Security Engineer (DFIR Lab)
Overview Manage and maintain the DFIR Lab’s infrastructure, hardware, software, process and documentation. Responsibilities - Maintain and manage the team’s DFIR Lab’s hardware and software systems, ensuring availability and performance for the team engagements - Keep the team’s DFIR Lab’s asset inventory up to date and contribute to the process of license renewals, purchases and budgeting - Deploy, configure and maintain forensic and incident response tools like EnCase, Magnet Axiom, FTK, Cellebrite, THOR, Velociraptor, KAPE, IDA Pro, etc. - Configure and optimize forensics workstations and laptops, war laptops, servers and storage systems - Ensure the team’s DFIR Lab adheres to security, privacy and data integrity standards - Implement access controls, logging, audit trails and monitoring solutions to secure the lab environment - Evaluate and contribute to the testing and recommendation of new tools and technologies to enhance the Lab’s capabilities - Develop and maintain scripts or automation tools to streamline workflows and improve efficiency - Contribute to process documentation and continuous service improvement activities - Create and update SOPs for lab operations - Document forensic processes, lab configurations and tool usage guidelines - Collaboration with customers to deploy hardware and software for assessments and incident response engagements - Execute lab tasks in support of cyber incident response engagements - Proficiency with Digital Forensics & Incident Response tools (Cellebrite, THOR, Velociraptor, KAPE, IDA Pro, Security Onion, FTK Imager, Magnet Axiom, EnCase and others) - Good understanding of Incident Response and Digital Forensics tools deployment and functionalities such as EDR, NDR, forensic artifact collectors, intrusion detection, security monitoring, log management - Experience with digital forensics software and equipment such as write blockers, specialized cables and wires in a technical environment, forensics workstations, forensics laptops, adapters and connectors - Experience with (or at least knowledge of) evidence management and data acquisition in a lab in terms of supporting incident response and digital forensics - Good Experience with Linux system structure, commands, functions and tools - Good Experience with networking devices: switches, routers and firewalls - Understanding of storage devices such as NAS - Good Experience with virtualization using VMWare ESXi (Nutanix and other virtualization software knowledge would be a plus) - Knowledge of building baseline system configurations for servers and workstations - Good Experience and familiarity with server and desktop operating systems for Windows, Linux/Unix and Mac - Experience in managing cloud-based environments Qualifications Skills/ Certifications: - Desired certifications in a minimum of one discipline: Incident Response, Digital Forensics, Cloud Computing, Linux/Windows Administration, Penetration Testing, Security Engineering such as CCE, CHFI, GCFE, INE Security, Microsoft/Azure/VMware/RedHat certification Minimum Work Experience : - - 5+ years working in a technical lab, data center, DFIR or System Engineering teams with hands-on experience in setting up scalable technical environments. Education : - Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Cybersecurity, Information Technology or Engineering is desirable, but not mandatory.