CrowdStrike is hiring a Business Resilience Specialist - Exercises & Validation to join our Business Resilience department. You will be responsible for designing, coordinating, and evaluating exercises to validate our business continuity and crisis response capabilities, driving continuous improvement across the organization.
What You'll Do
- Plan, design, and deliver business continuity and crisis response exercises in consultation with the Business Resilience management team.
- Independently manage and execute a defined subset of assigned exercises, owning the end-to-end lifecycle from planning through facilitation, evaluation, and corrective action tracking.
- Design and facilitate exercises to validate plans, procedures, decision-making, and escalation processes.
- Develop realistic, risk-aligned exercise scenarios appropriate to organizational maturity and resilience objectives.
- Ensure exercise scenarios demonstrate increasing complexity and maturity over time.
- Execute multiple exercises in parallel with minimal oversight while maintaining consistency and quality.
- Capture observations and lessons learned and develop after-action reports (AARs).
- Track corrective actions and partner with stakeholders to drive remediation and continuous improvement.
- Support planning and conduct of disaster recovery tests and exercises, including test reporting and corrective action identification.
- Support incident team activations.
- Support continuous improvement of the company’s resilience posture.
- Partner closely with other teams in support of risk/resilience planning, including Information Security, Governance/Risk/Compliance, and Enterprise Risk Management.
What We're Looking For
- 5+ years of experience independently owning and delivering business continuity, crisis response, and cyber security exercises.
- Demonstrated ability to scale an exercise program, including repeatable processes, templates, and metrics.
- Proven track record of operating with autonomy while partnering effectively with cross-functional stakeholders.
- Excellent problem solving, critical thinking, and analytical skills with the ability to communicate concepts to technical as well as non-technical audiences.
- Effective written and oral communication skills, including experience developing and delivering briefings to top management.
- Strong organizational, multi-tasking, and project management skills.
- Experience with supporting crisis management events (public or private sector).
- Ability to work an on call schedule including nights and weekends during crisis events.
- Bachelor’s degree in Risk/Resilience or related fields, Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience.
Nice to Have
- Relevant certification in one or more business continuity, risk, or resilience disciplines (e.g., ABCP, CBCP, CBCI, MBCI, BCCE, CISSP).
- Technology sector experience, particularly Cloud native.
- Experience with data analytics tools (e.g., Tableau) and Business Continuity software.
- Experience with Disaster Recovery testing / Awareness of chaos engineering testing.
- Masters degree in risk/resilience discipline may be substituted for equivalent years of experience.
Technical Stack
- Data analytics tools (e.g., Tableau)
- Business Continuity software
Team & Environment
This role supports CrowdStrike’s Business Resilience (BR) department within the Resilience Organization.
Benefits & Compensation
- 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.
- Compensation: For US: $86,000 - $135,000 per year. For Canada: $95,000 - $125,000 CAD per year. + equity: Eligibility for equity grants.
Work Mode
This is a remote position open to candidates in the US and Canada.
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.
