Senior Engineer Network Forensics & Incident Response
Verizon
Southlake, TX
The Role
This position leads forensic investigations and incident response across network, cloud and endpoint environments. Responsibilities include collecting and analysing packet captures, memory dumps and logs, authoring YARA rules, building automation for evidence collection, and producing detailed incident reports for major security events.
Skills & Experience
Candidates need several years in digital forensics, network security or incident response, with proficiency in Splunk, ELK, EnCase, FTK, Volatility, X-Ways and SANS SIFT. Scripting, threat hunting, memory forensics and knowledge of APT tactics are essential.
Who It Suits
Suited to an experienced forensic or incident response engineer comfortable acting as technical lead during high-impact investigations, who enjoys deep technical analysis, tooling development and cross-team collaboration within a large network security organisation.
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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