Director, Digital Operations Center

As a global leader in cybersecurity, Crowd Strike protects the people, processes and technologies that drive modern organizations. Since 2011, our mission hasn’t changed — we’re here to stop breaches, and we’ve redefined modern security with the world’s most advanced AI-native platform. We work on large scale distributed systems, processing almost 3 trillion events per day and this traffic is growing daily.

Our customers span all industries, and they count on Crowd Strike to keep their businesses running, their communities safe and their lives moving forward. We're proud to work for a mission-driven company leveraging AI to transform the way we work. Crowd Strikers drive their careers through flexibility and autonomy while also being expected to contribute to a culture of responsible AI adoption, experimentation, and innovation.

We use an AI-first mindset as a force multiplier to proactively and continuously accelerate execution, build expertise, uncover insights, and solve complex problems. We’re always looking to add talented Crowd Strikers to the team who have limitless passion, a relentless focus on innovation and a fanatical commitment to our customers, our community and each other. Ready to join a mission that matters?

The future of cybersecurity starts with you.

We are seeking an experienced Director to lead our global Digital Operations Center (DOC). This role owns the day-to-day leadership of the DOC's 24/7, multi-site team while driving the operational strategy, tooling, and staffing decisions that keep monitoring, alerting, and incident response running at scale across all regions. The Director will provide technical and operational leadership for DOC managers across all sites, serve as a senior escalation point for complex incidents, and partner with enterprise leadership on the strategic direction of incident management.

• Leadership & Strategy:
• Lead the global DOC team across all sites, setting standards, staffing, and tooling strategy aligned with the company's technology and resilience goals.
• Own and continuously improve DOC policies and procedures.
• Incident Management, Monitoring, and Alerting:
• Serve as senior escalation point for critical incidents, directing assessment, escalation, and crisis team activation; coordinate with product engineering teams, site reliability engineering (SRE), IT, and others on resolution and root cause analysis.
• Lead post-incident reviews, driving corrective and preventive actions.
• Drive improvements in signal analysis across multiple sources to minimize time to detection for major incidents.
• People & Operations:
• Recruit and develop DOC staff globally, with ongoing training to keep the team current on tools and incident management practices.
• Evaluate and recommend investments in tools, technologies, and staffing; support DOC budget and resource allocation.
• Documentation & Reporting:
• Maintain incident logs, documentation, and SOPs for DOC response and escalation.
• Provide regular updates to senior leadership on DOC performance and improvement opportunities.

• Education:
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field; equivalent work experience considered. Master's degree or relevant certifications are a plus.
• Experience:
• 10+ years in technology operations or engineering, including 6+ years leading a 24/7, at-scale operations function — a traditional operations center (DOC / SOC / NOC) or an engineering organization where teams directly operate the services they build.
• Proven experience managing high-availability operations across multiple sites, regions, or distributed teams.
• Experience with observability/monitoring platforms and incident alerting and notification systems.
• Strong…