Responsibilities

• Drive incident response engagements to guide our customers through forensic investigations, contain security incidents, and provide guidance on longer term remediation recommendations.
• Coordinate and guide incident response assistance from team members and vendors
• Investigate customer data breaches and malicious activity leveraging forensics tools; analyze Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X systems to identify Indicators of Compromise (IOCs); examine firewall, web, database, and other log sources to identify evidence of malicious activity.
• Provide case reporting as required across internal and external audiences with the appropriate technical level of detail for threat researchers and/or business customers.
• Evaluate customer security programs, technologies, controls, and business environments; recommend and develop enhancements.
• Provide recommendations on solutions to help customers navigate information security risk.
• Track emerging security practices and contribute to building internal processes, and our various products.
• Stay abreast of the current regulatory environment, industry trends and related implications.

Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Engineering, or other relevant subjects.
• 5+ years of incident response or digital forensics experience.
• Demonstrated practiced knowledge of the lifecycle of network threats, attacks, attack vectors, and methods of exploitation with a knowledge of intrusion set tactics, techniques, and procedures.
• Knowledge of TCP/IP Protocols, network assessment and network/security applications, including log and network traffic capture assessment.
• Experience with Velociraptor, Axiom, FTK, SIFT, Volatility, ELK, WireShark, Plaso, Skadi or other open source forensic/log analysis/network assessment tools.
• Experience with EDR tools like CrowdStrike Falcon, Carbon Black, Sentinel One, etc.
• Knowledge of industry standard frameworks – NIST, HIPAA, PCI.
• Self-motivated; entrepreneurial spirit; comfortable working in a dynamic environment.
• Strong interactive communication skills (verbal & written).
• Aptitude to learn technical concepts/terms, and aptitude to guide multiple tasks/projects simultaneously.
• Experience deploying tools to AWS and familiarity using Cloud based platform for assessment.

Additional Skills and Qualifications

• Excellent critical thinking skills with the experience to diagnose and troubleshoot technical issues
• Customer oriented with a strong interest in consumer satisfaction
• Experience to learn new technologies and concepts and comfortable using command-line interfaces
• Experience guiding teams of highly motivated analysts
• Communicate highly technical information to a non-technical audience
• Experience to handle and work with consumers through high priority scenarios
• Knowledge in project management
• Foster a positive work environment and attitude
• Flexibility with your work schedule in times of urgent response needs
• Contribute to thought guidance within the DFIR industry

Bonus Points 

• GCIH, GCIA, GCFA, GCFE, ACE, EnCE, CFCE, CISSP, or similar
• Security policy, governance, privacy or regulatory experience (e.g., NIST, ISO, HIPAA, PCI).
• Securing cloud based platforms (Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, etc.).
• Experience with system hardening procedures for Windows, Linux, Unix is helpful. Knowledge and/or experience with Nmap, Nessus, Nexpose, Qualys, Burp, Kali, Metasploit, Meterpreter, or other offensive tools is helpful.
• Knowledge of scripting for development of security tools and industry frameworks is helpful.
• SCADA/Control systems network experience is a plus.

Compensation

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The US base salary for this position ranges from $140,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $215,000/year in our highest geographic market. Consistent with applicable laws, an employee's pay within this range is based on a number of factors, which include but are not limited to relevant education, skills, job-related knowledge, qualifications, work experience, credentials, and/or geographic location. Your recruiter can share more on target salary for your location during the interview process. Coalition, Inc. reserves the right to modify this range as needed.

Perks

• 100% medical, dental and vision coverage
• Flexible PTO policy
• Annual home office stipend and WeWork access
• Mental & physical health wellness programs (One Medical, Headspace, Gympass, and more)!
• Competitive compensation and opportunity for advancement

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