About Agile Defense

At Agile Defense we know that action defines the outcome and new challenges require new solutions. That’s why we always look to the future and embrace change with an unmovable spirit and the courage to build for what comes next.

Our vision is to bring adaptive innovation to support our nation's most important missions through the seamless integration of advanced technologies, elite minds, and unparalleled agility—leveraging a foundation of speed, flexibility, and ingenuity to strengthen and protect our nation’s vital interests.

Title: Digital Forensics Lead (CBP)

Clearance: Active Top Secret with SCI Eligibility. Ability to obtain and maintain a CBP Background Investigation (CBP BI) and EOD, active BI strongly preferred. We can begin processing for candidates who do not hold one.

Citizenship: U.S. Citizenship required

Location: Reston, VA - Hybrid 3 to 5 days

Salary Range: $155,000-175,000

The Role

U.S. Customs and Border Protection runs continuous operations across more than 300 land, air, and sea ports of entry, plus Border Patrol stations and the Air and Marine Operations Center. When something happens on a system supporting that mission, whether it is a confirmed intrusion, an insider case, or an incident that is still being scoped, the question everyone eventually asks is the same: what actually happened, and can you prove it. Getting that answer right, in a way that holds up, is what this role exists to do. You lead digital forensics for this program. You will preserve and analyze evidence from compromised or suspect systems, reconstruct what happened, and produce findings the incident response, threat hunt, and insider threat monitoring leads can act on and that can support disciplinary, legal, or law enforcement action when it comes to that. One thing is worth knowing before you apply. A forensic finding that cannot survive scrutiny is worse than no finding at all, because someone will have already acted on it. Chain of custody and defensible process are not paperwork here. They are the difference between a finding that holds and one that does not.

What Success Looks Like

Objective 1: Preserve evidence well enough that findings hold up under scrutiny

Evidence handling follows chain of custody every time, not only when a case looks like it will matter.

Your process would survive being challenged by someone whose job is to find the flaw in it.

Nothing you needed for an analysis is missing because it was not preserved in time.

⠀Objective 2: Reconstruct what actually happened, not just what is easy to prove

Your analysis answers the question that was actually asked, not the version of it that was easiest to investigate.

Where evidence is ambiguous, you say so rather than rounding up to a conclusion the evidence does not fully support.

Timelines you build reconcile activity across systems rather than describing one system in isolation.

⠀Objective 3: Deliver findings other teams and outside parties can actually use

Incident response, threat hunt, and insider threat monitoring get findings framed for what they need to act, not a raw technical dump.

Findings that support disciplinary, legal, or law enforcement action are documented to the standard those processes require.

You can explain a technical finding to a non-technical decision maker without losing what matters about it.

⠀Objective 4: Build a forensics capability that gets faster and more reliable over time

Case types that recur get a faster, more consistent process each time, not reinvestigated from scratch.

Tooling and technique choices get reviewed against what actually worked in real cases.

Lessons from a case change the program's practice, not just that one investigation.

What You Bring

Minimum required experience

Candidates will have a minimum of seven (7) years of professional experience with a solid understanding of incident response, insider threat investigations, digital forensics, and cyber threats.

A minimum of five (5) years of hands-on experience with experience in the last two (2) years that includes bare metal, cloud or virtual system-based and network-based security monitoring, identifying and analyzing anomalous activities with familiarity in insider threat monitoring software, endpoint forensic tools, intrusion detection systems, intrusion analysis functions, security information event management (SIEM) platforms, endpoint detection and response tools, security operations ticket management.

Our Core Values

Employees of Agile Defense are our number one priority, and the importance we place on our culture here is fundamental. Our culture is alive and evolving, but it always stays true to its roots. Here, you are valued as a family member, and we believe that we can accomplish great things together. Agile Defense has been highly successful in the past few years due to our employees and the culture we create together.

What makes us Agile? We call it the 6Hs, the values that define our culture and guide everything we do. Together, these values infuse vibrancy, integrity, and a tireless work ethic into advancing the most important national security and critical civilian missions. It's how we show up every day. It's who we are.

Happy - Be Infectious. Happiness multiplies and creates a positive and connected environment where motivation and satisfaction have an outsized effect on everything we do.

Helpful - Be Supportive. Being helpful is the foundation of teamwork, resulting in a supportive atmosphere where collaboration flourishes, and collective success is celebrated.

Honest - Be Trustworthy.Honesty serves as our compass, ensuring transparent communication and ethical conduct, essential to who we are and the complex domains we support.

Humble - Be Grounded.Success is not achieved alone, humility ensures a culture of mutual respect, encouraging open communication, and a willingness to learn from one another and take on any task.

Hungry - Be Eager.Our hunger for excellence drives an insatiable appetite for innovation and continuous improvement, propelling us forward in the face of new and unprecedented challenges.

Hustle - Be Driven.Hustle is reflected in our relentless work ethic, where we are each committed to going above and beyond to advance the mission and achieve success.

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