Senior Incident Response Lead - Remote

CrowdStrike Inc.; City of Albany (NY); Remote; USD 115,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid parental leave

Professional development

Employee networks

Vibrant culture

Job summary

CrowdStrike is seeking a highly motivated Senior Consultant to join our Services team, focusing on incident response for Fortune 100 clients. You will lead engagements, perform host and network forensics across multiple platforms, and develop new hunting methods to detect threats in large data sets.

Ideal candidates have IR leadership experience, malware analysis abilities, and strong communications skills, with travel up to 30%.

Qualifications

• Leadership experience in a matrixed consulting environment.
• Incident Response investigations for organizations and targeted threats.
• Experience with forensic analysis tools in incident response.
• Knowledge of network protocols and network log analysis.
• Reverse engineering capability to assess malware behavior.
• Remediation planning for targeted attacks.
• Strong understanding of secure network architecture.
• Experience with AWS/Azure/GCP incident response methods.
• Ability to communicate findings to clients and internal teams.
• Experience applying AI to improve decision-making and workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead incident response engagements and mentor teams.
• Develop methods to hunt threats across large data sets.
• Coordinate investigations with external counsel as needed.
• Perform host/network forensics on Windows, Mac, Linux.
• Conduct basic malware analysis.
• Produce high-quality reports and presentations for stakeholders.

Skills

Team leadership

Incident Response

Computer Forensic Analysis

Network Forensic Analysis

Reverse Engineering

Incident Remediation

Network Operations

Cloud Incident Response

Communications

AI technologies in Security

Education

BA/BS or MA/MS in CS/IS/Security

Tools

Bro/Zeek

Suricata

Job description

CrowdStrike is seeking a highly motivated Senior Consultant to join our Services team, focusing on incident response for Fortune 100 clients. You will lead engagements, perform host and network forensics across multiple platforms, and develop new hunting methods to detect threats in large data sets.

Ideal candidates have IR leadership experience, malware analysis abilities, and strong communications skills, with travel up to 30%.