Incident Response Principal Consultant (remote)

CrowdStrike CrowdStrike · Enterprise · United States · Remote

This role is for a Principal Consultant in Incident Response at CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity company. The consultant will lead incident response engagements, hunt for bad actors using data, perform forensic analysis on various platforms, conduct basic malware analysis, and produce reports for stakeholders. The role requires strong technical skills in incident response, forensics, network analysis, and potentially reverse engineering or cloud incident response. While the company mentions an 'AI-native platform', the core responsibilities of this role are focused on traditional cybersecurity incident response and investigation, not on building or directly deploying AI/ML models as the primary deliverable.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead incident response engagements
  2. Develop and use new methods to hunt for bad actors across large sets of data.
  3. Work under the direction of outside counsel to conduct intrusion investigations
  4. Perform host and/or network-based forensics across Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms.
  5. Perform basic malware analysis.

Skills

Required

  • 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.
  • Communications: strong ability to communicate executive and/or detailed level findings to clients; ability to effectively communicate tasks, guidance, and methodology with internal teams
  • Capable of completing technical tasks without supervision.
  • Strong project management skills.

Nice to have

  • Desire to grow and expand both technical and soft skills.
  • Ability to foster a positive work environment and attitude.
  • Ability to travel on short notice, up to 30% of the time.
  • Demonstrate industry thought leadership through blog posts, CrowdCasts, and other public speaking events.

What the JD emphasized

  • Incident Response
  • Computer Forensic Analysis
  • Network Forensic Analysis
  • Reverse Engineering
  • Incident Remediation
  • Cloud Incident Response