Senior CAO Elite Analyst II

Role Description

CrowdStrike’s Counter Adversary Operations (CAO) Elite is looking for a highly motivated, self-driven, detailed-oriented, and experienced Senior Analyst dedicated to making a difference in global security by protecting organizations against the most advanced attackers in the world.

• This role demands a solutions-oriented mindset, as you'll be expected to go above and beyond for this customer by driving innovative outcomes.
• Collaborate across multiple CrowdStrike teams to craft creative solutions, ensuring we exceed customer expectations and deliver exceptional value.
• Leverage CrowdStrike CAO's extensive resources to provide advanced threat hunting expertise and intelligence analysis to safeguard our customers' environments.
• Develop a trusted partnership by helping your customer identify and operationalize timely, actionable, and relevant threat intelligence and threat hunt findings.
• This position offers exceptional growth opportunities, blending technical mastery with strategic advisory services, all powered by CrowdStrike's world-class intelligence and hunting capabilities.
• After a period of learning our custom-built tool suite, workflows, and methodologies, you will join other CAO Elite Analysts protecting our customer's networks by performing tailored threat hunting and customer specific threat intelligence operations, including:
• Executing sophisticated threat hunting operations.
• Providing high value, actionable, threat intelligence aligned to the customer's requirements using your expertise and knowledge of the threat landscape.
• Delivering high-impact briefings and recommendations spanning threat hunting, dark web, and intelligence information relevant to your customer.
• Responding to customers’ ad hoc requests for information and support.
• Building lasting partnerships with customers.
• As you grow in the role you will have opportunities to undertake research, improve our threat hunting service, develop specialized intelligence knowledge, and work with other CrowdStrike teams across a broad range of topics and projects.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in two (or more) of the following areas:
• Incident response or security operations
• Threat hunting
• Cyber Threat intelligence
• Dark web monitoring
• Exemplary organizational skills with the ability to communicate both executive and detailed level findings to clients.
• Embodies our core value of being "Fanatical about the customer" by implementing solution-oriented approaches that transform challenges into positive security outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively within a customer-focused team environment.
• A background in presenting, briefing, and delivering reports to stakeholders ranging from individual contributors to executives.
• Experience conducting threat hunting or managing incident response for organizations.
• Knowledge of cyber threat intelligence terminology and data communication concepts and technologies.
• Curiosity about how AI, machine learning, and autonomous agents can enhance threat hunting, intelligence analysis, and customer outcomes.
• Technical understanding of security across various cloud environments.
• Experience validating prevention and detection capabilities against complex attacks using the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
• Ability to travel on short notice, up to 5% of the time.

Requirements

• Understanding of contemporary scripting languages.
• Familiarity with application programming interfaces (API).

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.