Senior Director, Cloud & Network Infrastructure
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Sr. Director of Cloud & Network Infrastructure at CrowdStrike defining cloud strategies and managing engineering teams. Leading efforts in automation, reliability, and network security across global operations.
Responsibilities:
- Define and own the multi-year roadmap for enterprise cloud and network infrastructure, aligning with CrowdStrike's broader technology and business strategy
- Serve as a key thought leader and advisor to the VP of Digital Employee Experience & IT Operations, translating business requirements into infrastructure strategy
- Build and champion a culture of engineering excellence, continuous improvement, and operational discipline across cloud and network work teams
- Establish and track OKRs, KPIs, and SLOs/SLAs that reflect infrastructure health, reliability, and team performance
- Lead the strategy, design, and operations of CrowdStrike's enterprise cloud environments across major providers (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Drive cloud optimization initiatives including cost governance (FinOps), right-sizing, and resource lifecycle management
- Oversee cloud architecture standards, ensuring scalability, high availability, and security-by-design principles are embedded in all infrastructure decisions
- Champion the adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, or AWS CloudFormation to eliminate manual provisioning and enforce consistency at scale
- Own the strategy and operations of CrowdStrike's global enterprise network, including SD-WAN, SASE/SSE frameworks, DNS, DHCP, and network segmentation
- Drive the evolution of network architecture toward zero-trust principles, working in close partnership with the CrowdStrike Security organization and leveraging CrowdStrike's own Falcon platform capabilities
- Ensure network reliability, performance, and observability across global office locations, data centers, and cloud interconnects
- Establish and mature a DevOps and SRE practice within the infrastructure organization, embedding reliability engineering, blameless post-mortems, and error budget frameworks into day-to-day operations
- Drive aggressive automation of infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, patching, and remediation workflows using tools such as Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or similar
- Build and mature CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure changes, enabling rapid, safe, and auditable delivery of infrastructure updates
- Implement and mature observability practices — including centralized logging, metrics, and distributed tracing — to proactively detect and resolve infrastructure issues before they impact end users
- Recruit, develop, and retain a world-class team of cloud engineers, network engineers, and SREs
- Foster a psychologically safe, respectful, and high-performance team culture consistent with CrowdStrike's values
- Provide clear career pathing, mentorship, and growth opportunities for team members at all levels
- Manage team capacity, headcount planning, and vendor relationships in partnership with Finance and Procurement
- Ensure infrastructure environments meet CrowdStrike's security, compliance, and regulatory requirements (SOC 2, FedRAMP, ISO 27001, etc.)
- Partner with the Information Security and GRC teams to maintain continuous compliance posture and support audit readiness
- Own infrastructure-related risk identification, mitigation planning, and disaster recovery/business continuity strategies
Requirements:
- 12+ years of progressive experience in cloud and/or network infrastructure engineering, with at least 5+ years in a senior leadership role managing multi-disciplinary infrastructure teams
- Demonstrated success building and scaling enterprise cloud infrastructure in a high-growth, fast-paced technology company
- Deep hands-on expertise with one or more major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), including architecture, networking, IAM, and cost management
- Strong command of Infrastructure as Code tools and practices (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation, or equivalent)
- Proven experience implementing DevOps and/or SRE practices within an infrastructure organization, including CI/CD for infrastructure, error budgets, and SLO frameworks
- Solid understanding of enterprise networking concepts including SD-WAN, BGP, OSPF, MPLS, VPN, DNS/DHCP, and network security
- Experience with configuration management and automation tooling (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or similar)
- Strong track record of leading large-scale infrastructure modernization or transformation programs
- Excellent communication and executive presence — able to translate complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders and influence at the C-suite level
- Experience managing budgets, vendor contracts, and cross-functional stakeholder relationships.
Benefits:
- Market leader in compensation and equity awards
- Comprehensive physical and mental wellness programs
- Competitive vacation and holidays for recharge
- Paid parental and adoption leaves
- Professional development opportunities for all employees regardless of level or role
- Employee Networks, geographic neighborhood groups, and volunteer opportunities to build connections
- Vibrant office culture with world class amenities
- Great Place to Work Certified™ across the globe
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