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Engineer II, Site Reliability (Remote, United Kingdom)
CrowdStrike · United Kingdom · Remote
United KingdomExp: 5+ yrsRemote
Remuneration
Not specified
Location
United Kingdom · Remote
Greenwich Mean Time (UTC+0)
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
The Engineer II supports a commercial cloud platform built on large-scale distributed systems, developing software automation and tooling for reliable delivery of mission-critical services. The role covers Linux administration across bare-metal servers and virtual machines, platform availability and performance, monitoring, capacity planning, hardware troubleshooting, and incident analysis and response. The work uses telemetry tools such as ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, and Zabbix, alongside configuration management and programming technologies.
Benefits
Compensation and equity awardsPhysical and mental wellness programsVacation and holidaysPaid parental and adoption leaveProfessional development opportunitiesEmployee networks and volunteer opportunities
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
- At least five years of experience in a large-scale production environment.
- At least two years of software engineering experience.
- At least two years of experience with one or more of C++, Java, Python, or Go.
- Experience with storage technologies such as SAN, NAS, NFS, object storage, FreeNAS, or iSCSI.
- Experience with infrastructure technologies such as Linux, Windows, VMware, Docker, or Kubernetes.
- Experience writing technical documentation.
- Configuration management experience with Puppet, Chef, or Ansible.
- Understanding of application design and its operational trade-offs.
- Analytical skills, ownership, urgency, and ability to work in a diverse, team-focused environment.
- Ability to communicate and present reliability conventions.
- Experience using AI technologies to improve decision-making, workflows, efficiency, and business outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Administer Linux across thousands of bare-metal servers and virtual machines.
- Manage platform availability, latency, throughput, monitoring, incident response, and capacity planning.
- Develop software automation, tooling, and projects to support mission-critical services.
- Participate in an on-call rotation and maintain 24x7 platform operations.
- Troubleshoot server hardware issues.
- Gather and analyze operating system and application metrics for performance tuning and fault finding.
- Lead incident analysis, improve incident response practices, identify systemic problems, and drive resolutions.
- Build expertise in the platform architecture and operational processes.
Skills
AnsibleChefC++DockerGoGrafanaJavaKubernetesLinuxPrometheusPuppetPythonVMwareWindowsElasticsearchKibanaLogstash
Degrees
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
Work schedule
On-call rotation24x7 platform operations
Industry
Cybersecurity
Relocation
No