General Description

The Senior DFIR Consultant is a seasoned technical contributor within GuidePoint Security’s Digital Forensics & Incident Response (DFIR) Practice. Operating with a high degree of autonomy, the Senior Consultant leads and executes complex investigations across a range of engagement types, delivers high-quality analysis and client communication, and helps the practice continuously evolve its methodologies and tooling in response to emerging threats.

The DFIR Practice performs reactive incident response investigations, forensic investigations, proactive threat discovery and threat hunting, and Purple Team exercises (as Blue Team in collaboration with the GuidePoint Red Team). In this role you will be a technical resource who leverages deep knowledge, skills, and experience to deliver results to clients across a variety of sectors, applying creativity and adaptability to mission-critical assessments.

Roles and Responsibilities: 

Technical Execution & Engagement Delivery

• Investigation Execution: Operate as a core technical resource within the Practice and actively lead and perform DFIR investigations, including host forensics, network traffic analysis, malware handling/triage, log review, and BEC analysis.
• Engagement Communication: Drive effective engagement communication, time management, and coordination throughout the investigative lifecycle.
• Deliverables: Author comprehensive engagement deliverables tailored to both technical and managerial audiences that fully detail technical findings, recommendations, business impact, and realistic remediation strategies.
• Mission-Critical Assessments: Apply creativity and adaptability to perform advanced, mission-critical assessments across reactive and proactive engagement types.

Collaboration & Continuous Improvement

• Peer Collaboration: Collaborate effectively with peers across concurrent engagements, sharing findings and coordinating to deliver consistent, high-quality results.
• Automation & Efficiency: Utilize automation, orchestration, and scripting to reduce manual processes, improve overall efficiency, and enable new capabilities that meet the rapidly changing needs of clients.
• Tooling Contribution: Contribute to the integration of existing and future open-source and commercial tools to improve DFIR processes and procedures.
• Skills Development: Perpetually strengthen relevant skills, knowledge, and abilities to stay at the forefront of the information security industry.

Client & Practice Contribution

• Client Relationships: Foster client relationships by providing support, information, and guidance during engagements, serving as a credible technical voice.
• Practice Evolution: Help the DFIR Practice adapt to a perpetually evolving service portfolio driven by emerging threats and diverse client needs.
• Growth Mindset: Maintain a strong desire to learn, adapt, and improve alongside a rapidly growing company; perform other duties as assigned.

Engagement & Availability Expectations

The Senior Consultant is held to a high standard for availability, initiative, and ownership commensurate with a senior technical role. This includes:

• Maintaining availability outside standard business hours during high-severity incident surges.
• Participating in on-call rotation as appropriate for the role.
• Proactively identifying and addressing gaps in engagement delivery, processes, or client communication.
• Setting an example of professionalism, urgency, and ownership on every engagement.

Required Experience and Education: 

• 7 years of experience, including:
  • Four (4+) years of hands-on experience performing incident response investigations.
  • Six (6+) combined years of IT and information security experience.
• Demonstrated proficiency across core DFIR disciplines: host forensics, network traffic analysis, malware handling/triage, log review, and BEC analysis.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present technical findings to both technical and managerial audiences.
• Creativity and adaptability to solve challenging and complex problems in a rapidly changing environment.
• Embraces emerging technologies, including AI tools, to work smarter, solve problems, and drive better business outcomes.

Preferred Experience and Education

• Prior experience in a consulting or professional services role.
• Experience with established DFIR methodology and process.
• Experience with a variety of industry-related solutions including EDR, NDR, XDR, SIEM, FW, NGAV, Velociraptor, and others.
• Proficiency with common programming and scripting languages including PowerShell, Python, Bash, Go, or similar.
• Experience with enterprise cloud technologies such as Amazon Web Services, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, and Azure.
• Awareness of attacker techniques, advanced threat groups, and integration of threat intelligence into an investigation.
• Relevant industry certifications such as, but not limited to, GCFA, GCFE, GCIH, GCIA, GDAT, GREM, or CISSP.
  
  

What Success Looks Like

• You independently lead investigations end to end and deliver rigorous, high-quality analysis under pressure.
• Your engagement deliverables are clear, accurate, and trusted by both technical and executive audiences.
• You have improved at least one process, tool, or automation that makes DFIR engagements more efficient.
• Clients recognize you as a credible, dependable technical resource during high-stakes incidents.
• You operate with ownership and initiative—identifying problems, proposing solutions, and executing without being asked.

Travel Requirements:

• Up to 20% travel

Physical Requirements:

• Sedentary work
• Substantial movement of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers for a minimum of 8 hours a day
• Required to have close visual acuity to view computer terminal and/or extensive reading for a minimum of 8 hours a day