Manager, OverWatch (West, Remote)
About the Role:
The CrowdStrike OverWatch Elite team is seeking a motivated individual with strong technical acumen and customer centric personality to act as regional (US-WEST) team manager. OverWatch Elite analysts enhance the managed threat hunting service provided by Falcon OverWatch by collaborating with clients to deliver a tailored threat hunting and high-touch consultative experience.
As an OverWatch Manager, you will take responsibility for a regional team of OverWatch Elite analysts, resolve personnel management issues, prioritize tasks, coordinate daily operations, and mentor analysts.
What You'll Do:
Ensure proper resolution of client questions/concerns.
Participate in multi-regional leadership meetings (sometimes outside of normal business hours).
Support, coach, mentor, and motivate OverWatch Elite analysts in-region.
Evaluate employee performance and assist Sr. Manager in identifying hiring and training needs.
Anticipate problems/issues and take a proactive approach to minimizing impact by finding solutions.
Track team performance, goals, objectives, projects, and ensure KPIs are met.
Coordinate daily operations within the regional OverWatch Elite team.
Assist cross-regional OverWatch Elite teams as needed.
Prioritize and respond to important projects/tasks.
Assist analysts with conducting threat hunting, intrusion analysis, client meetings as needed.
Identify bottlenecks, roadblocks, problems, and find well thought out solutions.
Conducting threat hunting, intrusion analysis and client environmental reviews, to enable the detection and disruption of threats in customer Falcon environments as needed.
Deliver insight into industry attack trends and defenses by developing and maintaining deep awareness and understanding of evolving threats, adversaries and intrusion trends.
Development and delivery of impactful threat briefings, reporting and presentations to customers by providing actionable intelligence and coaching.
Adapt communication styles to different audiences/situations and conduct regular team/1-on-1 meetings with direct reports.
What You’ll Need:
You are proficient in English, with strong written and verbal communication skills.
Proven ability to convey extremely technical concepts to both technical and executive level stakeholders.
Prior experience managing and leading high performing technical teams.
Demonstrable experience of working in a client-facing Cyber Security role.
You have a strong understanding of current and emerging threats and ability to demonstrate practical knowledge of security research and threat hunting concepts and methodologies.
You enjoy working with clients in a consultative capacity.
Ability to work collaborate with out-of-region teams (at times) outside normal business hours.
Ability to to work in an on-call capacity if needed.
Bonus Points:
Two (2) or more years of significant client-facing relationship management experience
Prior cyber experience in two (2) or more of the following:
Threat response
Intrusion analysis
Endpoint incident response (MAC, Linux, and/or Windows)
Malware analysis
Penetration testing
Threat hunting
Information security consulting
Intelligence
Knowledge of operating systems other than Windows (Linux, Unix, Mac)
Experience with big-data processing tools such as Splunk, Humio, ELK etc.
Bachelor’s degree in information security or related discipline or the equivalent of six (6) years or more in the industry as job experience
Experience with automation, JIRA, or project management concepts
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