Remote Cybersecurity Incident Response Engineer

Job Summary

An IT consulting firm is filling a position for a Remote Cybersecurity Incident Response Engineer.

Individual must be able to fulfill the following responsibilities:

• Lead incident response and cyber forensic investigations for the most complex cybersecurity incidents
• Collect and investigate host-based forensic artifacts to determine threat actor or malware activity on a suspected compromised host
• Utilize host, identity, and network artifacts to track lateral movement activity

Qualifications for this position include:

• 5-6 years of security experience with at least 4 of those years within cyber incident response
• 2 years of cyber forensic response
• Expert knowledge of forensic methodologies and best practices to investigate intrusions
• Experience using a variety of forensic analysis tools in incident response investigations to determine the extent and scope of compromise
• Experience leading technical incident response assessment during high stress crisis events
• Strong knowledge of host, identity, and network artifacts utilized during IR