Incident Response and Forensics Lead

ClearFocus Technologies; Germantown (MD); On-site; USD 125,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Paid time off

401(k)

Professional development reimbursement

Job summary

ClearFocus Technologies seeks an Incident Response and Forensics Lead for a 100% onsite role in Germantown, Maryland. This hands-on position manages a security team and oversees investigations, analysis, and responses to cyber incidents across cloud, endpoint, and access management domains.

The ideal candidate has incident handling and forensics experience with GCFE, GCIH or CySA, and familiarity with Magnet/GrayKey and EnCase/Cellebrite tooling. Active TS clearance is required.

Qualifications

• Experience in cyber incident investigation and forensics.
• Experience with enterprise cyber defense incident response.
• Ability to coordinate with federal leadership and teams.

Responsibilities

• Manage day to day operations of the incident response team.
• Perform briefings and coordinate with the customer and federal leadership.
• Collect intrusion artifacts and enable mitigation of cyber incidents.
• Coordinate expert technical support to enterprise cyber defense technicians.
• Coordinate incident response functions.
• Monitor external data sources related to cyber defense.

Skills

Incident response

Digital forensics

Leadership

Cloud security

Endpoint security

Access management

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Tools

Magnet Forensics

GrayKey

EnCase

Cellebrite

GCFE

GCIH

CySA+

Job description

ClearFocusTechnologies,a HUBZone certified company, is located inLeesburg, VA.We specialize in cybersecurity and support multiple government and commercial clientsfora variety ofmissions.Wevalue our clients, integrity and employees and believe a single person can make a difference!

We are committed to attracting and retaining the best and brightest talent who desire to work with industry leading technology to stay on top of their profession.We provide an excellent benefit package which includesmedical, dental, vision, paid time off,401(k),paid professionaldevelopment reimbursementand more!

We are seeking an Incident Response and Forensics Lead for an opportunity that is 100% onsite in Germantown, Maryland

Incident Response & Forensics Lead: 'This is a hands-on role, responsible for managing a team and performing investigations, analysis, and responses to cyber incidents. This person must be able to work on-site . This role provides technical support in areas of cyber security to include cloud security, endpoint security, access management, secure networking and incident response. We need someone with cyber incident investigation and forensics experience (GCFE, GCIH or CySA); experience with Magnet / Graykey and Encase / Cellebrite tooling is an important value add. The ideal candidate will have a background in incident handling and forensics that has been matured into a mid-level PM.'

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Manage day to day operations of the team
• Perform briefings, direct coordination with the customer, develop responses to incidents to upper Federal Leadership
• Collect intrusion artifacts (e.g., source code, malware, trojans) and use discovered data to enable mitigation of potential cyber defense incidents within the enterprise.
• Coordinate and provide expert technical support to enterprise-wide cyber defense technicians to resolve cyber defense incidents.
• Coordinate incident response functions.
• Monitor external data sources (e.g., cyber defense vendor sites, Computer Emergency Response
• Cybersecurity Operations, Security Risk Assessment
• 7+ years of related experience with a bachelor or higher degree or an additional 3 years of experience can be substituted with an associate degree

Clearance:

• Active Top Secret clearance, Q clearance processing