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Lead complex incident response engagements, investigate advanced threats, conduct host and network forensics across Windows, macOS, and Linux, perform malware analysis, and develop remediation plans. The consultant will communicate findings to executives, regulators, legal counsel, and customers; lead teams; conduct cloud incident response; contribute industry thought leadership; apply AI technologies; and travel on short notice up to 30%.

Design, implement, and maintain scalable hybrid multi-cloud Kubernetes platforms at massive scale. Ensure high reliability, integrate open-source observability tools, provide technical direction, operate large Linux environments across cloud and data centers, handle on-call duties, and mentor junior engineers.

Lead architecture and technical strategy for a unified telemetry and observability platform spanning endpoint collection SDKs to cloud ingestion and analytics. Design high-performance, resource-constrained, crash-survivable telemetry systems across Windows, macOS, and Linux; drive data governance, privacy/PII handling, and backward-compatible platform evolution. Mentor and lead distributed engineering teams.

Lead regional ABM strategy and execution to accelerate pipeline and revenue across top accounts. Build scalable frameworks, playbooks, AI-enabled workflows, ISAC community activations, measurement frameworks, and cross-functional processes to enable consistent, high-impact field marketing at scale while partnering closely with sales and regional leaders.

Pre-sales technical lead for CrowdStrike Falcon NG-SIEM: own technical relationships through the sales cycle, demonstrate capabilities, answer technical questions, advise customers, enable expansions, gather product feedback, collaborate cross-functionally, and help define go-to-market strategy and integrations to grow NG-SIEM adoption.

Serve as the technical bridge in sales: identify customer requirements, design and demonstrate security solutions, prepare proposals/RFP responses, provide product feedback to engineering, develop technical marketing materials, and build customer and partner relationships while staying current on security trends.

Validate server hardware components and new platform designs through power, thermal, performance, firmware, and automation testing. Maintain hardware test infrastructure, document technical findings, coordinate with ODM/OEM partners, and collaborate with software teams on BIOS, kernel, and firmware optimization. The role requires expertise in server architectures, validation methodologies, Linux, Python, Bash, Redfish, IPMI, and industry standards including PCIe, NVMe, and DDR.

Lead global patent prosecution and IP strategy for CrowdStrike's cloud-native cybersecurity platform. Manage patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret programs; partner with Product and Engineering to identify inventions; oversee outside counsel, budgets, and dockets; implement and govern AI-enabled IP workflows; and advise on licensing, M&A, and IP enforcement.

Delivers strategic cybersecurity advisory engagements for management-level clients. Assesses and develops security and incident response programs, creates exercises and scenarios, identifies emerging cyber trends, and produces reports, presentations, recommendations, and findings. The consultant also contributes to thought leadership and methodology development while managing multiple projects independently and traveling to client sites up to 30% of the time.

Design, build, and maintain distributed cloud services to support advanced threat detection. Collaborate with security, data science, and engineering teams to integrate capabilities into the Falcon platform, ensure production reliability, and leverage AI/LLMs to improve detection and automation. Mentor peers and contribute to scalable, high-availability system architecture.