Principal Enterprise Network Architect (Remote)

As a global leader in cybersecurity, CrowdStrike protects the people, processes and technologies that drive modern organizations. Since 2011, our mission hasn’t changed — we’re here to stop breaches, and we’ve redefined modern security with the world’s most advanced AI-native platform. Our customers span all industries, and they count on CrowdStrike to keep their businesses running, their communities safe and their lives moving forward. We’re also a mission-driven company. We cultivate an inclusive culture that gives every CrowdStriker both the flexibility and autonomy to own their careers. We’re always looking to add talented CrowdStrikers to the team who have limitless passion, a relentless focus on innovation and a fanatical commitment to our customers, our community and each other. Ready to join a mission that matters? The future of cybersecurity starts with you.

About the Role:

CrowdStrike Information Technology is seeking a Principal Enterprise Network Architect to join the IT Network Engineering team. This individual will play a key role in driving network architecture within a collaborative environment that will enable the team to build and support enterprise network infrastructure at global scale. In support of the role, the successful candidate will create a strategic roadmap in alignment with industry best practices and drive implementation by providing technical leadership to functional and dynamic teams.

This is an opportunity to work in a robust, fast-paced, and challenging environment. Candidates should be interested in expanding their breadth of knowledge, continually learning new technologies and processes, and solving difficult problems by thinking quickly and developing innovative solutions.

What You’ll Do:

• Collaborate with team members, IT leadership, and enterprise stakeholders on cloud, data center, and premise network architecture for global scale; document problem statements, project requirements, and current state network architecture.

• Lead the development of a strategic roadmap for networking at global scale; drive ongoing efforts to ensure that the strategic roadmap is continually aligned with IT Operations and business objectives.

• Provide clear and concise recommendations to remediate performance/scaling bottlenecks.

• Create and update graphical and written network architecture documentation following industry best practices.

• Maintain expertise in routing, switching, load balancing, wireless networking, and network security technologies to ensure that cost-effective solutions and processes are deployed and aligned with business and security needs.

• Monitor network infrastructure and traffic; identify and document problem areas and recommend network infrastructure and performance improvements based on current and projected enterprise network environment.

• Assess new technologies and best practices for adoption.

• Drive standardization and automation in all aspects of the network environment.

• Create and maintain graphical and written network architecture, infrastructure, and technical standards documentation.

• Communicate with all stakeholders in a timely, clear, and concise manner.

• Prepare and deliver professional presentations to technical and non-technical audiences at all levels.

• Provide technical leadership to functional project teams and cross-team major initiatives.

What You’ll Need:

• 10+ years’ experience architecting scalable cloud, data center, and office network infrastructure using public cloud technology and enterprise-class routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, and wireless networking devices; demonstrated large-scale success with both greenfield and brownfield network architecture initiatives is a must.

• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with members of multiple teams in multiple global regions; demonstrated experience as a people leader is a must.

• 10+ years’ experience with OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, and multicast routing protocols, Voice Over IP, and QoS configuration on routers and switches in enterprise environments using IPv4.

• 5+ years’ experience architecting multi-region/AZ/VPC cloud and hybrid cloud networks within AWS and other major public cloud environments, including GCP and/or Azure; AWS experience must include AWS VPN, Direct Connect, transit gateway, VPC peering, Network ACLs and security groups, ELB, Route 53; experience with other public cloud environments must include the equivalent cloud networking elements.

• 5+ years’ experience configuring, managing, and monitoring Palo Alto Networks firewalls using Panorama.

• Experience managing and deploying premise and Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) platfo