CrowdStrike is looking for highly motivated, self-driven, technical analysts dedicated to making a difference in global security by protecting organizations against the most advanced attackers in the world. Our CrowdStrike virtual security operations center offers opportunities to expand your skill set through a wide variety of experiences, detecting and responding to incidents as they occur in real-time for our customers. 

This position is open to candidates in Austin, TX, Arlington, VA and Kirkland, WA.

Am I an Analyst, Endpoint Protection Team Candidate?

• Do you find yourself interested in putting your hands-on technical skills to the test in detecting, containing, and remediating incidents?

• Are you self-motivated and looking for an opportunity to rapidly accelerate your skills?

• Do you crave new and innovative work that actually matters to your customer?

• Do you have an Incident Response or Information Security background that you’re not fully utilizing?

• Are you capable of leading teams and interacting well with customers?

• Do you love working around like-minded, smart people who you can learn from and mentor on a daily basis?

Typical Responsibilities:

• 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, 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.

• Network Forensic Analysis: knowledge of network protocols, network analysis tools, and 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 able to create customized tactical and strategic remediation plans for compromised organizations.

• Network Operations and Architecture/Engineering: strong understanding of secure network architecture and 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 within the incident response industry.

• Ability to foster a positive work environment and attitude.

Requirements:

• Must be willing to work 4x10 schedule, including a day on the weekend.

• Must be willing to work on site. Offering a hybrid model which allows for some remote days each week after training.

• This role is only open to US citizens and Green Card holders.

Education: 

• BA or BS / MA or MS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Math, Information Security, Information Assurance, Information Security Management, Intelligence Studies, Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity Policy, or a related field. Applicants without a degree but with relevant work experience and/or training will be considered.

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