• Type: Contract
• Job #1723

Title: Computer Forensics Engineer
Location: Chantilly, VA
*Clearance: Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *

Company Overview:

Cornerstone Defense, in partnership with our military, intelligence, and civil government customers, supports U.S. operations worldwide through the use of many different types of intelligence, satellite, and cyber technologies. Cornerstone’s Intelligence Sector provides solutions to the United States Government for information collection, operations, exploitation and dissemination, and research activities. Our Team specializes in software development, cloud architecture, systems and network engineering, systems integration, agile management, as well as targeting operations and intelligence analysis. Our support to our mission customers includes cyber network operations, exploitation and defense, signals intelligence, human intelligence, and critical missions and networks.

Description/Responsibilities: 

The candidate will provide forensic analyst expertise support to a United States Government (USG) customer and will be an active contributing member of a security vulnerability and computer forensic analysis team. The candidate must exercise excellent social acumen and operational judgment and be able to respond quickly to high priority tasking. The candidate must understand the importance of using tradecraft to minimize exposure. The candidate should have a comfort level with speaking as s/he may be required to brief assessments at various forums across the Intelligence Community. Furthermore, the ideal candidate will:
 

• Conduct computer forensics and security vulnerability analysis using commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) and/or customer provided tools
• Evaluate cloud services, web applications, and commercial-off-the-shelf software and hardware
• Perform network traffic analysis of web services to analyze raw packet data for anomalies, Support cyber security initiatives through both predictive and reactive analysis, articulating emerging trends to leadership and staff.
• Provide management with discrepancy reports and end user documentation.
• Communicate daily with program managers, management, customer representatives, and end users to ensure delivery of quality products.

Required Skills/Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Cybersecurity, Information Technology (IT), Electrical Engineering (EE), Computer Science, Computer/Digital Forensics
• Demonstrated XX years’ experience in three or more of the following: analysis, network engineering, networking security, penetration testing, red taming, hardware engineering, software reverse engineering, computer exploitation.
• Proven proficiency with at least three (3) or more of the following: mobile security, telecom protocols, operating systems (Windows, iOS, Android, or Linux), reverse engineering, forensics, network analysis, vulnerability assessment or malware forensics.
• Demonstrated familiarity with Wireshark, Fiddler, EnCase, Sleuthkit and/or other forensic tools
• Demonstrated experience in drafting reports, documenting case details, and able to summarize findings and recommendations based on system analysis.
• Demonstrated experience in performing post-incident computer forensics while maintaining proper chain of custody and without destruction of critical data.

Desired Skills/Qualifications: 

• Experience within Intelligence Community (IC) community
• Experience employing advanced forensic tools and techniques for attack reconstruction, including dead system analysis and volatile data collection and analysis
• Law Enforcement/Cyber Forensics experience
• Desired experience ensuring quality assurance and the spreading of best practices
• Relevant Certifications: CCFP, GCIA, OSCP, CEH, CISSP, or Security+

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Equal Opportunity Employment
Cornerstone Defense is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive working environment for all employees and to upholding diversity in our recruiting and hiring processes. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, age, religion, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.