As a DFIR team member, you will analyze and respond to cyber incidents, perform digital forensics investigations, and help clients mitigate cyber threats in cloud environments.
Cye's DFIR team is responsible for responding to our clients' cyber incidents and crises.
Our group is expanding. If you see yourself in the front line of the cybersecurity domain as a digital forensic and incident response (DFIR) talent, your place is with us. As a DFIR team member, you will participate in hands-on security research and investigations, helping our customers understand and mitigate cyber threats and attacks.
Responsibilities
- Perform incident response lifecycle and real-time activities, including detection and analysis, containment and eradication, and recovery
- Perform incident response in a cloud environment (Azure, AWS etc.).
- Perform digital forensics investigations
- Research and analyze tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) used by malicious actors
- Perform hunt-evil and find-evil activities for proactively detecting attacks
- Work closely with our in-house red team, CTI, and cyber architect teams
- Work closely with worldwide companies, CISOs, and technology experts
Qualifications
- Must be based in the Central or Eastern regions of the US
- 1-2 years of experience as a DFIR team member
- Experience with performing digital forensics in a cloud environment
- Experience with performing digital forensics of Windows-based and/or Linux-based platforms, network forensics, and analysis
- Thorough understanding of threat hunting models, as well as cyber threat intelligence, including TTP and IoCs extraction and mapping
- Experience with research and data analysis of large DBs via Splunk, Elasticsearch, SQL, or VQL
- Strong understanding of targeted attacks; able to create customized tactical remediation plans
- Good written and verbal English communication skills
Cye helps security and risk leaders gain a clear, defensible view of their cyber exposure, grounded in financial impact and real-world attack paths. By continuously quantifying exposure and validating it in context, organizations can establish a strong baseline, prioritize decisions with confidence, and track measurable reduction over time.
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