[Hiring] Senior Threat Response Specialist @CrowdStrike

Role Description

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Threat Response Specialist to join our Falcon Complete Managed Detection and Response (MDR) team within its Security Engineering organization. The successful candidate will focus on enabling and supporting our security analysts with specialized knowledge across the spectrum of Falcon Complete support modules. As a Senior Threat Response Specialist, you will play a crucial role in enhancing our detection and response capabilities, providing expert guidance on current and emerging security issues, and ensuring our team is equipped to handle threats effectively.

What You'll Do

• Emerging Threat Response: Stay up to date on emerging threats and threat actors. Contribute to initiatives to proactively identify, assess, and mitigate new and evolving threat campaigns. Collaborate with CrowdStrike threat intelligence teams to integrate the latest threat data into the Falcon Complete threat response program.
• Threat Detection Enablement: Use threat research to fuel the detection engineering team for developing and fine-tuning detection mechanisms on Endpoint, Identity, Cloud, and supported NG-SIEM integrations.
• Expert Support: Serve as the go-to expert on emerging threats facing the Falcon Complete team. Collaborate with security analysts during incident investigations into novel threats, providing expert insight and threat knowledge across Endpoint, Identity, Cloud, and supported NG-SIEM technologies.
• Knowledge Sharing: Educate and advise security analysts, detection engineers, intelligence analysts, and automation/AI engineers on emerging and topical threats, security solution best practices, and effective response techniques.
• Knowledge Base Development: Contribute to efforts to enhance the organizational knowledge base to support Managed Detection and Response. Establish and maintain comprehensive response knowledge artifacts across various security domains and ensure that these are up-to-date with the latest security threats and technological advancements. Collaborate with other teams within the Falcon Complete Security Engineering organization to ensure these are delivered to security analysts in the most effective way possible.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in a response or research focused security role, with at least 3 years focused on supporting Incident Response, security operations or MDR teams.
• Experience conducting or managing incident response for organizations, investigating targeted threats such as the Advanced Persistent Threat, Organized Crime, and Hacktivists.
• Experience performing threat research to identify and cluster campaigns and emerging threats.
• Strong understanding of targeted attacks and able to create customized tactical and strategic remediation plans for compromised organizations.
• Significant experience utilizing cyber threat intelligence in a security operations environment.
• Deep understanding of how attack vectors manifest in EDR and SIEM telemetry/logs and how to investigate them.
• Knowledge of automation tools and scripting languages (e.g., Python, PowerShell).
• Experience using AI and automation tooling in an operational and intelligence capacity.

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.