Forensics Software Engineer with Security Clearance

Experience

• Technical experience in software development with a specialization in digital forensics and forensic tool development. • Expert knowledge of forensic analysis techniques, file systems, data recovery, and evidence handling best practices. • Demonstrated experience in leading the design and architecture of complex forensic software solutions. • Experience addressing the challenges associated with processing and analyzing petabytes of digital evidence from various sources. • Proficiency in .Net programming languages as well as thin client front-end technologies. • Familiarity with forensic standards and protocols, and an ability to ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements for digital evidence handling. • Extensive experience delivering forensic software deployed in the commercial cloud and capable of distributed processing. • Experience leading multidisciplinary teams and managing projects that span software development, cybersecurity, and IT infrastructure. • Experienced strategic planner, with a demonstrated ability to set a vision for a forensic toolkit's development and ensure alignment with organizational mission and goals.
• Strong communication skills; must be able to articulate complex technical issues to a non-technical audience, including law enforcement officers, analysts, and government officials.

Responsibilities

• Act as a subject matter expert for forensic tool portions of the MXU code base and provide senior level design guidance while leading a team of developers to implement new features and resolve software issues. • Lead the design, development and analysis of customer operational and application systems; • Lead the maintenance efforts of MXU, including system enhancements, bug fixes, and security enhancements; • Integrate bug fixes, security enhancements and new capabilities as approved by the government. • Deliver forensic tool builds using agile processes to deliver incremental builds based upon agreed upon MXU requirements • Develop mechanism to seamlessly share results with other MXU applications using common databases, schemas and object storage methods.
• Develop intuited interfaces to exploit and discover relationships between multiple collections of data stored across multiple databases. • Establish and maintain an Application Programming Interface to enforce backwards compatibility with original source and streamline development and integration of new functional modules. • Assess and ensure software performance and reliability for all software modules and components including analytical and databases processes. • Integrate new data types and analytic tools, techniques, and methodologies for seized media. • Deploy and maintain software and hardware within customer environments. • Deploy/maintain forensic tool deployments within all MXU designated development and operational environments, including ensuring the tool remains consistent with all policies, procedures, and requirements.