About the Role
The Regional Principal Analyst is the most senior technical individual contributor within a Falcon Complete region, serving as the principal technical advisor to Regional Directors and their immediate leadership teams. This role provides hands-on technical leadership across multiple fireteams, supporting on complex incident response, conducting deep technical case review, identifying operations and product improvement opportunities, and driving technical quality across regional operations through various technical deliverables. The Regional Principal Analyst maintains deep, current expertise through regular hands-on engagement, and collaboration in complex service delivery scenarios.
What You'll Do
Technical Leadership:
•Serve as the principal technical advisor to Regional Directors and Senior Leadership Team on all Falcon Complete service delivery matters
•Ensure technical consistency, quality standards, and best practices across regional operations
•Lead regional technical initiatives
•Coordinate with other Regional Principals to ensure global consistency and knowledge sharing
Technical Escalation Support:
•Serve as a technical escalation resource for Fireteam Principal Analysts on complex or ambiguous cases, providing second opinion, additional analysis, and technical guidance, while assisting with Principal technical development
•Fireteam Principal Analysts retain ownership and lead of high-severity incident response; the Regional Principal supports as a technical resource, and highlights opportunities to improve the Falcon Complete service and technical excellence of the region
•Perform independent technical analysis when asked to validate or extend a fireteam's findings
Operational Excellence & Quality Assurance:
•Conduct technical QA reviews of closed cases across fireteams against defined criteria with documented findings
•Identify detection gaps, false-positive patterns, and coverage opportunities from regional case data; route findings to relevant teams as improvement requests
•Identify opportunities for tooling, telemetry, or workflow improvements based on recurring case patterns
•Identify regional trends in detection patterns, threat landscape, and case quality
•Identify skill gaps and development opportunities across the regional analyst population
•Drive adoption of consistent operational standards and agentic toolsets across regional operations
Cross-Functional Technical Liaison:
•Represent regional technical perspective in cross-functional initiatives with other CrowdStrike business units
•Work directly with Product/Engineering to surface detection coverage gaps, platform bugs, and feature requests
•Coordinate with OverWatch and Intelligence on regional threat trends
•Partner with other Regional Principal Analysts on shared technical review standards and case QA criteria
•Partner with Watchtower to drive detection tuning and coverage improvements based on regional intelligence
Thought Leadership & Market Engagement:
•Demonstrate industry thought leadership through blog posts, CrowdCasts, conference presentations, and other speaking events as appropriate
Strategic Projects & Innovation:
•Provide technical expertise on regional projects that align with Falcon Complete mission and corporate goals
•Drive innovation in detection gaps, triage, remediation, and automation capabilities
•Collaborate with Section 3 (S3) AI Automation Team on regional automation opportunities
•Identify and implement efficiency improvements with measurable regional impact
Supervision & Autonomy:
•Works under minimal direction with high degree of autonomy
•Works independently on technical matters
•Expected to remain hands-on
•Determines and pursues courses of action essential to achieving regional and corporate objectives
•Provides consultative guidance to Regional Directors and Senior Leadership
What You'll Need
Successful candidates will have extensive experience in multiple of the following areas:
•Incident Handling: expert-level experience leading and managing complex incident response investigations, including the ability to take ownership of high-severity, multi-host, and multi-customer incidents from triage through remediation. Proven experience investigating host/user compromises, organized crime groups, and sophisticated nation-state adversaries.
•Threat Landscape Awareness: deep expertise in attack vectors, threat actor tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), with advanced proficiency applying and extending MITRE ATT&CK to drive detection improvements and investigation strategies.
•Computer Forensic Analysis: advanced experience conducting forensic analysis across host, memory, and network artifacts using a broad toolkit to determine full scope and root cause of compromise.
•Malware Analysis: advanced ability to perform static and dynamic malware analysis, including reverse engineering concepts and behavioral analysis.
•Operating System Fundamentals: expert-level knowledge of Windows, Mac, and/or Linux operating systems, with particular depth in at least one of these areas.
•Systems Administration: advanced experience administering and securing enterprise network environments, with strong knowledge of IT architecture, authentication systems, and common attack paths across infrastructure.
•Network Analysis Fundamentals: expert-level knowledge of network protocols and traffic analysis, with the ability to identify attack patterns, lateral movement, and exfiltration in network data.
•Identity Platform Awareness: deep expertise with identity and access management platforms such as Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, and Active Directory, including advanced knowledge of identity-based attack techniques and credential abuse patterns.
•Email Security Awareness: advanced experience investigating and remediating Microsoft 365 security incidents, including sophisticated business email compromise (BEC) and adversary-in-the-middle (AITM) attack chains.
•Third-Party Log Analysis: advanced proficiency querying and correlating log sources across cloud platforms, network devices, identity providers, and email platforms within a SIEM environment to build detection logic and drive complex investigations.
•Incident Remediation: proven expertise developing and executing strategic and surgical remediation plans for compromised environments, including complex multi-host and multi-platform scenarios with third-party containment coordination.
•Network Operations and Architecture/Engineering: expert-level understanding of secure network architecture with advanced hands-on experience navigating and troubleshooting enterprise network environments to support complex incident investigations.
•Programming/Scripting: experience developing scripts and automation using Python, PowerShell, or Bash to build investigative tooling, automate remediation workflows, and expand detection and response capabilities.
•AI Platforms: Experience working across various AI models, platforms, and tooling including MCP servers and agentic frameworks. Applies AI broadly across security operations — from investigation acceleration and workflow automation to internal capability development, prompt engineering, and driving AI adoption and maturity across the team.
•Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes.
Education
BA or BS / MA or MS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Math, Information Security, Information Assurance, Information Security Management, Intelligence Studies, Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity Policy, or a related field. Applicants without a degree but with relevant work experience and/or training will be considered.
This role may require the candidate to periodically undergo and pass alcohol and/or drug test(s) during the course of employment.
Benefits of Working at CrowdStrike
•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
The base salary range for this position for all U.S. candidates is $145,000 - $220,000 per year, with eligibility for bonuses, equity grants and a comprehensive benefits package that includes health insurance, 401k and paid time off.
