Digital Forensics And Incident Response Analyst

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary liaison for forensics analysis tasks such as analysis of digital media devices to identify, reverse engineer and de‑obfuscate content related to a security incident.
• Maintain the Digital Forensics Program for the SOC, including routine process enhancements and upskilling the team on drafted technical reports.
• Support SOC with general operational duties such as security incidents for networks and systems.
• Augment cyber threat intelligence development and reporting derived from forensics investigations.
• Support routine identification, development and implementation of automation tasks surrounding the SOC Forensics Program.
• Research, evaluate, and recommend new security tools, techniques, and technologies and introduce them to the enterprise in alignment with IT security strategy.
• Utilize COTS/GOTS and custom tools and processes/procedures to scan, identify, contain, mitigate and remediate vulnerabilities and intrusions.
• Perform analyses to validate established security requirements and recommend additional security requirements and safeguards.
• Occasionally provide briefings to experienced staff on forensics investigation results.

• Programming languages such as Python, C++, Java Script
• Evidence acquisition for chain‑of‑custody process
• Demonstrated host, cloud, identity, and network forensics experience
• Demonstrated packet capture, volatile memory, suspicious script analysis and forensics experience
• Physical device imaging software familiarity
• Digital forensics software familiarity
• IDS/IPS, firewalls, and anti‑virus/anti‑malware technologies
• Incident response
• Experience in analyzing security alerts via MS Sentinel SIEM (experience with other SIEM tools acceptable)
• Malware analysis technical report writing
• Adherence to standard operating procedures for the SOC

Day shift 8 AM – 5 PM, including Saturdays and Sundays. Shift rotation will be based on operational needs. Some holidays may be required.

Intermediate

Contract position – fully on‑site in Santa Ana, CA.

• Pay rate: $30.00 – $35.00 per hour
• Benefits (subject to eligibility and classification):
  Medical, dental & vision; critical illness, accident and hospital; 401(k) retirement plan (pre‑tax and Roth); life insurance; short and long‑term disability; health spending account; transportation benefits; employee assistance program; time off/leave (PTO, vacation or sick leave).

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance
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Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, for all positions located in the city and county of San Francisco, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Massachusetts Lie Detector
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Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI):
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