Cloud Threat Hunting Senior Consultant

Employment Type: Full time

Position Overview

CrowdStrike is seeking highly motivated and self-driven Cloud Threat Hunters to join our Professional Services team. As a global leader in cybersecurity, CrowdStrike protects organizations against the most advanced adversaries. This role offers the opportunity to expand your skill set through impactful consulting engagements for leading global organizations. The Cloud Threat Hunting Senior Consultant will conduct compromise assessments in cloud environments, analyze cloud control plane configurations, and provide actionable recommendations to enhance customer security postures.

About the Role

CrowdStrike is looking for individuals passionate about making a difference in global security by protecting organizations against advanced adversaries. Our Professional Services team provides opportunities to work on diverse and impactful consulting engagements.

Am I a Cloud Threat Hunting Candidate?

• Are you interested in and up-to-date with the latest Azure, M365, AWS, GCP, and/or OCI feature announcements, vulnerabilities, and breaches?
• Are you self-motivated and seeking an opportunity for rapid skill acceleration?
• Do you crave innovative work that provides tangible value to customers?
• Do you possess a technical Information Security background that you are eager to fully utilize?
• Are you capable of operating as an individual contributor and occasionally leading teams and interacting with customers?
• Do you enjoy working with intelligent, like-minded individuals for mutual learning and mentorship?

Responsibilities

• Leverage analytics, statistical analysis, and threat intelligence to analyze cloud platform logs and identify historical and active threats.
• Review security configurations in cloud environments, correlate data points, and identify cloud control plane configurations associated with threat activity.
• Identify identity and control plane configurations that may expose cloud environments to threats and unauthorized access.
• Write queries and simple scripts to extract data, pivot on findings, correlate data across multiple sources, and identify outliers indicative of threat activity.
• Manage small client engagements, lead internal teams, and provide regular project status updates and findings to clients.
• Produce high-quality written and verbal reports, presentations, and recommendations for key stakeholders, including customer management, regulators, and legal counsel.
• Demonstrate industry thought leadership through blog posts, CrowdCasts, and public speaking events.

Requirements

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

• A strong understanding of one or more of the following cloud platforms: Azure, M365, AWS, GCP, or OCI, including identity, architecture, security, and logging.
• Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and the ability to work with large data sets (up to terabytes).
• 3-5 years of hands-on threat hunting experience in cloud and/or on-premises environments.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to effectively communicate executive and/or detailed findings to clients.

Company Information

As a global leader in cybersecurity, CrowdStrike protects the people, processes, and technologies that drive modern organizations. Since 2011, our mission has been to stop breaches, and 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 seeking 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.