Cloud Threat Hunting Senior Consultant (Remote)

As a global leader in cybersecurity, CrowdStrike protects the people, processes and technologies that drive modern organizations. Since 2011, our mission hasn’t changed — we’re here to stop breaches, and we’ve redefined modern security with the world’s most advanced AI-native platform. Our customers span all industries, and they count on CrowdStrike to keep their businesses running, their communities safe and their lives moving forward. We’re also a mission-driven company. We cultivate a culture that gives every CrowdStriker both the flexibility and autonomy to own their careers. We’re always looking to add talented CrowdStrikers to the team who have limitless passion, a relentless focus on innovation and a fanatical commitment to our customers, our community and each other. Ready to join a mission that matters? The future of cybersecurity starts with you.

About the Role:

CrowdStrike is looking for highly motivated, self-driven, cloud threat hunters dedicated to making a difference in global security by protecting organizations against the most advanced adversaries in the world. Our CrowdStrike Professional Services team offers opportunities to expand your skill set through a wide variety of impactful consulting engagements for many of the world's leading organizations.

The Cloud Threat Hunting Senior Consultant would be responsible for conducting compromise assessments in cloud environments to identify active and historical threats, reviewing cloud control plane configurations and providing actionable recommendations to enhance the security posture of customer cloud environments.

Am I A Cloud Threat Hunting Candidate?

•  Do you find yourself interested in and keeping up with the latest Azure, M365, AWS, GCP, and/or OCI feature announcements, as well as vulnerabilities and breaches?

• Are you self-motivated and looking for an opportunity to rapidly accelerate your skills?

• Do you crave new and innovative work that actually matters to your customer?

• Do you have a technical Information Security background that you’re not fully utilizing?

• Are you capable of operating as an individual contributor and occasionally leading teams and interacting with customers?

• Do you love working around like-minded, smart people who you can learn from and mentor on a daily basis?

What You’ll Do:

• Leverage analytics, statistical analysis, and threat intelligence to analyze logs from cloud platforms to identify historical and active threats.

• Review security configurations in cloud environments, correlate discrete data points, and identify cloud control plane configurations associated with threat activity.

• Identify identity and control plane configurations that may expose cloud environments to threats and unauthorized access.

• Write queries and simple scripts to extract data of interest, pivot on initial findings, correlate data across multiple sources, and identify outliers that may be indicative of threat activity.

• Manage small client engagements, lead internal teams, and provide regular status updates to clients regarding project status and findings.

• 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.

What You’ll Need:

Successful candidates will have experience in one or more of the following areas:

• A strong understanding of one or more of the following cloud platforms: Azure, M365, AWS, GCP, or OCI, including identity, architecture, security, and logging.

• Strong analytical skills, attention to details, and ability to work with large data sets up to terabytes in size.

• 3-5 years of hands-on threat hunting experience in cloud and/or on-premises environments. 

• Excellent communication skills, including a strong ability to communicate executive and/or detailed level findings to clients; ability to effectively communicate tasks, guidance, and methodology with internal teams.

Experience/training in the topics below is beneficial but not essential for consideration:

• Cloud Operations: familiarity with modern cloud workloads - DevOps, CICD pipelines, contain