Digital Forensic Examiner Mid Or Senior Level (Secret Clearance Required)

Location

Linthicum, MD

Description

Cipher Tech is seeking a mid-level forensic examiner (media exploitation examiner) to join a team of experts who play a critical role in protecting national security. Candidates must have at least 4 years of experience conducting forensic examinations outside of the classroom and also hold an active DoD Secret clearance.

Candidates are expected to perform full-scope forensic examinations which include:

• Demonstrated experience in the field of digital media forensics
• Demonstrated experience in mobile device data extraction and analysis
• Understanding of computer file systems
• In-depth experience with file system forensics
• In-depth experience with registry analysis
• In-depth experience with Internet history analysis
• Understanding of steganography and encryption detection and analysis
• Understanding of managing complex large data set analysis
• In-depth experience with timeline analysis
• Experience with forensic media imaging
• In-depth experience with email analysis
• In-depth experience with signature and hash analysis
• Demonstrated experience with forensics tools such as EnCase, Forensic Toolkit, and X-ways
• Fluency with command line to include creating batch files
• Ability to craft SQL queries of basic to moderate complexity
• Ability to write simple but functional Python scripts
• Strong documentation and written communication skills with technical report writing experience

Following the examinations, travel may be required to provide expert witness testimony in military or civilian courts.

Desired skills

• Industry standard certification(s) such as: CFCE, EnCE, ACE, GIAC, DoD, or Axiom.
• Forensic tool and script development experience
• Formal programming experience
• Law enforcement investigation experience and understanding of search and seizure
  
  IMPORTANT: Due to the secure nature of the mission critical work that we perform, work must be performed onsite. We do offer relocation assistance on a case-by-case basis.

ATTN All Military: You are highly encouraged to apply if you have an active Secret clearance and:

• Army: MOS 35L, 35M, 35N, 35P, 35S and 31D or any of the 35 series, with or without an additional skills identifier of 1D: Digital Media Collector (DMC), or anyone with a Digital Forensics background
• Navy: MOS IS-3913 Navy Tactical Counter-Intelligence and Human Intelligence (CI/HUMINT) Specialist
• Marines: MOS 0231 Intelligence Specialist
• Military Police: MOS with an additional skills identifier of P7 Title: Digital Forensic Examiner (DFE)
• Other Branches: Any intelligence background with a specialization in Digital Forensics

CIPHER TECH IS COMMITTED TO HIRING QUALIFIED VETERANS!

About Us

At the core of Cipher Tech Solutions, Inc. (Cipher Tech), you'll find a team of exceptionally talented engineers and software developers who are driven to solve the toughest problems facing national security today. Primarily acting as an engineering service provider, Cipher Tech provides a variety of technical experts to government customers for injection into new or preexisting teams, both on and off customer sites, that are charged with moving the mission forward through applied technology.

Expanding the company's workforce to include a cadre of well-trained digital forensic examiners became a necessity as our military customers, impressed with our forensic software development expertise, asked us to expand the scope of our support.

Today, Cipher Tech provides our customers with a targeted blend of investigative, analytical, and engineering staff all focused narrowly on the field of digital forensics. Embedded directly with the customers we support, we work efficiently and effectively to deliver support for both strategic and tactical mission sets.

Help us meet our customer's demands and find out why we're excited to go to work each and every day.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin.