Digital Investigations Specialist (201jc) vacancy in Central London ()

My client is seeking to recruit additional Digital Investigations Specialist to join their team in London; they are looking for permanent personnel, but are also open to long term contractors as well.

Roles & Responsibilities
The primary role of this position is to conduct digital investigations including acquisition, analysis and data recovery on computers and other digital storage media. You will be expected to have a solid foundation of technical experience and expertise gained from working in a law enforcement or corporate laboratory environment.

You will be required to attend client sites in order to secure and retrieve data in a forensically sound manner.

You will initially work with a senior level specialist under the supervision of the Digital Investigations Manager. A strong background in forensic laboratory practices and procedures, evidence handling and giving evidence in court as an expert witness is essential.

Key Result Areas
• Conduct digital investigations for corporate, law enforcement and defence clients, using industry standard methodologies, tools and techniques.

• Support the Digital Investigations Manager by communicating the progress of all assignments. 

• Follow technical direction from the Digital Investigations Manager regarding the use of validated tools, policies and procedures.

• Produce comprehensive reports of your findings in non-technical jargon free language.

• Attend case conferences and court hearings and present your findings giving expert evidence where appropriate.

Showing Initiative
Influence the company and work with the management of other internal teams to meet commercial and contractual obligations together with client and corporate goals and milestones, ensuring a sensible balance between internal and external stakeholder needs that impact project scope, business value, risk and resource requirements.

NOTE ---- You should carefully work through the ‘Essential Criteria’ listed below ensuring that your application evidences these requirements. Applications that do not meet the essential criteria will not be considered.

Essential Criteria
• An experienced digital investigations practitioner.

• A sound knowledge of the principles contained in the ‘ACPO Good Practice Guide for Digital Evidence’.

• A sound understanding of differing operating systems, Windows, Mac OS, Linux, UNIX etc.

• Excellent knowledge of file systems including FAT, NTFS, HFS, Ext etc.

• Familiar with and have undertaken formal training in one or more computer forensic tools such as EnCase, X-Ways Forensics and/or FTK.

• Must have a solid understanding of information systems security, network architecture, general database concepts, document management, hardware and software troubleshooting, electronic mail systems, such as Microsoft Exchange and Office type applications.

• An understanding of the rules of evidence, expert witness duties and disclosure legislation under CPIA.

• Able to produce written reports of findings in non-technical, jargon free language and be able to present those findings in court if necessary.

• Able to manage multiple concurrent projects and maintain casework with minimal supervision.

• Adopt a methodical, logical approach to casework.

• An understanding of equality and diversity issues within the workplace, particularly those that may relate to digital investigations.

Desirable Criteria
• At least two years of experience in a digital investigations laboratory, military or civilian police field.

• Experienced in the acquisition and analysis of mobile devices.

• PGDip/BSc/MSc in Forensic Computing, Computer Science or related field.

• Proficiency in conducting live analysis and or acquisition on networks, and corporate servers.

• Ability to write EnCase EnScripts/programming skills.

Notes
As the work conducted includes investigations on behalf of law enforcement agencies, you will have to pass an in-depth background check to obtain a security clearance. You will be expected to maintain a high degree of confidentiality and discretion when performing your duties. This includes company confidential policies and procedures as well as material you may come into contact with through the course of your duties.

Due to the nature of digital investigations you will at times be working on cases where you may be viewing material of a disturbing nature, this is a pre-requisite when accepting a Digital Investigations position within my clinet.

The ideal individuals will be personnel who have worked in a similar role within Civvystreet or in the military and would probably come from the Signals or Intelligence branches of the services.

They are offering an attractive starting salary commensurate with experience, together with other generous benefits.