Automation Manager

CrowdStrike is hiring an Automation Engineering Manager to help grow our team of engineers focused on building, deploying and maintaining a first class cloud automation and test infrastructure in support of the Falcon platform. We are looking for a highly-technical leader with experience managing a distributed team and a solid understanding of several key technologies.

This is a Hybrid position open to candidates in the Israel area.

What You'll Do

• Lead the IDP cloud SDET team and work with all the stakeholder teams to guarantee cloud software and deployment quality
• Lead cloud test direction, test strategy, test design/development/execution and reporting
• Hands-on design and development of test framework/tools and scripts to achieve test efficiency and productivity to ensure functionality, reliability, performance, scalability of cloud.
• Work with other quality leaders to understand product quality and automation gaps and opportunities, customer engagement as it relates to quality, and continuously reviewing the impact of automation work.
• Support our cloud test platform as it relates to other test and pipeline activities
• Hire, coach, and support engineers as needed.

What You’ll Need

• 3+ years of automation team leadership experience
• Proven experience building / designing complex automation infrastructure
• Solid proficiency in Python
• Familiarity with Go / Java
• Solid understanding in testing methodologies
• Hands on development or test expertise in Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, Redis, MongoDB
• Solid design and problem solving skills with demonstrated passion for engineering excellence, quality, security, and performance
• Firm grounding in the technology of at least one cloud environment (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Broad understanding of distributed systems concepts and development
• Experience shipping high quality software product releases to a production cloud environment
• Strong team management and coordination experience
• Strong cross-group collaboration and interpersonal skills working with a variety of roles including engineering, product management, support, and sales engineering
• Demonstrated ability to attract and hire talent and grow the team rapidly

Bonus Points

• Experience in or working with cybersecurity or intelligence fields
• Experience with Go-based web services and working with scalable microservices architectures
• Experience with containerization and container orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience working with AWS, ElasticSearch, Kafka, and Redis