Digital Forensics Investigator
Digital Forensics | Cyber Investigations | Incident Response
Are you passionate about uncovering digital evidence, investigating cyber incidents, and helping organisations understand what really happened during a security event?
We're looking for a Digital Forensics Investigator to support complex cyber investigations, incident response activities, and evidence-led enquiries. This role offers the opportunity to work across endpoints, cloud environments, mobile devices, and enterprise security platforms, applying forensic techniques to identify, preserve, analyse, and present digital evidence.
You'll work closely with internal investigation teams, security stakeholders, legal professionals, and law enforcement to ensure investigations are thorough, accurate, and conducted in accordance with appropriate evidence-handling procedures.
What You'll Be Doing
Conduct digital forensic investigations, collecting and analysing electronic evidence to support internal investigations, legal proceedings, and cybersecurity incident response.
Identify, acquire, preserve, and analyse digital evidence across laptops, Servers, mobile devices, cloud platforms, and enterprise environments.
Investigate suspicious activity, unauthorised access, compromised accounts, data breaches, and other potential security incidents through forensic artefacts and log analysis.
Analyse Microsoft 365 and other cloud-based environments to identify relevant activity, establish timelines, and support attribution of user or threat actor actions.
Use digital forensic and eDiscovery tools to investigate incidents, refine large datasets, and develop effective evidence-collection strategies.
Support incident response activities by analysing logs, endpoint telemetry, network traffic, malware, and other digital artefacts.
Maintain the integrity, confidentiality, and admissibility of evidence through accurate documentation and strict chain-of-custody procedures.
Prepare clear, factual forensic reports documenting investigative processes, findings, analysis, and conclusions.
Collaborate with internal security, compliance, ethics, and investigations teams, as well as external legal advisers, law enforcement, and technology vendors.
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