD with equity awards.
• Comprehensive physical and mental wellness programs.
• Generous vacation, holidays, paid parental/adoption leaves.
• Professional development for all employees.
• Employee Networks, volunteer opportunities, vibrant office amenities.
• Great Place to Work Certified™ globally, with equal opportunity commitment supporting veterans and disabilities.

Career Growth

At CrowdStrike, career ownership is core to our culture. This managerial role provides strategic leadership exposure, cross-functional collaboration, and talent development opportunities. Grow by architecting mission-critical systems, optimizing trillion-event-scale operations, and advancing in cybersecurity innovation. Our remote-first approach and global teams (USA, Europe) build versatile leaders ready for executive paths.

Why Join CrowdStrike

Join a mission that matters: stopping breaches with the Falcon platform's AI-native power. Thrive in a premium environment valuing innovation, autonomy, and impact. With rapid growth processing 3 trillion daily events, your contributions safeguard global enterprises. Embrace our fanatical customer focus, community commitment, and high-performance culture in Austin's thriving tech scene.

Role FAQs

Q: Is this role fully remote? No, it's hybrid in Austin, TX, with twice-weekly office visits post-development center setup.

Q: What clouds are prioritized? AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI, with private cloud experience valued.

Q: Management style? Hands-off, empowering autonomy while aligning to goals.

Q: Salary range? $140,000 - $215,000 USD base, plus equity and comprehensive benefits.

Q: Background checks? Yes, periodic for government customer requirements.

Ready to redefine cybersecurity? Apply now to lead infrastructure excellence at CrowdStrike.