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About the Role:

The CrowdStrike Collections Persona Operations eCrime team is looking for a self-starting, action-oriented, and highly motivated Senior Security Researcher to join our Intelligence Team. This position will require the candidate to track and collect information related to Russian-language eCrime actor tools, tradecraft, and techniques in a wide variety of environments, to include the deep and dark web.

The mission of a Senior Security Researcher is to leverage operational tradecraft along with subject matter expertise to identify, develop and maintain unique sources of cyber threat intelligence information and enable threat analysis. It serves as an important support role to ongoing analysis of actors, adversaries, geopolitical developments, and transnational issues, and is instrumental in providing unique insight into finished Intelligence products used by CrowdStrike customers and stakeholders.

The successful candidate will be an operational security (OPSEC)-savvy, detail-oriented problem solver, and have substantial experience driving concurrent projects and issues to completion with minimal direction.

Highly qualified candidates will be a subject matter expert on Russian/Eastern-European eCrime cyber threat actors, have significant experience conducting advanced engagement and research pertaining to Russian/Eastern-European eCrime activity, possess a solid understanding of threat intelligence, have strong open source (OSINT) research skills, and be comfortable with internal and cross-team collaboration.

What You'll Do:

• Collect unique, relevant actionable, and timely information to answer established standing and ad hoc requirements related to Russian/Eastern-European eCrime actors.

• Leverage advanced engagement skills and OSINT tradecraft to follow up on leads and identify Russian/Eastern-European eCrime threat actors and track them in various online communities.

• Identify current and emerging cyber threats and trends pertaining to Russian/Eastern-European eCrime, including technical information.

• Create consistently clear, highly-contextualised internal reports of collected information in a way that enables robust analysis.

• Collaborate with teams producing analytical reports and threat estimates pertaining to Russian/Eastern-European eCrime topics.

• Employ secure virtual operational tradecraft methods and practices.

What You'll Need:

• Extensive experience navigating a wide variety of cyber threat actor environments, to include social media, hidden services, and forums.

• In-depth familiarity with a wide variety of Russian-language eCrime groups.

• Practical knowledge of technical terminology, tools, and tactics employed by eCrime actors, particularly those used by Russian-language eCrime actors.

• Ability to perform comprehensive direct engagement and OSINT investigations using advanced Russian-language skills.

• Ability to adapt quickly to changing environments and identify creative solutions to difficult problems and scenarios with persistence. Tenacity is key.

• Ability to work as part of a team as well as independently and proactively.

• Ability to work effectively under tight deadlines with minimal guidance.

• Excellent attention to detail.

Bonus Points:

• Understanding of the current geopolitical and transnational events and issues pertaining to Russian/Eastern-European eCrime.

• Additional background in Russian/Eastern European geopolitical issues and language capabilities including, but not limited to, Russian and Ukrainian.

• Prior intelligence community, human intelligence (HUMINT), or cyber threat intelligence background highly preferred. Practical experience with virtual HUMINT is highly desirable.

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Benefits of Working at CrowdStrike:

• Remote-first culture

• Market leader in compensation and equity awards with option to participate in ESPP in eligible countries

• Competitive vacation and flexible working arrangements

• Physical and mental wellness programs 

• Paid parental leave, including adoption 

• A variety of professional development and mentorship opportunities

• Access to CrowdStrike University, LinkedIn Learning and Jhanna

• Offices with stocked kitchens when you need to fuel innovation and collaboration

• Birthday time-off in your local country

• Work with people who are passionate in our mission and Great Place to Work certified across the globe