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CrowdStrike

United Kingdom - Remote; United Kingdom

Director, Incident Response ( Remote, GBR)

Posted 13 days ago

Level
Leadership
Experience
Not stated
Work style
Remote
Full-time
Area
Defence & SOC

At a glance

The role in plain English

This is a senior leadership role managing incident response consulting teams for a global cybersecurity provider. The position suits experienced professionals with a background in incident response, consulting, and team leadership, especially those comfortable with remote work and client-facing situations. Day-to-day work includes overseeing engagements, mentoring staff, scoping projects, and delivering reports to clients. The role also involves collaboration with sales and other regional leaders, and occasional travel within the region.

What you'll do

  • Lead and oversee consulting engagement teams
  • Perform initial triage and scoping for client objectives
  • Partner with sales to scope and win new business
  • Mentor and manage team members
  • Produce reports and recommendations for stakeholders

What they're looking for

Essential

  • Team leadership in consulting or remote environment
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills
  • Experience leading technical analysts
  • Ability to lead clients in high stress situations
  • Experience utilising AI technologies

Nice to have

  • University or college degree
  • Thought leadership in incident response industry

Core skills

  • Incident response
  • Team leadership
  • Client management
  • Report writing
  • AI technologies
  • Consulting
  • Stakeholder communication

The shape of the job

Technical depth

4/5

FoundationalSpecialist

Pace

4/5

SteadyFast-moving

Ownership

4/5

GuidedSelf-directed

Teamwork

5/5

Heads-downHighly collaborative

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  1. 01Describe your experience leading incident response teams in a consulting environment.
  2. 02How do you communicate technical findings to non-technical stakeholders?
  3. 03Give an example of using AI technologies to improve incident response processes.
  4. 04How do you manage and mentor remote teams during high-pressure engagements?

About CrowdStrike

CrowdStrike is a global cybersecurity provider offering services to protect organisations against advanced threats. The company provides consulting and incident response services to clients across various industries.

Full job descriptionAs published by CrowdStrike

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. We work on large scale distributed systems, processing almost 3 trillion events per day and this traffic is growing daily. 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 proud to work for a mission-driven company leveraging AI to transform the way we work. CrowdStrikers drive their careers through flexibility and autonomy while also being expected to contribute to a culture of responsible AI adoption, experimentation, and innovation. We use an AI-first mindset as a force multiplier to proactively and continuously accelerate execution, build expertise, uncover insights, and solve complex problems. 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 a highly motivated, self-driven, Consulting Services Director for the Professional Services Consulting team, dedicated to making a difference in global security by protecting organizations against the most advanced attackers in the world. Our CrowdStrike Services team offers opportunities to expand your skill set through a wide variety of engagements including front page incident response investigations for organizations you’ll find on the annual Fortune 500 list.

  • Are you capable of leading teams and interacting with customers entangled in complicated and difficult situations?
  • Do you find yourself interested in and keeping up with the latest 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 an Incident Response or Information Security background that you’re not fully utilizing?
  • Do you love working around like-minded, smart people who you can learn from and mentor on a daily basis?
  • Can you assess complicated problems and address them in a strategic fashion?

What You'll Do:

  • Lead consulting engagement teams and provide high-level oversight on consulting engagements engagements
  • Perform initial triage and scoping for prospective clients to understand the client objectives and level of effort involved to complete objectives
  • Partner with Sales Team to scope and win new business
  • Manage and mentor team members to help expand skill sets and maximize performance
  • Produce high-quality written and verbal reports, presentations, recommendations, and findings to key stakeholders including customer management, regulators, and legal counsel
  • Deliver high quality services constantly seeking feedback from customers, partners and CrowdStrike team members to improve offerings
  • Partner with other Services regional leaders to staff and schedule consulting engagements
  • Demonstrate industry thought leadership through blog posts, CrowdCasts, and other public speaking events

What You'll Need:

  • University/College degree or equivalent experience.
  • Team leadership experience in a matrixed consulting remote environment
  • Excellent communication, interpersonal and collaborative skills, strong business acumen and ability to exercise good judgment and discretion and maintain confidentiality
  • A proven leader, with the ability to inspire, lead, and mentor a high performing organization, with the ability to establish strong cross functional relationships to work collaboratively
  • Capable of leading teams of highly motivated technical analysts
  • Ability to communicate highly technical information to non-technical people
  • Ability to lead clients through high stress situations
  • Contributing thought leader within the incident response industry
  • Ability to foster a positive work environment and attitude
  • Ability to travel in region on short notice, up to 30% of the time
  • Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes.

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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

CrowdStrike is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering a culture of belonging where everyone is valued for who they are and empowered to succeed. We support veterans and individuals with disabilities through our affirmative action program.

CrowdStrike is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants for employment. The Company does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, creed, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy or pregnancy-related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical disability (including HIV and AIDS), mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, membership or activity in a local human rights commission, status with regard to public assistance, or any other characteristic protected by law. We base all employment decisions--including recruitment, selection, training, compensation, benefits, discipline, promotions, transfers, lay-offs, return from lay-off, terminations and social/recreational programs--on valid job requirements.

If you need assistance accessing or reviewing the information on this website or need help submitting an application for employment or requesting an accommodation, please contact us at recruiting@crowdstrike.com for further assistance.

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