Principal Engineer Network Forensics & Incident Response

# Principal Engineer Network Forensics & Incident Response
* Verizon
* ** Ashburn, VA
** Hybrid
· Lead/Principal
· Full-time###

The Role This position leads forensic investigation and incident response efforts across core, edge, and access network infrastructure. Duties include analyzing network telemetry, directing incident command during major security events, building automated forensic tooling, and producing detailed investigation reports for leadership.### Skills & Experience Requires six or more years in digital forensics, network security, or incident response, with expertise in packet capture analysis, Net Flow/IPFIX, YARA rule creation, memory and endpoint forensics, and experience countering advanced persistent threats and automating DFIR pipelines.###

Who It Suits Suited to a highly experienced forensic engineer comfortable operating independently, capable of executive-level incident command and driving organization-wide forensic standards and tooling innovation within a large enterprise network environment.

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