Digital Forensics Incident Response Consultant

Verizon Communications • Irving, TX

254d • Remote

About The Position

When you join Verizon, you want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely — even if they're daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love — driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together — lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the #VTeamLife.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Four or more years of relevant work experience in a cybersecurity capacity.
• Experience responding to cybersecurity incidents, triaging, and/or investigating cybersecurity incidents.

Nice To Haves

• One or more technical certifications in areas such as incident handling, forensic analysis, reverse malware engineering or forensic tool-specific training.
• Experience working in an enterprise environment.
• Experience working with clients to proactively provide cybersecurity services (tabletops, incident response training, etc.).
• Experience in network infrastructure, communication protocols, and network log analysis.
• Experience in packet capture and TCP/UDP traffic flow analysis.
• Knowledge of computer exploitation methodologies.
• Current information security solutions and technologies, including network and host based products.
• Experience in using forensic tools such as EnCase, FTK, Sleuth Kit, Volatility, Axiom, Cellebrite, Black Light, X-Ways, or similar.
• Experience in SIEM, EDR, IDS, and DLP technologies, memory and volatile data analysis.
• Knowledge of enterprise cloud infrastructure (AWS, G-Suite, O365, Azure, etc.).
• Knowledge of Command line tooling (grep, sed, awk, powershell, etc.).
• Ability to function in a dynamic environment, managing multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Ability to make recommendations to remediate complex security threats.
• Ability to synthesize data from multiple sources and present concise, relevant information to non-technical audiences.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to present to a variety of audiences.
• Ability to set and manage competing expectations and priorities with technical and senior stakeholders.
• Strong analytic, qualitative and quantitative reasoning skills.
• Strong creative problem-solving abilities and ability to share knowledge with colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Perform incident response and digital forensic activities for PS engagements.
• Deliver and execute PS engagements focused on helping customers manage and investigate cybersecurity incidents.
• Conduct log reviews including structured (CSV, TSV, JSON) and unstructured (syslog) data.
• Perform Windows, Linux, Mac, and mobile forensics investigations.
• Utilize SIEM solutions such as Splunk, Sentinel, ELK for investigations.
• Engage in threat hunting using EDR solutions such as CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Trend Micro.
• Apply Microsoft cloud skills such as M365 and/or Azure.
• Utilize AWS cloud skills such as GuardDuty, CloudWatch, IAM, WAF.
• Conduct global or onsite security assessments, possibly working in customer's office/environment.
• Attend periodical meetings to discuss ongoing security initiatives and their progress.
• Advise and work on security initiatives alongside the customer.

Benefits

• Hybrid work environment with defined work location including work from home.
• Minimum eight assigned office days per month.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Industry: Telecommunications
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree