Principal Digital Forensics Examiner
Leidos
Bethesda, MD
The Role
This position leads a digital forensics program supporting an intelligence agency mission, overseeing staff conducting forensic and non-forensic data collections. Duties include building work plans, setting performance metrics, managing personnel, and ensuring compliance with forensic standards across acquisition, analysis and reporting activities.
Skills & Experience
Requires extensive experience in computer forensics, DOMEX and intelligence analysis, plus project management and staffing. An industry forensic certification such as EnCE, ACE, CCE or GIAC is required, along with a STEM degree and active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.
Who It Suits
Suited to a senior forensic examiner or program lead with significant government or defense sector experience, strong leadership and mentoring ability, and the clearance needed to manage classified forensic operations at a customer site.
Typical advertised salary for Digital Forensics roles in United States: $92,000–$154,000 (median $122,000 — from 221 recent listings analysed by Forensic Focus).
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Certifications mentioned: EnCE · CCE — find training for these on the DFIR Training Finder.