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Senior Adviser – Digital Forensics & Incident Response

Island Bell Advisers

Sydney, New South Wales

Onsite · Senior · Full-time

The Role

This senior position involves leading major cyber incident responses, directing forensic investigations across endpoints, servers, networks and cloud platforms, and briefing executives, boards and legal counsel on findings, risks and options throughout the engagement.

Skills & Experience

Requires at least ten years in cyber security, including five or more years in hands-on digital forensics and incident response, strong capability across Windows and Linux systems, evidence handling, chain of custody practices, and experience producing forensic reports and expert statements.

Who It Suits

Suited to an experienced DFIR practitioner who can combine deep technical skill with composed leadership under pressure, mentoring junior staff while engaging confidently with regulators, insurers, legal counsel and senior stakeholders.

Typical advertised salary for Digital Forensics roles in Australia: A$108,000–A$138,000 (median A$128,000 — from 16 recent listings analysed by Forensic Focus).

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Listed: 13 Oct 2026