Truist Financial

Associate Security Engineer - CrowdStrike Falcon

Truist Financial$70K — $95K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
  • 3+ years in security engineering or related cybersecurity roles.
  • Knowledge of cybersecurity principles and concepts.
  • Familiarity with software development lifecycle security practices.
  • Experience in managing information security technologies.

Responsibilities

  • Administer and maintain CrowdStrike Falcon sensors across enterprise environments.
  • Engineer and optimize endpoint security policies.
  • Monitor and remediate sensor health and coverage gaps.
  • Configure and tune detection policies to enhance detection accuracy.
  • Integrate CrowdStrike with SIEM systems for telemetry correlation.
  • Manage role-based access control and API integrations for CrowdStrike.
  • Conduct health checks and policy reviews to adapt to new threats.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Life insurance and disability coverage.
  • 401(k) plan with employer contributions.
  • At least 10 days of vacation and sick leave per year.
  • Paid holidays and potential participation in pension plans.
Full Job Description

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Regular or Temporary:

Regular

Language Fluency:  English (Required)

Work Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Please review the following job description:

The Cybersecurity Engineer provides strategic and hands-on leadership for enterprise Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), endpoint protection, and cloud workload security capabilities across the organization. This role designs, administers, and optimizes EDR platforms—including CrowdStrike Falcon as a primary solution—to deliver effective threat prevention, detection, investigation, and response across endpoints and workloads. Acting as an EDR platform administrator, the engineer is responsible for sensor deployment, policy configuration, access management, alert tuning, and operational health of endpoint security tooling. The role drives consistent threat hunting and incident response practices, partners with security operations and infrastructure teams to reduce endpoint risk and aligns endpoint security engineering initiatives with organizational risk and business objectives. The position supports teams responsible for endpoint security engineering, detection, content optimization, vulnerability reduction, and cloud workload protection.

For this opportunity, Truist will not sponsor an applicant for work visa status or employment authorization, nor will we offer any immigration-related support for this position (including, but not limited to H-1B, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, F-1 CPT, J-1, TN-1 or TN-2, E-3, O-1, or future sponsorship for U.S. lawful permanent residence status.)

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The followingis a summary of the essential functions for this job. Other duties may be performed, both major and minor, which are not mentioned below. Specific activities may change from time to time.

CrowdStrike Falcon

  • Administer, deploy, and maintain CrowdStrike Falcon sensors across enterprise endpoints, servers, virtual machines, and cloud workloads.

  • Engineer and optimize Falcon policies, including Prevention, EDR/XDR, Device Control, Firewall, USB, Identity Protection, and Zero Trust profiles.

  • Monitor sensor health, agent versioning, coverage gaps, and deployment failures; coordinate remediation with platform and endpoint teams.

  • Configure and tune custom IOAs, detection policies, and rule exceptions to reduce false positives and strengthen detection fidelity.

  • Integrate CrowdStrike with SIEM/XDR platforms to ensure complete telemetry ingestion and correlation.

  • Administer rolebased access control (RBAC), API keys, integrations, and logging pipelines for CrowdStrike Falcon.

  • Perform platform health checks, configuration audits, and periodic policy reviews to align with evolving threat landscapes.

Qualifications
Required Qualifications
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

  • Bachelor27s degree or equivalent education, training, and work-related experience.

  • Minimum of 3 years of experience in security engineering or related cybersecurity roles.

  • Developing knowledge in cybersecurity principles, theories, and concepts.

  • Experience in software development lifecycle security practices.

  • Proficiency in implementing and managing information security technologies.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Bachelor27s degree and six years of experience or an equivalent combination of education and work experience

  • Banking or financial services experience

  • Demonstrated experience engineering, administering, or supporting Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) platforms in an enterprise environment

  • Strong working knowledge of endpoint threat detection, investigation, and response techniques across Windows, macOS, and Linux systems

  • Handson experience administering EDR tooling, including policy configuration, agent deployment, access control, alert tuning, and platform health monitoring

  • Experience with CrowdStrike Falcon or comparable EDR solutions (e.g., Defender for Endpoint,SentinelOne), including day2dto2dday operational and administrative functions

  • Solid understanding of endpoint attack techniques and adversary behaviors, aligned with frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK

  • Proven ability to conduct threat hunting, analyze endpoint telemetry, and support incident response activities

  • Working knowledge of endpoint hardening, vulnerability reduction, and security control validation

  • Experience integrating EDR platforms with SOC workflows, SIEM tools, and incident management processes

  • Familiarity with cloud and hybrid environments and how endpoint security controls extend to cloud2dhosted workloads

  • Strong scripting or automation skills (e.g., PowerShell, Python,osquery,Logscaleor similar) to support investigation, response, or operational efficiency

  • Ability to collaborate effectively with security operations, infrastructure, and IT teams

  • Strong communication skills with the ability to document procedures, communicate risk, and explain technical concepts to varied audiences

  • For a Build Engineer:Experience creating build definitions. Experience with setting up branching approach, defining merging approach. Experience supporting configuration of automated unit testing. Experience supporting configuration of build package, providing oversight when a build is checked in into the CI server, handling build dependency impediments raised by the team. Experience managing the build process for multiple releases

  • Advanced experience with CrowdStrike Falcon modules, such as:

  • Falcon Identity Protection, Firewall Management, Cloud Security,LogScale

  • Experience configuring cloud security controls and governance at scale across Azure, AWS, and GCP.

  • Experience engineering Zero Trust architectures, including identity centric and workload centric enforcement.

General Description of Available Benefits for Eligible Employees of Truist Financial Corporation: All regular teammates (not temporary or contingent workers) working 20 hours or more per week are eligible for benefits, though eligibility for specific benefits may be determined by the division of Truist offering the position.Truist offers medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, accidental death and dismemberment, tax-preferred savings accounts, and a 401k plan to teammates. Teammates also receive no less than 10 days of vacation (prorated based on date of hire and by full-time or part-time status) during their first year of employment, along with 10 sick days (also prorated), and paid holidays. For more details on Truist27s generous benefit plans, please visit . Depending on the position and division, this job may also be eligible for Truist27s defined benefit pension plan, restricted stock units, and/or a deferred compensation plan. As you advance through the hiring process, you will also learn more about the specific benefits available for any non-temporary position for which you apply, based on full-time or part-time status, position, and division of work.

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