[Hiring] Associate Analyst @CrowdStrike

Role Description

CrowdStrike is looking for highly motivated, self-driven Cyber Security analysts dedicated to making a difference in global security by protecting organizations against the most advanced attackers in the world. Our CrowdStrike virtual security operations center offers opportunities to expand your skill set through a wide variety of experiences, detecting and responding to incidents as they occur in real-time for our customers.

About the Team

• Interested in putting your hands-on technical skills to the test in detecting, containing, and remediating incidents?
• Self-motivated and looking for an opportunity to rapidly accelerate your skills?
• Crave new and innovative work that actually matters to your customer?
• Have an Incident Response or Information Security background that you’re not fully utilizing?
• Capable of leading teams and interacting well with customers?
• Love working around like-minded, smart people who you can learn from and mentor on a daily basis?
• Willing and able to work your allocated shift as part of our global, follow the sun team?

The allocated shifts span either Wednesday to Saturday or Sunday to Wednesday for a 40-hour work week. These are slightly longer work days compared to a standard 5-day work week shift.

What You'll Do

• Exercise incident handling processes across Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms.
• Perform basic malware analysis.
• Develop and improve processes for incident detection and the execution of countermeasures.
• Produce high-quality written and verbal communications, recommendations, and findings to customer management.
• Demonstrate industry thought leadership through blog posts, CrowdCasts, and other public speaking events.
• Manage internal programs or teams.

Qualifications

• 1 - 4 years of related experience.
• 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.
• Strong verbal and communication skills of difficult technical concepts to audiences with varying levels of technical ability.

Requirements

• 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 C, C#, VB, Python, Perl, Ruby on Rails, and .NET.
• Currently located in Japan (remote within Japan will be gladly considered), unfortunately visa sponsorship is not available.
• High business level to native Japanese language skills (i.e. fluent including writing) required to communicate directly with local customers at a level that does not need peer proofreading.
• Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes.
• Australia based Japanese speakers welcome, visa sponsorship not available.

Benefits

• 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.