Listing Description
Description
GuidePoint Security’s Digital Forensics & Incident Response Practice (DFIR) performs the following:
- Reactive Incident Response Investigations
- Forensic Investigations
- Proactive Threat Discovery and Threat Hunting
- Purple Team Exercises (as Blue Team in collaboration with GuidePoint Red Team)
- Tabletop Exercises
As an Incident Response Consultant, you will be a technical resource that leverages your knowledge, skills, and experience to help deliver results to clients in various sectors.
Role Requirements
Your primary responsibilities revolve around solving challenging and complex problems and include sharing knowledge with team members, assisting with the technical aspects of DFIR investigations, and utilizing your creativity and adaptability to perform advanced mission-critical assessments.
GuidePoint Security’s DFIR service offerings are perpetually evolving in response to emerging threats and diverse client needs, and your creativity and expertise will assist the DFIR Practice with adapting to this rapidly changing environment. Primary Duties will include:
- Operate as a technical resource within the Practice and actively participate in DFIR investigations
- Effective engagement communication, time management, and collaboration with peers
- Author comprehensive engagement deliverables that are tailored to both technical and managerial audiences as well as fully detail the technical findings, recommendations, business impact, and realistic remediation strategies
- Foster client relationships by providing support, information, and guidance
- Utilize automation, orchestration, and scripting to reduce manual processes, improving overall efficiency while also enabling new capabilities to meet the rapidly changing needs of our clients
- Contribute to integration of existing and future open-source and commercial tools to help improve DFIR processes and procedures
- Perpetually strengthen relevant skills, knowledge, and abilities to stay at the forefront of the information security industry
- Maintain a strong desire to learn, adapt, and improve along with a rapidly-growing company
- Perform other duties as assigned
Education and Experience
Essential Qualifications
- Two (2+) years of experience performing incident response investigations
- Four (4+) combined years of IT and information security experience
Preferred Qualifications
- Prior experience in a Consulting Services role
- Experience with Digital Forensics & Incident Response (DFIR) methodology and process
- Core capabilities include:
- Network traffic analysis
- Host forensics
- Malware handling / triage
- Log review
- Experience with a variety of industry-related solutions including EDR, SIEM, NDR, FW, NGAV, Velociraptor, OSQuery, and others
- Experience with common programming languages including PowerShell, Python, BASH, Go, or others
- Experience with cloud technologies for the enterprise, such as Amazon Web Services, G Suite, Office 365, and Azure.
- Awareness of attacker techniques, advanced threat groups, and integration of intelligence into an investigation
- Other relevant industry certifications, such as but not limited to GCIA, GCIH, GDAT, GCFE, and GFCA
Listing Details
- Salary: $100000 - $140000
- Citizenship: Us Citizen
- Incentives: Bonus
- Education: Not Provided
- Travel: Travel 25
- Telework: Full Telecommute