SRE Manager, Engineering (HST, Remote)

About the Role:
As an SRE Manager for CrowdStrike’s Technical Operations team, you will lead a team of engineers in a production environment with tens-of-thousands of bare metal and virtual compute nodes. You will manage a team responsible for day-to-day operations, infrastructure management, and operational excellence. This involves a live-site first mentality for real time response to issues, monitoring of a complex network of assets, provisioning new resources, new data center assets, and the systems administration of core functionality for engineering.

Please note that this role will require you to work HST (Hawaiian) hours.

What You'll Do:
Team Leadership

• Manage and mentor a team of SRE engineers

• Conduct performance reviews, career development planning, and hiring

• Foster a culture of reliability, automation, and continuous improvement

• Coordinate cross-functional collaboration with Engineering, Security, and Operations teams

Technical Operations

• Oversee 24/7 monitoring and incident response for production systems

• Drive SLI/SLO definition and monitoring across services

• Lead post-incident reviews and implement preventive measures

• Ensure compliance with security and regulatory requirements

Strategic Planning

• Develop and execute reliability roadmaps aligned with business objectives

• Capacity planning and infrastructure scaling strategies

• Technology evaluation and adoption decisions

• Budget planning and resource allocation

Process & Automation

• Champion infrastructure-as-code and automation initiatives

• Establish and improve operational procedures and runbooks

• Drive adoption of observability and monitoring

• Implement table-top exercises and disaster recovery testing

What You'll Need:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience.

• 7+ years of engineering experience, preferably in a production role

• 2+ years of hands-on management experience leading engineering teams.

• Demonstrated success in working across organizational boundaries to drive complex

• technical initiatives

• Solid design and problem solving skills with demonstrated passion for engineering

• excellence, quality, security and performance

• Strong cross-group collaboration and interpersonal communication skills working with

• variety of roles including engineering, product management, project management, etc

• Experience leading teams working with one or more of the following technologies: Linux, VMWare, FreeBSD, Storage Area Networks

• Experience leading distributed teams in a remote-first environment

• Proficiency in hybrid/on-prem cloud environments

• Deep understanding of distributed systems and reliability engineering principles

Bonus Points:

Leadership Competencies:

• Strategic thinking and ability to translate business objectives into technical roadmaps

• Excellence in stakeholder management and communication

• Track record of successful cross-functional collaboration

• Strong change management and organizational development skills

• Ability to build consensus and drive decisions across multiple teams

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