Digital Forensic Incident Response Consultant II

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What you'll be doing...

This position manages and executes incident response engagements in our most complex engagements. You will be the expert for clients during high-priority incident response, remediation, and recovery phases, providing both strategic guidance and technical oversight. The role requires in-depth cybersecurity expertise to enable serving as an incident commander throughout the incident response lifecycle. You will use diverse methodologies to investigate cybersecurity incidents, malware analysis, privacy issues, and non-compliance matters to provide an impact assessment and facilitate litigation and regulatory action support. They will also be expected to produce high-quality oral and written work products to present complex technical matters clearly and concisely to various stakeholders.

What we're looking for...

Someone interested in joining the Verizon Threat Research Advisory Center (VTRAC) which consults multinational corporations and government agencies regarding their cybersecurity posture, as well as advising executive leadership teams, advisory boards, and boards of directors through cybersecurity incidents and strategic planning. As a member of this world-class team of consultants located across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC you will be a part of a group that leads thousands of cybersecurity investigations and other proactive engagements while annually authoring the industry-leading Data Breach Investigations Report and Data Breach Digest going back to their inception in 2008. We are looking for someone who is a motivated individual and who is comfortable working in a team or as an individual.

You'll need to have:

• Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience.

• Four or more years of relevant work experience.

• Experience in digital forensic, cyber intrusion and incident response work experience, or similar.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• One or more technical certifications in areas such as incident handling, forensic analysis, reverse malware engineering or forensic tool-specific training.

• Experience in network infrastructure, communication protocols, and network log analysis.

• Experience in packet capture and TCP/UDP traffic flow analysis.

• Knowledge of computer exploitation methodologies.

• Current information security solutions and technologies, including network and host based products

• Experience in using forensic tools such as EnCase, FTK, Sleuth Kit, Volatility, Axiom, Cellebrite, Black Light, X-Ways, or similar.

• Experience in SIEM, EDR, IDS, and DLP technologies, memory and volatile data analysis.

• Knowledge of enterprise cloud infrastructure (AWS, G-Suite, O365, Azure, etc.)

• Knowledge of Command line tooling (grep, sed, awk, powershell, etc.)

• Ability to function in a dynamic environment, managing multiple priorities and deadlines.

• Ability to make recommendations to remediate complex security threats.

• Ability to synthesize data from multiple sources and present concise, relevant information to non-technical audiences.

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to present to a variety of audiences.

• Ability to set and manage competing expectations and priorities with technical and senior stake-holders.

• Strong analytic, qualitative and quantitative reasoning skills.

• Strong creative problem-solving abilities and ability to share knowledge with colleagues.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every "even better" qualification listed above.

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