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Host Based Analyst III

DigiFlight
Columbia, MD Full Time
POSTED ON 5/13/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 7/13/2026

Responsibilities:

- Assisting Federal leads with overseeing and leading forensic teams at onsite engagements by coordinating data collection/acquisition operations

- Providing technical assistance on data collection techniques and forensic investigative techniques to appropriate personnel when necessary

- Writing in-depth reports, supports with peer reviews and provides quality assurance reviews for junior personnel

- Supporting forensic analysis and mentoring/providing guidance to others on data collection, analysis and reporting in support of onsite engagements.

- Assisting with leading and coordinating forensic teams in preliminary investigation

- Planning, coordinating and directing the inventory, examination and comprehensive technical analysis of computer systems and digital artifacts.

- Distilling analytic findings into executive summaries and in-depth technical reports

- Serving as technical forensics liaison to stakeholders and explaining investigation details to include forensic methodologies and protocols

- Tracking and documenting on-site incident response activities and providing updates to leadership throughout the engagement

- Traveling to incident response locations in the United States, Territories & Possessions

- Evaluating, extracting and analyzing suspected malicious code

Required Skills:

- U.S. Citizenship

- Must have an active TS/SCI clearance

- Must be able to obtain DHS Suitability

- 8 years of directly relevant experience in cyber forensic investigations using leading edge technologies and industry standard forensic tools

- Ability to create forensically sound duplicates of computer systems (forensic images)

- Able to write cyber investigative reports documenting digital forensics findings

- Experience with the analysis and characterization of cyber attacks

- Experience with proper digital asset collection and preservation procedures and chain of custody protocols

- Skilled in identifying different classes of attacks and attack stages

- Knowledge of system and application security threats and vulnerabilities 

- Knowledgeable in proactive analysis of systems and networks, to include creating trust levels of critical resources

- Must be able to work collaboratively across physical locations.


Desired Skills:

- Experience with or knowledge of two or more of the following tools:

--- EnCase

--- SIFT

--- X-Ways

--- Volatility

--- WireShark

--- Sleuth Kit/ Autopsy

--- Magnet Axiom Cyber

--- Snort

--- Splunk or other SIEM Tools (ArcSight, LogRythm, Elastic, Etc.)

--- Other EDR Tools (Crowdstrike, MDE, Trellix, Etc)

- Proficiency with conducting all-source research. 


Required Education:

BS Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Computer Engineering or related degree; or HS Diploma and 10 years of host or digital forensics experience

Desired Certifications:

- GCFA, GCFE, EnCE, CCE, CFCE, CISSP

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