Strategic Advisory Services Principal Consultant

About the Role

What You'll Do

• Lead and contribute to the delivery of large and complex strategic advisory service engagements, engaging with management and executive-level individuals across a wide range of industry segments.
• Assess and develop cybersecurity and incident response programs in a proactive fashion to help mature the security posture of organizations prior to an incident.
• Develop cutting-edge scenarios to help customers exercise the full range of their response capabilities.
• Produce and ensure delivery of high-quality written and verbal reports, presentations, recommendations, and findings to customer management.
• Identify and address emerging trends in cybersecurity, drawing on both government and private sector perspectives.
• Contribute thought leadership and experiences to internal programs and teams.
• Represent CrowdStrike in external industry events and thought leadership opportunities.

What You'll Need

• Successful candidates will have at least 5-6 years of experience in one or more of the following areas:
• IT / Security Management Consulting: you ve held leadership positions and owned relationships with organisational executives as a management or technical consultant. You ve worked on a range of infosec and IT issues, including both technical cyber security (applying controls, improving architectures, etc.) and operational cyber security (organisational alignment, cyber policy review, etc.)
• Security Program Development: you ve personally contributed to the development, management, and implementation of a security program, helping organisations build, enhance, or recalibrate their plans for a successful future-leaning security program. This may include aspects of developing a SOC, CSIRT, Fusion Center, or several security initiatives that support a centralised security function.
• Security Analysis / Operations: you ve held leadership or key delivery positions in organisations or on teams that focus on organisational security (such as SOCs, IR teams, etc.). You understand cybersecurity from a practitioner standpoint, and importantly, you also understand how to consolidate and communicate results to senior leaders.
• Business Strategy / Risk Analysis: you ve helped businesses address a range of risks, including cyber risks, across their organisation. You re familiar with how organisational risk frameworks are developed, and you have experience helping organisations improve and apply their risk frameworks to address cyber risks.
• Cybersecurity Policy: you ve been responsible for developing new policies or enhancing existing policies that inform how private or government organisation performs and manages its various cyber security activities. You have played a key role in developing policies, plans, and/or playbooks focusing on cyber security activities, and have ideally been part of the process of transitioning these plans into practice within an organisation.
• Public / Government Affairs: you have significant experience helping government organisations, or entities that work closely with governments, refine cyber security priorities and communicate clearly about these priorities. You are highly experienced in working across various sets of technical and non-technical stakeholders in an organisation to develop defensible, actionable priorities and plans for improving cyber security.
• Additionally, all candidates must possess the following qualifications:
• Exceptional written and verbal communications skills, specifically in fast-paced professional environments.
• Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain positive working relationships with a wide range of customers and team members.
• Capable of completing complex tasks involving strategic analysis and development, without supervision.
• Exceptional ability to forge and grow professional relationships with clients across different industries.
• Desire to grow and expand cyber aptitude, technical awareness, and soft skills.
• Strong time management skills, including the ability to complete tasks for multiple projects simultaneously.
• Consistent positive work environment and attitude.
• Ability to travel to engage with clients, up to 30% of the time, often on less than three weeks notice.

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