Senior Digital Forensics Investigator (Contract)

Isilumko Staffing; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 550,000 - 950,000; Full time

Job summary

Isilumko Staffing seeks an Investigator, Digital Forensics to conduct in-depth investigations across endpoints, cloud, and network environments, ensuring preservation, analysis and reporting of digital evidence. The role requires formal training in digital forensics and multiple forensic tools.

Responsibilities include data management, forensic analysis, and producing affidavits and reports for disciplinary, regulatory and legal proceedings. On-site work in Johannesburg is expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in digital forensics, cyber security, computer science, information security, information systems or related field.
• Minimum 5–7 years' experience in Digital Forensics, Incident Response, Cyber Investigations or related discipline.
• Experience preparing evidential reports and presenting findings to senior stakeholders, regulators and legal representatives.

Responsibilities

• Gather, preserve, acquire, extract and analyze digital evidence from endpoints, servers, mobile devices, cloud environments, M365, network infrastructure and other sources.
• Recover deleted, hidden, encrypted or damaged data using approved forensic methodologies and tools.
• Conduct forensic analysis of user activity, emails, authentication records, cloud audit logs, browser activity and application artefacts.
• Prepare detailed forensic reports, statistics, trends, findings, conclusions and recommendations for stakeholders.
• Maintain chain of custody and secure storage/retention of digital evidence.

Skills

Digital Forensics

Incident Response

Cyber Investigations

Education

Bachelor's degree in Digital Forensics / Cyber Security / CS / Info Security

Tools

EnCase

FTK

Magnet AXIOM

Cellebrite

MSAB XRY

Microsoft Sentinel

Microsoft Defender

Microsoft Purview

Other industry tools

Job description

Isilumko Staffing seeks an Investigator, Digital Forensics to conduct in-depth investigations across endpoints, cloud, and network environments, ensuring preservation, analysis and reporting of digital evidence. The role requires formal training in digital forensics and multiple forensic tools.

Responsibilities include data management, forensic analysis, and producing affidavits and reports for disciplinary, regulatory and legal proceedings. On-site work in Johannesburg is expected.