Responsibilities:
- Assisting Federal leads with overseeing and leading forensic teams at onsite engagements by coordinating data collection/acquisition operations
- Providing technical assistance on data collection techniques and forensic investigative techniques to appropriate personnel when necessary
- Writing in-depth reports, supports with peer reviews and provides quality assurance reviews for junior personnel
- Supporting forensic analysis and mentoring/providing guidance to others on data collection, analysis and reporting in support of onsite engagements.
- Assisting with leading and coordinating forensic teams in preliminary investigation
- Planning, coordinating and directing the inventory, examination and comprehensive technical analysis of computer systems and digital artifacts.
- Distilling analytic findings into executive summaries and in-depth technical reports
- Serving as technical forensics liaison to stakeholders and explaining investigation details to include forensic methodologies and protocols
- Tracking and documenting on-site incident response activities and providing updates to leadership throughout the engagement
- Traveling to incident response locations in the United States, Territories & Possessions
- Evaluating, extracting and analyzing suspected malicious code
Required Skills:
- U.S. Citizenship
- Must have an active TS/SCI clearance
- Must be able to obtain DHS Suitability
- 8+ years of directly relevant experience in cyber forensic investigations using leading edge technologies and industry standard forensic tools
- Ability to create forensically sound duplicates of computer systems (forensic images)
- Able to write cyber investigative reports documenting digital forensics findings
- Experience with the analysis and characterization of cyber attacks
- Experience with proper digital asset collection and preservation procedures and chain of custody protocols
- Skilled in identifying different classes of attacks and attack stages
- Knowledge of system and application security threats and vulnerabilities
- Knowledgeable in proactive analysis of systems and networks, to include creating trust levels of critical resources
- Must be able to work collaboratively across physical locations.
Desired Skills:
- Experience with or knowledge of two or more of the following tools:
- EnCase
- SIFT
- X-Ways
- Volatility
- WireShark
- Sleuth Kit/ Autopsy
- Magnet Axiom Cyber
- Snort
- Splunk or other SIEM Tools (ArcSight, LogRythm, Elastic, Etc.)
- Other EDR Tools (Crowdstrike, MDE, Trellix, Etc)
- Proficiency with conducting all-source research.
Required Education:
BS Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Computer Engineering or related degree; or HS Diploma and 10+ years of host or digital forensics experience
Desired Certifications:
- GCFA, GCFE, EnCE, CCE, CFCE, CISSP
