[Hiring] Regional Principal Analyst @CrowdStrike

Role Description

The Regional Principal Analyst is the most senior technical individual contributor within a Falcon Complete region, serving as the principal technical advisor to Regional Directors and their immediate leadership teams. This role provides hands-on technical leadership across multiple fireteams, supporting on complex incident response, conducting deep technical case review, identifying operations and product improvement opportunities, and driving technical quality across regional operations through various technical deliverables. The Regional Principal Analyst maintains deep, current expertise through regular hands-on engagement and collaboration in complex service delivery scenarios.

What You'll Do

• Technical Leadership:
  • Serve as the principal technical advisor to Regional Directors and Senior Leadership Team on all Falcon Complete service delivery matters.
  • Ensure technical consistency, quality standards, and best practices across regional operations.
  • Lead regional technical initiatives.
  • Coordinate with other Regional Principals to ensure global consistency and knowledge sharing.
• Technical Escalation Support:
  • Serve as a technical escalation resource for Fireteam Principal Analysts on complex or ambiguous cases, providing second opinion, additional analysis, and technical guidance, while assisting with Principal technical development.
  • Fireteam Principal Analysts retain ownership and lead of high-severity incident response; the Regional Principal supports as a technical resource, and highlights opportunities to improve the Falcon Complete service and technical excellence of the region.
  • Perform independent technical analysis when asked to validate or extend a fireteam's findings.
• Operational Excellence & Quality Assurance:
  • Conduct technical QA reviews of closed cases across fireteams against defined criteria with documented findings.
  • Identify detection gaps, false-positive patterns, and coverage opportunities from regional case data; route findings to relevant teams as improvement requests.
  • Identify opportunities for tooling, telemetry, or workflow improvements based on recurring case patterns.
  • Identify regional trends in detection patterns, threat landscape, and case quality.
  • Identify skill gaps and development opportunities across the regional analyst population.
  • Drive adoption of consistent operational standards and agentic toolsets across regional operations.
• Cross-Functional Technical Liaison:
  • Represent regional technical perspective in cross-functional initiatives with other CrowdStrike business units.
  • Work directly with Product/Engineering to surface detection coverage gaps, platform bugs, and feature requests.
  • Coordinate with OverWatch and Intelligence on regional threat trends.
  • Partner with other Regional Principal Analysts on shared technical review standards and case QA criteria.
  • Partner with Watchtower to drive detection tuning and coverage improvements based on regional intelligence.
• Thought Leadership & Market Engagement:
  • Demonstrate industry thought leadership through blog posts, CrowdCasts, conference presentations, and other speaking events as appropriate.
• Strategic Projects & Innovation:
  • Provide Technical expertise on regional projects that align with Falcon Complete mission and corporate goals.
  • Drive innovation in detection gaps, triage, remediation, and automation capabilities.
  • Collaborate with Section 3 (S3) AI Automation Team on regional automation opportunities.
  • Identify and implement efficiency improvements with measurable regional impact.
• Supervision & Autonomy:
  • Works under minimal direction with high degree of autonomy.
  • Works independently on technical matters.
  • Expected to remain hands-on.
  • Determines and pursues courses of action essential to achieving regional and corporate objectives.
  • Provides consultative guidance to Regional Directors and Senior Leadership.

Qualifications

• Expert-level experience leading and managing complex incident response investigations.
• Deep expertise in attack vectors, threat actor tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs).
• Advanced experience conducting forensic analysis across host, memory, and network artifacts.
• Advanced ability to perform static and dynamic malware analysis.
• Expert-level knowledge of Windows, Mac, and/or Linux operating systems.
• Advanced experience administering and securing enterprise network environments.
• Expert-level knowledge of network protocols and traffic analysis.
• Deep expertise with identity and access management platforms.
• Advanced experience investigating and remediating Microsoft 365 security incidents.
• Advanced proficiency querying and correlating log sources across cloud platforms.
• Proven expertise developing and executing strategic remediation plans.
• Expert-level understanding of secure network architecture.
• Experience developing scripts and automation using Python, PowerShell, or Bash.
• Experience working across various AI models, platforms, and tooling.
• BA or BS / MA or MS degree in relevant fields or equivalent experience.

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.