Sr. Director, Cloud & Network Infrastructure (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 a 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 is looking for a Sr. Director of Cloud and Network Infrastructure to join our Digital Employee Experience & IT Operations organization. This is a senior leadership role responsible for defining and executing the future-state strategy for CrowdStrike's enterprise cloud and network infrastructure. You will lead a team of highly skilled engineers and architects, driving a culture of automation, reliability, and engineering excellence rooted in Infrastructure as Code (IaC), DevOps, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles. This leader will partner closely with Security, IT Operations, Service Desk, and Engineering stakeholders to build scalable, resilient, and secure infrastructure that enables CrowdStrike's global workforce and business operations to move at the speed of innovation. What You'll Do: Strategic Leadership

• Define and own the multi-year roadmap for enterprise cloud and network infrastructure, aligning with CrowdStrike's broader technology and business strategy
• Serve as a key thought leader and advisor to the VP of Digital Employee Experience & IT Operations, translating business requirments into infrastructure strategy
• Build and champion a culture of engineering excellence, continuous improvement, and operational discipline across cloud and network work teams
• Establish and track OKRs, KPIs, and SLOs/SLAs that reflect infrastructure health, reliability, and team performance

Cloud Infrastructure

• Lead the strategy, design, and operations of CrowdStrike's enterprise cloud environments across major providers (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Drive cloud optimization initiatives including cost governance (FinOps), right-sizing, and resource lifecycle management
• Oversee cloud architecture standards, ensuring scalability, high availability, and security-by-design principles are embedded in all infrastructure decisions
• Champion the adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, or AWS CloudFormation to eliminate manual provisioning and enforce consistency at scale

Network Infrastructure

• Own the strategy and operations of CrowdStrike's global enterprise network, including SD-WAN, SASE/SSE frameworks, DNS, DHCP, and network segmentation
• Drive the evolution of network architecture toward zero-trust principles, working in close partnership with the CrowdStrike Security organization and leveraging CrowdStrike's own Falcon platform capabilities
• Ensure network reliability, performance, and observability across global office locations, data centers, and cloud interconnects

Automation & DevOps/SRE

• Establish and mature a DevOps and SRE practice within the infrastructure organization, embedding reliability engineering, blameless post-mortems, and error budget frameworks into day-to-day operations
• Drive aggressive automation of infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, patching, and remediation workflows using tools such as Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or similar
• Build and mature CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure changes, enabling rapid, safe, and auditable delivery of infrastructure updates
• Implement and mature observability practices — including centralized logging, metrics, and distributed tracing — to proactively detect and resolve infrastructure issues before they impact end users

People Leadership

• Recruit, develop, and retain a world-class team of cloud engineers, network engineers, and SREs
• Foster a psychologically safe, respectful, and high-performance team culture consistent with CrowdStrike's values
• Provide clear career pathing, mentorship, and growth opportunities for team members at all levels
• Manage team capacity, headcount planning, and vendor relationships in partnership