Staff DFIR
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About the Role
Conduct end-to-end forensic investigations, lead DFIR teams, analyze logs, and automate workflows while ensuring compliance and effective communication.
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Responsibilities
- Own end to end forensic investigations across endpoints, cloud platforms, and network infrastructure
- Coordinate and lead the DFIR team across active investigations
- Pull and analyze logs from EDR/XDR, SIEM, DLP, IdP, and email gateway platforms
- Acquire forensic images from laptops, mobile devices, servers, and cloud repositories with full chain of custody
- Analyze artifacts including file systems, memory, registry, logs, and config states
- Correlate endpoint, network, and identity telemetry into a coherent picture of attacker behavior
- Build AI assisted workflows that automate evidence collection, pattern detection, and timeline generation
- Translate technical findings into clear, chronological narratives for executives and stakeholders
- Feed investigation outcomes back into detection rules, access controls, and policy improvements
Requirements
- Experience owning end to end forensic investigations
- Ability to coordinate and lead a DFIR team
- Proficiency in log analysis from EDR/XDR, SIEM, DLP, IdP, and email gateway platforms
- Experience acquiring forensic images with chain of custody
- Deep knowledge of file systems, memory, registry, and logs
- Ability to correlate endpoint, network, and identity telemetry
- Experience building AI assisted workflows for evidence collection and pattern detection
- Strong communication skills to translate technical findings for executives
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Who We Are
- COGNNA is shaping the future of cybersecurity through innovation, intelligence, and a relentless drive to protect.
- Our platforms integrate cutting edge AI, real time threat detection, and deep security insights to help organizations proactively defend against evolving cyber threats.
Responsibilities
- Own end to end forensic investigations across endpoints, cloud platforms, and network infrastructure from initial triage to root cause, including IoC identification, data exfiltration, and unauthorized access.
- Coordinate and lead the DFIR team across active investigations, ensuring consistent methodology, evidence integrity, and investigative velocity.
- Pull and analyze logs from EDR/XDR, SIEM, DLP, IdP, and email gateway platforms to reconstruct precise attack and user activity timelines.
- Acquire forensic images from laptops, mobile devices, servers, and cloud repositories with full chain of custody.
- Go deep on artifacts file systems, memory, registry, logs, config states to reconstruct exactly what happened and when.
- Correlate endpoint, network, and identity telemetry into a coherent picture of attacker behavior and system access.
- Build AI assisted workflows that automate evidence collection, pattern detection, and timeline generation to scale investigative capacity.
- Translate technical findings into clear, chronological narratives for executives and cross functional stakeholders no jargon, no ambiguity.
- Close the loop: feed investigation outcomes back into detection rules, access controls, and policy improvements.
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