Investigations and Forensics Analyst
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Job Details
Skills
- Forensics
Summary
Location: Remote - United States (EST availability required)
Duration: Contract-to-Hire (Full-Time)
Progressive experience in digital forensics, cybersecurity investigations, or a closely related discipline.
Demonstrated expertise conducting insider threat, data exfiltration, and employee misconduct investigations in enterprise environments.
Proficiency with enterprise forensic platforms: Magnet AXIOM Cyber, Cellebrite Endpoint Collector and Endpoint Investigator, and Sumuri Recon or comparable tooling.
Strong working knowledge of forensic imaging standards and acquisition methodologies - including write-blocking, hash verification, and documented chain of custody - consistent with industry frameworks such as ACPO, SWGDE, or equivalent.
Hands-on proficiency with EDR platforms - particularly CrowdStrike Falcon - for behavioral analysis, process telemetry, and forensic artifact review.
Strong working knowledge of Microsoft 365 forensics: Exchange Online mail flow and Recoverable Items, Azure AD sign-in and audit logs, Purview Compliance, and MDE.
Solid understanding of endpoint forensics across Windows and macOS: file system artifacts, registry analysis, prefetch/MRU data, browser forensics, and OS-level event logs.
Working knowledge of cloud and SaaS forensic investigation: OAuth and SAML authentication flows, conditional access logs, cloud storage access patterns, and admin audit trails.
Familiarity with network-layer investigation fundamentals: DNS, proxy, VPN, and firewall log analysis sufficient to reconstruct data movement and access patterns.
Proficiency in Google SecOps/Chronicle (YARA-L) for investigation and threat hunting.
Experience using device management platforms (JAMF, Intune, SCCM) for custodian device attribution and asset profiling in the context of investigations.
Proven ability to produce legally defensible, executive-quality investigation reports with precise evidentiary grounding.
Experience supporting eDiscovery processes, including ESI collection, legal hold execution, and custodian data scoping.
Demonstrated hands-on experience using large language model (LLM) platforms - such as Anthropic Claude or Microsoft Copilot - to augment investigative, analytical, or reporting workflows.
Ability to design and implement structured prompting frameworks, analysis pipelines, or automation logic that apply AI to forensic use cases such as timeline synthesis, log triage, anomaly narration, or report generation.
Comfort evaluating AI-generated output critically - understanding where LLM reasoning aids investigation and where human judgment must govern evidentiary conclusions.
Experience or strong aptitude for building lightweight investigative tooling using Python, PowerShell, or similar, with AI as a reasoning or enrichment layer.
Experience working within or directly supporting corporate Legal, HR, or Ethics functions on sensitive employment or litigation matters.
Solid grounding in incident response methodology - including initial triage, scoping, containment sequencing, and post-incident analysis - with experience leading or co-leading high-impact security incidents.
Proficiency in Google SecOps/Chronicle and Splunk (SPL).
Familiarity with Zscaler proxy log analysis and cloud access security broker (CASB) telemetry.
Prior experience testifying or providing declarations in legal, arbitration, or regulatory proceedings.
Relevant certifications: GCFE, GCFA, EnCE, CFCE, CISSP, or equivalent.
- Dice Id: 10108743
- Position Id: 2026-3009
- Posted 4 hours ago
Company Info
About Caresoft
Caresoft specializes in IT Project work, Oracle Hyperion Implementations, IT Security, Open Source implementations and placing IT subject matter experts on projects for our Fortune 500 Clients. Our company works to ensure our clients success by exceeding their expectations and providing visionary solutions for future growth and the best possible outcomes.
Founded in 1994, our IT solutions support a broad spectrum of clients ranging from funded ventures to fortune 500 companies. We have a strong presence in the United States and in India with offices in both the countries. We believe in providing practice based IT staffing and consulting solutions. Caresoft has been built on the solid technical backgrounds and visionary foresight.
Our consultants are highly talented, goal-oriented individuals who are dedicated to providing first-rate services. We are also aggressively pursuing numerous business partnerships to focus on the latest technologies. Our company has grown because of our determination to be the best. We are devoted to understanding and meeting the needs of our clients and the goals of our employees. At caresoft everyone from top management down pulls together to provide our clients with the absolute best IT solutions.
Caresoft firmly believes that its competitive edge is derived from its people and one of the main catalysts for CSI's success has indeed been its tremendously talented IT workforce. Our commitment to our clients is reflected by the amount of time and money we invest in recruiting, developing, training, mentoring and growing our people.
At CSI, we employ the best talent in the industry, train them in various technology and lines of business and provide them with the best technologies & projects to work on. Since the business of consulting makes the importance of a talented, motivated and creative workforce grow manifold, we have a well-defined Human Resource Development program in place that is based on providing a competitive compensation, fair evaluation, mentoring, training and growth. We attribute our high retention ratio to this successfully implemented program.
Why Join Caresoft?
At Caresoft Inc., our motto is "We Care". This is visible in our relationships with our Past and Present clients and with our Past and Present employees. At Caresoft, we put the Human Touch as our first priority. Coupled with our Consultants' High Tech. Expertise and Professional Attitude we provide complete System Solutions to our Clients. We are committed to providing leading edge services and technology and we offer some of the Industry's finest consulting and specialty services integrating state-of-the-art systems.
We Take Care of Our People
At Caresoft; we offer you not just a job, but a career.
Company Quick Facts
Among fastest 50 growing NJ Tech Companies 5 consecutive years - Deloitte & Touche
Nominated for Fortune List of - 100 Best SM Companies to work for - Great Places to Work Institute / Fortune
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Top 100 Outsourcing Vendors - "Black Book of Outsourcing" By Outsourcing Management Institute
Oracle Gold Partner, Microsoft Gold Partner, IBM Business Partner, SUN iForce Partner
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