MDX Forensic Examiner

Conducts digital media investigations and operations. Examines the hard drives of computers, storage devices, cell phones, PDAs, or any electronic device that may hold evidence that could be used in a court of law. Performs forensic analysis of digital information and gathers and handles evidence. Performs a variety of forensic and electronic discovery services, including digital evidence preservation, forensic analysis, data recovery, tape recovery, electronic mail extraction, and database examination. Uses forensically sound procedures to identify network computer intrusion evidence and identifies perpetrators. Employs forensic tools and techniques to support investigation of computer fraud or other electronic crimes, crack files and system passwords, detects steganography and recovers deleted, fragmented, and corrupted data from digital media of all types. Observes proper evidence custody and control procedures, documents procedures and findings in a manner suitable for courtroom presentation and prepares comprehensive written notes and reports. May be required to testify in federal/military court as expert witnesses.

Required Skills

Demonstrated experience in digital forensics (exploitation and examination)
• Demonstrated experience in mobile device data extraction and analysis
• Experience with file system forensics
• Understanding of iOS and Android operating systems and applications
• Understanding of managing complex, large data set analysis
• In-depth experience with timeline analysis
• Experience with forensic media imaging
• Experience with email analysis
• Experience with signature and hash analysis
• Demonstrated experience with forensic tools such as EnCase, Forensic Toolkit (FTK), and X-Ways Forensics, Axiom, Cellebrite, GrayKey
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with technical report writing experience
• DoD 8570 Compliance (IAT Level II) required to start.
• Active Top Secret/SCI clearance with Poly
• Minimum of 8 years with BS/BA; Minimum of 6 years with MS/MA; Minimum of 3 years with PhD. Bachelor's degree should be within one of these fields of study: Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, or Software Engineering.

Desired Skills

• Industry-specific certifications such as Certified Forensic Computer Examiner (CFCE), EnCase Certified Examiner (EnCE), AccessData Certified Examiner (ACE), GIAC Certified Forensic Examiner (GCFE), Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator (CHFI), PenTest+, and/or DoD-DFE
• Intelligence Community (IC) experience
• Forensic tool and script development
• Programming experience

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