Incident Response Analyst (Remote, ROU)

Position Overview

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CrowdStrike is a global leader in cybersecurity, protecting people, processes, and technologies that drive modern organizations. Our mission since 2011 has been to stop breaches, and we have redefined modern security with the world's most advanced AI-native platform. We are a mission-driven company fostering a culture of flexibility and autonomy, seeking talented individuals with passion, innovation, and a commitment to our customers, community, and each other.

About the Role

CrowdStrike is seeking a motivated Incident Response Analyst to support the incident-response lifecycle as the first line of defense within the CSIRT. This role involves triaging detections, investigating alerts, and taking rapid action (live response, containment, escalation) to defend against adversaries. You will collaborate with seasoned Incident Responders to enhance our security team.

Are you interested in:

• Applying hands-on technical skills to detect, contain, and remediate incidents?
• Rapidly accelerating your skills in a self-motivated environment?
• Diving into logs, endpoint telemetry, and more to assess event scope and severity?
• Working with like-minded security professionals in a world-class team for learning and mentorship?
• Fine-tuning detections that will block future attacks?
• Collaborating with a diverse, high-performing team and communicating technical risk to stakeholders?

Responsibilities

• Provide continuous coverage for SIEM/SOAR, EDR, network, cloud, and email-security consoles; validate alerts, enrich with context, suppress false positives, and act on confirmed threats.
• Gather evidence from logs, host telemetry, and threat-intel feeds to determine scope, severity, and business impact.
• Execute pre-approved playbook actions (host isolation, account disablement, phishing-email purge, firewall block, etc.) and confirm containment success.
• Escalate high-severity or complex incidents to senior analysts/IR leadership with concise summaries and proposed mitigation steps, remaining engaged through resolution.
• Consistently meet or exceed response-time targets for critical and high-urgency tickets.
• Record investigative steps, evidence, and decisions in the ticketing system; deliver clear shift-handoff notes for 24x7 operations.
• Identify noisy rules, false-positive trends, blind spots, or missing log sources; collaborate on custom detections and log-source onboarding to improve alert fidelity.
• Participate in refining existing runbooks, drafting new ones, and championing automation opportunities to reduce analyst workload.

Requirements

• 1–3 years of hands-on SOC experience performing alert triage, incident handling, and first-responder containment, with daily use of SIEM/SOAR, EDR, IDS/IPS, firewalls/proxies, email-security tools, and deep log analysis.
• Practical knowledge of Windows, macOS, and Linux internals and logging (Event Logs, Sysmon, auditd, etc.).
• Solid understanding of TCP/IP, OSI layers, and common protocols (HTTP/S, DNS, SMTP); ability to interpret packet captures and network logs.
• Proficiency with search/query languages (LQL, SPL, KQL, SQL etc.) for alert enrichment and indicator investigation, mapping findings to MITRE ATT&CK techniques.
• Demonstrated experience responding