Summary
G42 is hiring a Security Engineer to manage and maintain its digital forensics and incident response (DFIR) lab infrastructure, tools, and documentation. The role includes configuring forensic workstations and systems, maintaining inventory, implementing access controls and monitoring, and supporting incident response engagements. Candidates should have at least five years of hands-on experience in a technical lab, data center, DFIR, or systems engineering team. A relevant bachelor’s degree is desirable but not mandatory.
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Overview:
Manage and maintain the DFIR Lab’s infrastructure, hardware, software, process and documentation.
Responsibilities:
- Maintain and manage the team’s DFIR Lab’s hardware and software systems, ensuring availability and performance for the team engagements
- Keep the team’s DFIR Lab’s asset inventory up to date and contribute to the process of license renewals, purchases and budgeting
- Deploy, configure and maintain forensic and incident response tools like EnCase, Magnet Axiom, FTK, Cellebrite, THOR, Velociraptor, KAPE, IDA Pro, etc.
- Configure and optimize forensics workstations and laptops, war laptops, servers and storage systems
- Ensure the team’s DFIR Lab adheres to security, privacy and data integrity standards
- Implement access controls, logging, audit trails and monitoring solutions to secure the lab environment
- Evaluate and contribute to the testing and recommendation of new tools and technologies to enhance the Lab’s capabilities
- Develop and maintain scripts or automation tools to streamline workflows and improve efficiency
- Contribute to process documentation and continuous service improvement activities
- Create and update SOPs for lab operations
- Document forensic processes, lab configurations and tool usage guidelines
- Collaboration with customers to deploy hardware and software for assessments and incident response engagements
- Execute lab tasks in support of cyber incident response engagements
- Proficiency with Digital Forensics & Incident Response tools (Cellebrite, THOR, Velociraptor, KAPE, IDA Pro, Security Onion, FTK Imager, Magnet Axiom, EnCase and others)
- Good understanding of Incident Response and Digital Forensics tools deployment and functionalities such as EDR, NDR, forensic artifact collectors, intrusion detection, security monitoring, log management
- Experience with digital forensics software and equipment such as write blockers, specialized cables and wires in a technical environment, forensics workstations, forensics laptops, adapters and connectors
- Experience with (or at least knowledge of) evidence management and data acquisition in a lab in terms of supporting incident response and digital forensics
- Good Experience with Linux system structure, commands, functions and tools
- Good Experience with networking devices: switches, routers and firewalls
- Understanding of storage devices such as NAS
- Good Experience with virtualization using VMWare ESXi (Nutanix and other virtualization software knowledge would be a plus)
- Knowledge of building baseline system configurations for servers and workstations
- Good Experience and familiarity with server and desktop operating systems for Windows, Linux/Unix and Mac
- Experience in managing cloud-based environments
Qualifications:
Skills/ Certifications: -
Desired certifications in a minimum of one discipline: Incident Response, Digital Forensics, Cloud Computing, Linux/Windows Administration, Penetration Testing, Security Engineering such as CCE, CHFI, GCFE, INE Security, Microsoft/Azure/VMware/RedHat certification
Minimum Work Experience : -
- 5+ years working in a technical lab, data center, DFIR or System Engineering teams with hands-on experience in setting up scalable technical environments.
Education : -
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Cybersecurity, Information Technology or Engineering is desirable, but not mandatory.