Senior Incident Response Leader — Remote

CrowdStrike Inc.; Trenton (NJ); Remote; USD 140,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Wellness programs

Generous paid time off

Parental leave

Professional development

Job summary

CrowdStrike, Inc. is seeking an Incident Response Manager to lead complex investigations, triage client objectives, and coordinate with executives on forensics and malware analysis.

You will mentor junior staff, develop new threat-hunting methods, and work with outside counsel on intrusions. The role requires deep incident response, forensic and network analysis skills across Windows, Mac, and Linux, with cloud incident response experience and AI-enabled decision support.

Qualifications

• Team leadership experience in a matrixed consulting environment.
• Incident Response: experience conducting or managing incident response investigations 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.
• Network Forensic Analysis: strong knowledge of network protocols, network analysis tools like Bro/Zeek or Suricata, and ability to perform analysis of associated network logs.
• Reverse Engineering: ability to understand the capabilities of static and dynamic malware analysis.
• 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.
• Cloud Incident Response: knowledge in any of the following areas: AWS, Azure, GCP incident response methodologies.
• Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead incident response engagements
• Perform initial triage and scoping for prospective clients to understand the client objectives and level of effort involved to complete objectives
• Effectively communicate with executives on the topics of forensics and malware analysis
• Develop and use new methods to hunt for bad actors across large sets of data
• Work under the direction of outside counsel to conduct intrusion investigations
• Coach and mentor junior analysts on performing host and/or network-based forensics across Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms
• Provide strategic, applicable, and feasible recommendations to help mature the security posture of organizations during and after an incident
• Produce high-quality written and verbal reports, presentations, recommendations, and findings to key stakeholders including customer management, regulators, and legal counsel
• Demonstrate industry thought leadership through blog posts, CrowdCasts, and other public speaking events

Skills

Team leadership

Incident response

Forensic analysis

Network forensics

Reverse engineering

Remediation planning

Cloud incident response

AI in security

Job description

CrowdStrike, Inc. is seeking an Incident Response Manager to lead complex investigations, triage client objectives, and coordinate with executives on forensics and malware analysis.

You will mentor junior staff, develop new threat-hunting methods, and work with outside counsel on intrusions. The role requires deep incident response, forensic and network analysis skills across Windows, Mac, and Linux, with cloud incident response experience and AI-enabled decision support.