Digital Forensics & Incident Response, Vice President -Cybersecurity Operations

Shape the future of cybersecurity through advanced digital forensics, contributing to firm-wide innovation and security.

As a Digital Forensics Vice President in Cybersecurity & Tech Controls, you will enhance the firm's cybersecurity posture through the collection, preservation, and examination of digital evidence. You will be required to conduct digital forensic investigations in support of Human Resources/Employee Relations, Legal, Compliance, Cybersecurity, and Global Security. Additionally, DFIR is responsible for examining post-exploitation artifacts across JPMC digital assets with a focus toward extracting and sharing Indicators of Compromise (IoCs) or details of control gaps in support of live incidents, post-incident investigations, or internal investigations. You will lead complex, large-scale post-incident investigations, leveraging advanced network forensics, malware reverse engineering, log analysis, timeline creation, and host-based forensics to investigate and assess cybersecurity incidents.

Job responsibilities:

. Demonstrate a deep understanding of digital forensic tools and techniques used to support internal fraud and employee investigations.

. Uses enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate evidence triage and investigative reporting, validating outputs and handling data according to sensitivity and security requirements.

. Demonstrate a deep understanding of incident response forensics and root cause analysis.

. Use of host-based and network forensic capabilities to develop information regarding IOCs and TTPs for threat actors and malware, which can be shared amongst other internal teams.

. Leverage practical experience to develop methodologies for proactive hunting of threat actors in the absence of alerting or rules-based appliances.

. Conduct detailed analysis of systems where breaches of critical IT infrastructure may have occurred and provide root cause analysis, impact assessments and rapid response to aid detection of those responsible and make recommendations to assist prevention of similar incidents.

. Experience preparing in-depth investigation reports into forensic investigations, breach reports, privacy incidents and data exposure type cases.

. Assisting with the development of in-house training programs to ensure world class high-tech investigation standards.

. Leads reuse-first adoption of AI-assisted workflows for forensic procedures and audit readiness, ensuring traceability/auditability and defensible outcomes aligned to security and operational risk expectations.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

. Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Data Science, or related disciplines.

. 5+ years of experience working in the computer forensics, cybercrime investigations, and other related technical fields with a combination of both public and private sector experience.

. Demonstrated experience using enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to support digital forensics and incident response workflows with strong validation habits and awareness of data sensitivity.

. Ability to review and validate AI-assisted investigative findings and recommendations before use, escalating when uncertain and ensuring defensibility and auditability expectations are met.

. Proven experience in live digital forensics, log and network forensics, investigating data compromise events, and analyzing network protocols and packet data.

. Expert knowledge of computer forensic best practices and industry standard methodologies for investigating host-based and network analysis.

. Experience working with industry standard tools (X-Ways, EnCase, Volatility, Rekall, Wireshark, SIFT, Cellebrite, etc.)

. Ability to independently or collaboratively conduct complex forensic examinations and clearly articulate and visually present investigation findings and analytical results to relevant stakeholders.

. Strong attention to detail in conducting forensic analysis combined with an ability to accurately record full documentation in support of the investigation.

. The ability to coordinate, work with and gain the trust of business stakeholders to achieve a desired objective.

. Ability to communicate effectively with business representatives in explaining forensic findings clearly and where necessary, in layman's terms.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

. Experience with malware reverse engineering is a plus.

. Industry standard digital forensics certifications (GCFA, GNFA, GCFE, CFCE, etc.) are a plus.

. Industry standard information security technology certifications (GCIH, GREM, etc.) are a plus.

. Ability to automate tasks using a scripting language (Python, Perl, Ruby, Bash, etc.) is a plus.

To apply for this position, please use the following URL:

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