Digital Forensic Examiner/Incident Responder

Duties

The Digital Forensic Examiner/Incident Responder shall carry out the essential performance responsibilities listed below:

• Detect compromised systems, and identify how and when a breach occurred, understand what attack, and successfully contain and remediate incidents.
• Conduct forensic investigations, both internally and externally; Collect, preserve and analyze data and digital evidence.
• Perform forensic examinations and preserve analyzed data obtained from examining electronic devices, including laptop, desktop computers, servers, mobile devices.
• Identify cybercriminals through open-source research and analyze technologies used by them.
• Assist with incident response and perform tasks such as threat hunting, data recovery, email analysis and malware analysis across multiple types of operating systems.
• Respond to security threats and incidents, individually and as part of a team to resolve issues.
• Provide proactive intelligence to teammates who will source threats, enact identification, contain, and eradicate measures while supporting recovery efforts to improve the District’s security posture.
• Provide detailed reports or verbally communicate security incidents to the appropriate departments, management, legal, and security operations.
• Conduct research regarding the latest methods, tools, and trends in digital forensics analysis and informing team members and project stakeholders of latest threats and avoidance techniques.
• Present evidence to investigators and able to speak about techniques and evidence collection practices in hearings, if requested.
• Experience investigating incidents using open source forensic tools, Microsoft Office 365 Security tools, Wireshark, System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) logs, Security Information & Event Management (SIEM), and syslogs.
• Create thorough reports and documentation of all incidents and procedures; presenting findings to team and leadership on a routine basis.
• Perform and promote all activities in compliance with the equal employment and non-discrimination policies of The School Board of Broward County, Florida.
• Participate in training programs offered to enhance the individual skills and proficiency related to the job responsibilities.
• Review current developments, literature and technical sources of information related to job responsibilities.
• Ensure adherence to safety rules and procedures.
• Follow federal and state laws, as well as School Board policies.
• Perform other duties as assigned by the immediate supervisor, or designee.

 Earn a Degree in Crime Scene Investigation, Forensic Science, Computer Forensics or Forensic Psychology

Requirements

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

• An earned associate degree from an accredited institution.
• A minimum of five (5) years’ experience within the last seven (7) years of experience in the field related to the title of the position.
OR
• A standard high school diploma or satisfactory completion of an approved General Educational Development (GED) Testing Program.
• A minimum of seven (7) years within the last twelve (12) years of experience in the field related dot the title of the position.
AND
• Experience in detecting, tracking, and responding to digital security incidents.
• Computer skills as required for the position.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

• An earned bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field from an accredited institution.
• One or more active industry certifications in the following: GCFE: Certified Forensic Examiner, GCFA: Certified Forensic Analyst, GNFA: network Forensic Analyst, GASF: Advanced Smartphone Forensic, GREM: Reverse Engineering Malware, GCTO: Cyber Threat Intelligence, GCIH: Certified Incident Handler, CompTIA Security+ | CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst (CySA+).
• Bilingual skills.

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