Description:
The TechOps CICD team is dedicated to empowering CrowdStrike’s engineering teams to provide robust, reliable CICD ecosystem to build, test and deploy their code for smooth software release delivery. The TechOps CICD team has several subgroups based on their function or capacity they operate in.
This role of engineering manager is to lead our growing TechOps CICD SDA (Software Delivery Automation) Team distributed across different time zones. This team is responsible for developing and implementing new as well as enhancing/streamlining existing CICD workflows to ensure faster and quality software release delivery for CrowdStrike’s customers.
What You’ll Do
- You will lead a team of DevOps engineers focused on delivering mission-critical software through CICD automation. These engineers are high-performing individuals with broad and wider technical skills and deep knowledge of industry standard CICD, build and deployment systems supporting multiple team disciplines in EMEA/APAC.
- Align, guide and empower engineers to automate and manage critical processes, optimize usage of CICD processes/tools, integrate build and test agent provisioning systems for automated pipelines, help resolve and unblock escalated issues and integration problems affecting delivery workflows.
- You will be required to take initiative on establishing and cultivating key relationships with other leaders within the organization. Investigate and evaluate next generation technologies and provide insight on future roadmap goals to ensure CrowdStrike continues to be the leader in Cybersecurity.
- Analyze and understand the project requirements, urgency/criticality and then prioritize accordingly.
- Triage problem tickets to make sure they are properly prioritized and investigated to ensure our partner’s need are addressed with respect to support they need from our team.
What You’ll Need
Soft Skills:
- 10+ years of experience working as a build engineer or software engineer with preferably 3+ years of engineering management experience in a large-scale environment.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills are required.
- Must be able to work with a distributed team across multiple time zones.
- Potential for 1 or 2 business meetings per year.
- Must work effectively and professionally as part of a team with worldwide, cross-functional groups across divisions.
- Must exhibit meticulous attention to detail and have the ability to make well-informed, timely decisions and prioritize numerous simultaneous tasks based on urgency and priority.
- Demonstrate self-learning capabilities, taking initiative in a fast-paced/quickly changing environment.
- Security-first mindset and general understanding of cybersecurity principles.