Senior DFIR Consultant - Remote (Anywhere in the U.S.)

GuidePoint Security provides trusted cybersecurity expertise, solutions and services that help organizations make better decisions and minimize risk. By taking a three-tiered, holistic approach for evaluating security posture and ecosystems, GuidePoint enables some of the nation’s top organizations, such as Fortune 500 companies and U.S. government agencies, to identify threats, optimize resources and integrate best-fit solutions that mitigate risk.

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.