Manager, Network Engineering - Transport (Remote)

#WeAreCrowdStrike and our mission is to stop breaches. As a global leader in cybersecurity, our team changed the game. Since our inception, our market leading cloud-native platform has offered unparalleled protection against the most sophisticated cyberattacks. We work on large scale distributed systems, processing over 1 trillion events a day with a petabyte of RAM deployed in our Cassandra clusters - and this traffic is growing daily. We’re looking for people with limitless passion, a relentless focus on innovation and a fanatical commitment to developing and shaping our cybersecurity platform. Consistently recognized as a top workplace, CrowdStrike is committed to cultivating an inclusive, remote-first culture that offers people the autonomy and flexibility to balance the needs of work and life while taking their career to the next level. Interested in working for a company that sets the standard and leads with integrity? Join us on a mission that matters - one team, one fight.

About the Role:

CrowdStrike is looking for an engineering leader with a solid track record of building and operating optical networks to join our Backbone Network Engineering team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, deploying, and operating our global optical network. You will work closely with other engineering teams to drive the strategy, planning, and execution of our network backbone.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead geographically diverse team of engineers in planning, deploying, and maintaining our optical network infrastructure

• Drive strategy to scale network deployment and operation while maintaining consistency and stability

• Partner with other engineering teams to understand near- and long-term plans for network expansion and develop a capacity plan

• Develop dark fiber strategy, secure routes and aid in negotiations

• Oversee evolution of our optical infrastructure to achieve capacity, resiliency, and latency requirements

• Develop reports and collaborate with finance teams to forecast OPEX and ensure cost optimization.

• Develop scripts and tools to automate repetitive tasks to improve velocity

• Participate in 24x7 on-call rotations

What You Need:

• Must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident

• 10+ years of experience in building and operating multi-vendor optical backbone and metro networks

• 5+ years of managing geographically distributed technical engineering teams

• Experience with CWDM/DWDM optical transport systems including: Nokia, Adva, Ciena, Infinera.

• Experience with carrier fiber vendors, ordering processes and network portfolio maps.

• Experience with IP/MPLS backbone networks

Bonus Points:

• Experience in deploying and supporting connectivity on public cloud, such as AWS, Azure, and GCP

• Familiarity with …