Sr. Intrusion Analyst, OverWatch (Remote)

As a global leader in cybersecurity, CrowdStrike protects the people, processes and technologies that drive modern organizations. Since 2011, our mission hasn’t changed — we’re here to stop breaches, and we’ve redefined modern security with the world’s most advanced AI-native platform. We work on large scale distributed systems, processing almost 3 trillion events per day and this traffic is growing daily.

Our customers span all industries, and they count on CrowdStrike to keep their businesses running, their communities safe and their lives moving forward. We're proud to work for a mission-driven company leveraging AI to transform the way we work. CrowdStrikers drive their careers through flexibility and autonomy while also being expected to contribute to a culture of responsible AI adoption, experimentation, and innovation.

We use an AI-first mindset as a force multiplier to proactively and continuously accelerate execution, build expertise, uncover insights, and solve complex problems. We’re always looking to add talented CrowdStrikers to the team who have limitless passion, a relentless focus on innovation and a fanatical commitment to our customers, our community and each other. Ready to join a mission that matters? The future of cybersecurity starts with you.

About the Role:

We are looking for a passionate cyber professional to join our rapidly growing team of intrusion analysts tasked with defending CrowdStrike customers and understanding their adversaries. As part of our remote close-knit team, you will bring with you your experience in cybersecurity to help evolve how we do threat hunting at CrowdStrike.

After a period of learning our custom-built tool suite, workflows, and methodologies you will join other OverWatch analysts protecting our customer's networks by identifying and understanding intrusions using Falcon Endpoint data and the broader CrowdStrike product suite. You will be analyzing adversary activity and communicating those findings to customers as part of our fast-paced time sensitive mission to help stop breaches.

When the pressure is off you will have time to undertake research to improve our detection capabilities, understand our adversaries, build tools, or work with other CrowdStrike teams across a broad range of topics and projects. If you are proficient in either network/host-based intrusion analysis, cloud/identity, digital forensics or cyber threat intelligence, and you want to gain fast-paced experience in dealing with eCrime threat actors, we may have a role for you!

Note, role is for our West region, requiring availability in PST.

What You’ll Do:

• Protect our customer's networks by identifying and understanding intrusions using Falcon Endpoint data and the broader CrowdStrike product suite.
• Analyze adversary activity and communicate those findings to customers as part of our fast-paced time sensitive mission to help stop breaches.
• Undertake research to improve our detection capabilities, understand our adversaries, build tools, or work with other CrowdStrike teams across a broad range of topics and projects
• Participate in active and passive threat hunting and gain fast-paced experience in dealing with threat actors

What You'll Need:

Ability to convey complex or technical concepts to various stakeholders.

Demonstrated experience in endpoint security, cybersecurity, threat intelligence, or cloud security principles.

An excellent understanding of operating systems

Experience with logging platforms such as LogScale, Splunk, or Kibana and creating queries to identify suspicious activity

Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes.

Having a good understanding of current and emerging threats and ability to demonstrate practical knowledge of security research

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or comparable work experience.

Bonus Points:

• Experience correlating investigations across third party data sources (e.g.: leveraging IAM data while analyzing an EDR alert)
• Experience investigating commonly leveraged TTPs observed across Azure, and or AWS Cloud Computing Providers
• Experience in a security operations center or similar environment tracking threat actors or responding to incidents

Being able to demonstrate experience in conventional network or host-based intrusion analysis, and identity or cloud security fundamentals.

Published research or findings at conferences or through other non-academic channels (blogs, articles, etc.)

This role may require the candidate to periodically undergo and pass alcohol and/or drug test(s) during the course of employment.