Entry-Level Cyber Forensic Examiner

SENTINEL GROUP LLC; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

SENTINEL GROUP LLC in Chantilly, VA is seeking an Entry Level Cyber Forensic Examiner to support digital investigations across computers, mobiles, servers, and cloud environments.

You will assist with evidence identification, preservation, and acquisition, following established procedures and legal requirements, while gaining experience in imaging, timeline analysis, and reporting for cybersecurity incidents.

Qualifications

• Entry-level role supporting digital forensic investigations across computers, mobile devices, storage media, networks, cloud environments.
• Assist with evidence identification, preservation, acquisition, examination, and analysis.
• Follow established forensic procedures and legal/regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities

• Support digital forensic examinations of computers, servers, mobile devices, removable media, virtual machines, cloud environments.
• Assist with the identification, preservation, collection, and acquisition of digital evidence while maintaining evidence integrity and chain of custody.
• Perform forensic imaging and data acquisition using approved forensic methodologies and tools.
• Assist in recovering deleted, hidden, encrypted, or otherwise obscured data when technically feasible.
• Conduct basic timeline analysis and correlate artifacts from multiple sources to reconstruct user and system activity.
• Support mobile-device forensic examinations and analysis of mobile application and communications artifacts.
• Assist with analysis of network, cloud, and enterprise-system data when relevant to an investigation.
• Use forensic tools and utilities to search, filter, recover, and analyze digital evidence.
• Document examination procedures, findings, evidence sources, and analytical conclusions.
• Prepare technical notes, evidence inventories, examination records, and draft forensic reports.
• Maintain strict evidence-handling, security, confidentiality, and chain-of-custody procedures.
• Assist senior examiners with investigations involving cybersecurity incidents, insider activity, unauthorized access, fraud, data loss, and other computer-related events.
• Maintain awareness of emerging forensic techniques, operating systems, applications, devices, and digital artifacts.

Skills

Digital forensics

Evidence handling

Forensic imaging

Timeline analysis

Mobile device forensics

Cloud forensics

Job description

SENTINEL GROUP LLC in Chantilly, VA is seeking an Entry Level Cyber Forensic Examiner to support digital investigations across computers, mobiles, servers, and cloud environments.

You will assist with evidence identification, preservation, and acquisition, following established procedures and legal requirements, while gaining experience in imaging, timeline analysis, and reporting for cybersecurity incidents.