Analyst, Endpoint Protection Team

Employment Type: Full-time

Location: St. Louis, MO

Position Overview

CrowdStrike is seeking highly motivated and self-driven technical analysts to join our virtual security operations center. In this role, you will protect organizations against the most advanced attackers in the world, expanding your skill set through diverse experiences in detecting and responding to security incidents in real-time for our customers.

About CrowdStrike

CrowdStrike is a global leader in cybersecurity, protecting the people, processes, and technologies that drive modern organizations. Since 2011, our mission has been to stop breaches. We have redefined modern security with the world's most advanced AI-native platform. Our customers span all industries, and they rely on CrowdStrike to keep their businesses running, their communities safe, and their lives moving forward. We are a mission-driven company that cultivates a culture of flexibility and autonomy, empowering every CrowdStriker to own their careers. We are always looking for talented individuals with limitless passion, a relentless focus on innovation, and a fanatical commitment to our customers, community, and each other. The future of cybersecurity starts with you.

Are You the Right Candidate?

• Are you interested in applying your hands-on technical skills to detect, contain, and remediate incidents?
• Are you self-motivated and seeking an opportunity to rapidly accelerate your skills?
• Do you crave innovative work that makes a real difference for customers?
• Do you have an Incident Response or Information Security background that you're eager to fully utilize?
• Are you capable of leading teams and interacting effectively with customers?
• Do you enjoy working with like-minded, intelligent individuals from whom you can learn and whom you can mentor daily?

What You'll Do

• Exercise incident handling processes across Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms.
• Perform basic malware analysis.
• Develop and improve processes for incident detection and the execution of countermeasures.
• Produce high-quality written and verbal communications, recommendations, and findings to customer management.
• Demonstrate industry thought leadership through blog posts, CrowdCasts, and other public speaking events.

What You'll Need

Successful candidates will have experience in one or more of the following areas:

• Incident Handling: Experience conducting or managing incident response for organizations, investigating targeted threats such as the Advanced Persistent Threat (APT), Organized Crime, and Hacktivists.
• Computer Forensic Analysis: A background using a variety of forensic analysis tools in incident response investigations to determine the extent and scope of compromise.
• Systems Administration: An understanding of system internals is required to understand how to implement and execute countermeasures and remediation.
• Network Forensic Analysis: Knowledge of network protocols, network analysis tools, and the ability to perform analysis of associated network logs.
• Malware Analysis: Ability to perform static and dynamic malware analysis to understand the nature of malware.
• Incident Remediation: Strong understanding of targeted attacks and the ability to create customized tactical and strategic remediation plans for compromised organizations.
• Network Operations and Architecture/Engineering: Strong understanding of secure network architecture and a strong background in performing network operations.
• Programming/Scripting: Experience coding in C, C#, VB, Python, Perl, Ruby on Rails, and .NET.

Additionally, all candidates must possess the following qualifications:

• Capable of completing technical tasks without supervision.
• Desire to grow and expand both technical and soft skills.
• Strong project management skills.
• Contributing thought leader.