Associate Security Engineer - CrowdStrike Falcon
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The Cybersecurity Engineer provides strategic and hands-on leadership for enterprise Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), endpoint protection, and cloud workload security capabilities across the organization. This role designs, administers, and optimizes EDR platforms—including CrowdStrike Falcon as a primary solution—to deliver effective threat prevention, detection, investigation, and response across endpoints and workloads. Acting as an EDR platform administrator, the engineer is responsible for sensor deployment, policy configuration, access management, alert tuning, and operational health of endpoint security tooling. The role drives consistent threat hunting and incident response practices, partners with security operations and infrastructure teams to reduce endpoint risk and aligns endpoint security engineering initiatives with organizational risk and business objectives. The position supports teams responsible for endpoint security engineering, detection, content optimization, vulnerability reduction, and cloud workload protection.For this opportunity, Truist will not sponsor an applicant for work visa status or employment authorization, nor will we offer any immigration-related support for this position (including, but not limited to H-1B, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, F-1 CPT, J-1, TN-1 or TN-2, E-3, O-1, or future sponsorship for U.S. lawful permanent residence status.)
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The following is a summary of the essential functions for this job. Other duties may be performed, both major and minor, which are not mentioned below. Specific activities may change from time to time.
CrowdStrike Falcon
Administer, deploy, and maintain CrowdStrike Falcon sensors across enterprise endpoints, servers, virtual machines, and cloud workloads.
Engineer and optimize Falcon policies, including Prevention, EDR/XDR, Device Control, Firewall, USB, Identity Protection, and Zero Trust profiles.
Monitor sensor health, agent versioning, coverage gaps, and deployment failures; coordinate remediation with platform and endpoint teams.
Configure and tune custom IOAs, detection policies, and rule exceptions to reduce false positives and strengthen detection fidelity.
Integrate CrowdStrike with SIEM/XDR platforms to ensure complete telemetry ingestion and correlation.
Administer role‑based access control (RBAC), API keys, integrations, and logging pipelines for CrowdStrike Falcon.
Perform platform health checks, configuration audits, and periodic policy reviews to align with evolving threat landscapes.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education, training, and work-related experience.
Minimum of 3 years of experience in security engineering or related cybersecurity roles.
Developing knowledge in cybersecurity principles, theories, and concepts.
Experience in software development lifecycle security practices.
Proficiency in implementing and managing information security technologies.
Preferred Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree and six years of experience or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
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