Platform Professional Services, Sr. Analyst (Remote)

CrowdStrike; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market-leading compensation

Equity awards

Wellness programs

Vacation & holidays

Parental/adoption leaves

Professional development

Employee networks

Creative office culture

Job summary

CrowdStrike is seeking a highly motivated Senior Analyst for Platform Professional Services to help protect customers by detecting, analyzing, and remediating incidents across diverse environments.

You’ll leverage the Falcon platform and collaborate with clients to optimize configurations, detect threats, and drive effective responses. This role emphasizes leadership, communication, and security automation.

Qualifications

• Experience in SOC, malware analysis or incident response.
• Ability to conduct or manage incident response for targeted threats.
• Experience with forensic analysis tools in IR investigations.
• Understanding of countermeasures, remediation, and system internals.

Responsibilities

• Exercise incident handling and remediation across Windows, Mac, Linux.
• Perform malware analysis across customer environments with evolving threats.
• Develop and improve incident detection processes and countermeasures.
• Produce high-quality communications to customers.
• Develop and implement security content across CrowdStrike modules.
• Demonstrate thought leadership via blog posts, CrowdCasts, events.
• Provide ongoing feedback for operational collateral and capabilities.
• Offer consulting support for onboarding CrowdStrike Falcon modules.

Skills

SOC experience

Incident Handling

Forensic Analysis

Systems Administration

Network Forensics

Malware Analysis

Incident Remediation

Networking/Engineering

Programming/Scripting

AI in security

Education

BA/BS in Computer Science or related field

DFIR certifications are a plus

Tools

EDR

SIEM

Job description

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:

CrowdStrike is looking for highly motivated, self-driven, technical senior analysts dedicated to making a difference in global security by protecting organizations against the most advanced attackers in the world. Our Platform Professional Services team offers opportunities to expand your skill set through a wide variety of experiences detecting, analyzing, and responding to incidents.

Gold Standard is an elite team of security professionals built to help clients realize the maximum potential of the CrowdStrike Falcon platform. Through their engagements, the team drives optimal configurations of the platform and eliminates risk through detection triage and remediation. Through the power of Falcon, Platform Professional Services helps Stop Breaches.

Am I a Sr. Analyst, Platform Professional Services 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.

• Do you work with EDR, DLP, Firewall, and/or SIEM technologies or desire to?

• 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?

• Are you passionate about stopping the breach?

What You’ll Do:

• Exercise incident handling and remediation processes across Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms.

• Perform malware analysis across a variety of different customer environments full of new or emerging threats

• Develop and improve processes for incident detection and the execution of countermeasures

• Produce high-quality written and verbal communications, recommendations, and findings to customers.

• Develop and implement security content and automations across multiple CrowdStrike modules including EDR/SIEM.

• Demonstrate industry thought leadership through blog posts, CrowdCasts, and other public speaking events.

• Provide continuous feedback and solutions for operational collateral and capabilities.

• Provide consulting support in other areas of Platform Professional Services to assist clients in the onboarding and configuration of other Crowdstrike Falcon security modules.

What You’ll Need:

Successful candidates will have experience in multiple of the following areas:

• Working in a SOC, Malware Analysis or IR environment

• Incident Handling: experience conducting or managing incident response for organizations, investigating targeted threats such as the Advanced Persistent Threat, Organized Crime, and Hacktivists.

• 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 Python, PowerShell, or .NET, or the desire to learn, with experience coding in other languages such as C, C#, VB, Python, Perl, Ruby on Rails, etc

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

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.

• Desire and ability to effectively communicate with customers during ongoing security incidents.

Education:

If you have a BA or BS in Computer Science, or a degree in a related field, that’s great! If you have industry related DFIR certifications, that’s also a plus. If you have none of these - show us what you’ve got, what you’re passionate about, and why you’d be a great fit for the team.

Benefits of Working at CrowdStrike:

• Market leader in compensation and equity awards
• Comprehensive physical and mental wellness programs
• Competitive vacation and holidays for recharge
• Paid parental and adoption leaves
• Professional development opportunities for all employees regardless of level or role
• Employee Networks, geographic neighborhood groups, and volunteer opportunities to build connections
• Vibrant office culture with world class amenities
• Great Place to Work Certified across the globe

CrowdStrike is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering a culture of belonging where everyone is valued for who they are and empowered to succeed. We support veterans and individuals with disabilities through our affirmative action program.

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