Engineer III - Site Reliability, Kubernetes
CrowdStrike3 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Operate and support large-scale Kubernetes clusters across AWS, GCP, OCI, custom data centers, and public clouds.
- Respond to and resolve complex production incidents involving nodes, networking, DNS, storage, and Kubernetes control planes during India hours.
- Plan and execute cluster upgrades, add-on rollouts, capacity changes, testing, risk assessments, and rollback plans.
- Improve platform reliability by addressing recurring issues and technical debt.
- Build monitoring, alerting, and dashboards using Prometheus, Thanos, Alertmanager, and Grafana.
- Develop Go automation and tooling and contribute to Kubernetes controllers and operators.
- Evaluate and integrate open-source tools and Kubernetes add-ons.
- Use AI technologies to improve operational workflows, troubleshooting, decision-making, and efficiency.
- Write design documents, runbooks, and post-incident reviews.
- Mentor Engineer I and II team members and participate in interviewing.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in infrastructure, systems, or platform engineering, including 3+ years operating production Kubernetes clusters at scale.
- Strong knowledge of Kubernetes internals and operations, including the control plane, kubelet, container runtime, networking/CNI, DNS, storage, and upgrades.
- Experience with Prometheus, Thanos, Alertmanager, and Grafana.
- Proficiency in Go; Python experience is a plus.
- Experience with large-scale, business-critical Linux environments.
- Experience operating at least one of AWS, GCP, or OCI and working in on-premises or custom data centers.
- Experience with infrastructure as code and deployment tooling such as Terraform, Ansible, Helm, and GitOps, plus Git version control.
- Ability to manage on-call shifts aligned to India business hours.
- Demonstrated experience using AI technologies to improve workflows, decision-making, efficiency, and business outcomes.
- Bonus qualifications include Kubernetes operator or controller development, bare-metal Kubernetes, microservices deployment, CKA or CKAD certification, mentoring, and cross-time-zone collaboration.
- A bachelor's degree in an applicable field such as computer science, computer information systems, or engineering is a bonus qualification.
Benefits
- Market-leading compensation and equity awards are offered.
- Comprehensive physical and mental wellness programs are provided.
- Competitive vacation and holidays are offered.
- Paid parental and adoption leave is available.
- Professional development opportunities are available for all employees.
- Employee Networks, geographic neighborhood groups, and volunteer opportunities support community building.
- The company offers a vibrant office culture with world-class amenities.
- CrowdStrike is Great Place to Work Certified across the globe.
Tech Stack
Categories
DevOpsSite Reliability
About CrowdStrike
CrowdStrike builds the Falcon cloud-native security platform used by enterprises and governments to protect endpoints, cloud workloads, identities, and data with EDR, next-generation antivirus, threat intelligence, and managed threat hunting. Founded in 2011 and publicly traded on NASDAQ as CRWD, the company sells primarily by subscription and also provides incident response services; its systems ingest and analyze nearly 3 trillion security events per day across customer environments.