Senior Cyber Investigations Lead: Digital Forensics & SIEM

Accenture Federal Services; Leesburg (VA); On-site; USD 102,000 - 204,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Federal Services in Leesburg, VA is seeking a senior cybersecurity professional to lead the organization's systems engineering, administration, cyber security/compliance, and digital forensics initiatives to secure IT networks used for detecting and investigating cybercrimes.

You will design and maintain forensic workflows, SIEM, and response processes per NIST standards; collaborate with leadership and stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in system administration, network engineering, or software development focusing on Cyber Security or 5+ years with a related bachelor's degree.
• 7+ years of professional experience in digital media forensic analysis and malware code analysis.
• CISSP or CompTIA Security+ certification preferred.
• GCFE, GCFA, or EnCE certifications preferred.

Responsibilities

• Advise and assist with maintenance and engineering of the forensic network infrastructure; manage service requests via internal ticketing systems.
• Administer, configure, and secure the unit's tool suite and network security architecture; provide recommendations to leadership.
• Maintain SIEM infrastructure supporting data aggregation from IDS, firewalls, proxies, DLP, antivirus, and vulnerability scanners.
• Monitor DLP solutions and recommend incident response handling per NIST 800-88 standards.
• Design and deploy custom digital forensic builds for analysis; perform endpoint and network-based forensic analysis.
• Support digital forensic investigations, document findings, and manage email-misuse cases in the case management system.
• Serve as SME on evidence preservation and chain-of-custody procedures; handle advanced forensic extraction techniques.
• Create and evolve cases to law enforcement as per internal policies; manage the full investigation lifecycle and update SOPs.

Skills

Cyber Security

System Administration

Network Engineering

Digital Forensics

Malware Analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Job description

Accenture Federal Services in Leesburg, VA is seeking a senior cybersecurity professional to lead the organization's systems engineering, administration, cyber security/compliance, and digital forensics initiatives to secure IT networks used for detecting and investigating cybercrimes.

You will design and maintain forensic workflows, SIEM, and response processes per NIST standards; collaborate with leadership and stakeholders.