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 with leading global organizations. You will be responsible for conducting compromise assessments in cloud environments, identifying active and historical threats, reviewing cloud control plane configurations, and providing actionable recommendations to enhance customer security postures.

About the Role

The Cloud Threat Hunting Senior Consultant will leverage analytics, statistical analysis, and threat intelligence to analyze cloud platform logs, identify threats, and review security configurations. You will identify identity and control plane configurations that may expose cloud environments to threats and unauthorized access. This role involves writing queries and scripts to extract and correlate data, managing client engagements, leading internal teams, and communicating findings to stakeholders. You will also have opportunities to demonstrate industry thought leadership.

Am I a Cloud Threat Hunting Candidate?

• Are you interested in and keeping up with the latest Azure, M365, AWS, GCP, and/or OCI feature announcements, vulnerabilities, and breaches?
• Are you self-motivated and looking for an opportunity to rapidly accelerate your skills?
• Do you crave new and innovative work that matters to your customers?
• Do you have a technical Information Security background that you’re not fully utilizing?
• Are you capable of operating as an individual contributor and occasionally leading teams and interacting with customers?
• Do you enjoy working with smart, like-minded individuals from whom you can learn and whom you can mentor?

What You’ll Do

• Leverage analytics, statistical analysis, and threat intelligence to analyze logs from cloud platforms to identify historical and active threats.
• Review security configurations in cloud environments, correlate discrete 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 of interest, pivot on initial findings, correlate data across multiple sources, and identify outliers that may be indicative of threat activity.
• Manage small client engagements, lead internal teams, and provide regular status updates to clients regarding project status and findings.
• Produce high-quality written and verbal reports, presentations, recommendations, and findings to key stakeholders including customer management, regulators, and legal counsel.
• Demonstrate industry thought leadership through blog posts, CrowdCasts, and other public speaking events.

What You’ll Need

• 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 in size.
• 3-5 years of hands-on threat hunting experience in cloud and/or on-premises environments.
• Excellent communication skills, including a strong ability to communicate executive and/or detailed level findings to clients.

Company Information

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 count 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. Ready to join a mission that matters? The future of cybersecurity starts with you.