Senior Security Analyst

Employment Type: Full-time

Position Overview:

CrowdStrike, a global leader in cybersecurity, protects the people, processes, and technologies that drive modern organizations. Our mission is to stop breaches, and we have redefined modern security with the world's most advanced AI-native platform. We are a mission-driven company that cultivates a culture of flexibility and autonomy, empowering every CrowdStriker to own their careers. We are seeking highly motivated, self-driven, technical senior analysts dedicated to making a difference in global security by protecting organizations against the most advanced attackers. Our virtual security operations center offers opportunities to expand your skill set through a wide variety of experiences, detecting and responding to incidents in real-time to protect our customers.

Do you:

• Enjoy putting your hands-on technical skills to the test in detecting, containing, and remediating incidents?
• Want to respond to incidents of all severities and fight back against adversaries?
• Are you self-motivated and looking for an opportunity to rapidly accelerate your skills?
• Crave new and innovative work that actually matters to your customer?
• Have an Incident Response or Information Security background that you’re not fully utilizing?
• Are you capable of contributing to a diverse team and interacting well with customers?
• Love working around like-minded people in a world-class team where you can both learn from and mentor others?

Responsibilities:

• Conduct monitoring and perform in-depth analysis of security alerts using the CrowdStrike platform.
• Exercise incident handling processes across Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms.
• Perform malware analysis.
• Perform remote remediation of malware or malicious activity.
• Develop and improve processes for incident detection, triage, 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.
• Assist in the advancement of security processes and procedures.

Requirements:

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 Advanced Persistent Threats (APT), Organized Crime, and Hactivists.
• 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.
• 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.
• Programming/Scripting: Experience coding in Powershell, C, C#, VB, Python, Perl, Ruby on Rails, and .NET.
• At least one relevant security certification.
• Strong verbal and communication skills.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Strong experience with Mac OS, Windows, and Unix operating systems.
• Ability to handle high-pressure situations in a productive and professional manner.

Company Information:

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.