Description:
The Exercise Specialist supports CrowdStrike’s Business Resilience (BR) department within the Resilience Organization. This role is focused on the design, coordination, facilitation, and evaluation of traditional business continuity and crisis response exercises. The Exercise Specialist partners closely with business, crisis, and product teams to validate preparedness, identify gaps, and drive continuous improvement.
What You’ll Do:
Primary Responsibilities:
- 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.
Secondary Responsibilities:
- 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, Enterprise Risk Management
What You'll Need:
- 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
- Masters degree in risk/resilience discipline may be substituted for equivalent years of experience