Lead Digital Investigations Engineer
MITRE
McLean, VA
The Role
This position involves conducting digital investigations across a range of scenarios including cybersecurity incidents, insider threats, and policy violations. Day-to-day work includes collecting, preserving, analysing, and documenting digital evidence from endpoints, servers, mobile devices, cloud environments, network sources, and logs, as well as supporting cyber operations through alert triage and threat correlation.
Skills & Experience
Candidates should bring expertise across core digital forensics disciplines, including media and mobile device forensics, digital evidence processing, cryptocurrency analysis, darkweb research, cyber attribution, financial cybercrime analysis, and social media exploitation. Experience supporting law enforcement or government investigative operations is highly relevant to this position.
Who It Suits
This role suits an experienced digital forensics professional who is comfortable operating in a mission-driven, government-facing environment and holds or can obtain the necessary clearances. Those motivated by public interest work rather than commercial priorities, and who thrive in technically demanding, collaborative investigative settings, will find this opportunity particularly rewarding.
Typical advertised salary for Digital Forensics roles in United States: $90,000–$154,000 (median $120,000 — from 170 recent listings analysed by Forensic Focus).
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