[Hiring] Senior Digital Forensic Investigator @eSentire
This description is a summary of our understanding of the job description. Click on 'Apply' button to find out more. Role Description The Senior Digital Forensic Investigator serves as a tactical arm of eSentire’s Incident Response team. Main function of this role is to drive deep expertise and experience in incident response, and digital forensics engagements.
- Handle the most volatile and complex casework while ensuring optimum quality of service and responsiveness.
- Casework spans from financially motivated data breaches to state-affiliated espionage and ideology-driven attacks.
- Operate in close coordination with eSentire’s SOC and Customer Success Management teams.
- Drive fast mobilization, source identification, containment, and quantification of informational losses in response to cyber attacks.
- Be available outside regularly scheduled work hours, including weekends and holidays.
- Encourage team members to catch up on personal business when not busy.
Responsibilities
- Drive deep domain expertise in cyber incident response and digital forensics engagements.
- Serve as case lead in the most demanding and volatile cyber investigations.
- Be a tactical force multiplier for all open and active investigations.
- Overlay with Customer Service Management and SOC teams to optimize quality of service.
- Own and manage all aspects of assigned incident response engagements.
- Be responsive to the customer’s voice and feedback.
- Strive for attention to detail and excellence in service delivery.
- Assist in scoping assignment activities as needed.
- Continually research and develop new methods and approaches to improve service delivery.
- Provide support and mentoring to junior level staff.
- Work rotating shifts and be available on an on-call basis as required.
- Be prepared to work for extended periods outside of regularly scheduled hours, including weekends and holidays.
- Be prepared to travel for short periods and work onsite at client locations throughout the United States and Canada, as required.
Requirements
- Four-year degree in a relevant discipline and eight to ten years of DFIR experience.
- Experience acting in an IR consultant capacity, particularly in the investigation and remediation of polymorphic trojans and modern ransomware variants.
- Conducting cloud-based investigations in AWS, GCP, Azure, and SaaS environments.
- Mastery of threat hunting using forensics at scale tooling and conducting web-based intrusion investigations.
- Extensive experience in one or more mainstream forensics tools such as EnCase, FTK, Axiom, X-Ways, etc.
- In lieu of education requirements, a military or law enforcement background with ten or more years of relevant work experience is acceptable.
- Demonstrable expertise in Digital Forensics Incident Response Investigations.
- Strong working knowledge of information security fundamentals.
- Working knowledge and hands-on experience with cybersecurity tools and technologies including:
- Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR): CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE)
- Security Information and Event Management (SIEM): Splunk, Sumo Logic, IBM QRadar, Microsoft Sentinel
- Firewall & VPN Logging Analysis: FortiGate, SonicWall, Meraki, WAF
- Mass Forensic Triage Tools: Velociraptor, KAPE, Hayabusa
- Active Directory Analysis Tools
- Security consulting and/or case investigation background preferred.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, listening and client management skills.
- Ability to articulate complex IT technical information to customers in a non-technical fashion.
- Self-motivated, strong analytical skills and detail-oriented.
- Demonstrated presentation skills.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health benefits.
- Flexible vacation plan.
- Participation in the company-wide equity program.
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