# Senior DFIR Specialist

At DEFEND, our dream is to improve everyday life by creating a cyber resilient world. We’re looking for an Senior DFIR Specialist to support organisations through their most critical cyber moments. You will investigate major incident response engagements, proactively hunt for threats that evade existing controls, and conduct compromise assessments that surface hidden intrusion before it escalates. This role is both a frontline specialist during active incidents and a recognised subject matter expert for customers and DEFEND colleagues alike. You will be trusted to lead complex investigations end to end, drive recovery with clarity and precision, and strengthen cyber resilience in the face of evolving threats. In this role you'll... Lead the technical side of investigations during major incidents, working alongside the Incident Lead from initial triage through containment and secure recovery. Get hands-on with forensic analysis across endpoints, cloud and identity, owning evidence collection and timeline reconstruction to a defensible standard. Hunt for what others have missed, using threat intelligence and adversary behaviour to scope compromise, uncover threats that have bypassed

- **Id**: 4216252
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/defend-senior-dfir-specialist>
- **Role**: Security
- **Role family**: Security
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Wellington, New Zealand, Auckland, New Zealand
- **Countries**: NZ
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T02:51:32Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T02:51:32Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5444
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Health insurance, Home office, Hybrid work, Insurance coverage
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Cybersecurity, Information Security, Incident Response

## Company

- **Id**: 50129
- **Name**: DEFEND
- **Domain**: defend.co.nz
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/defend>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workable

## Technologies

- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **SIEM** — Optional: no
- **Windows** — Optional: no
- **Eric Zimmerman Tools** — Optional: yes
- **KAPE** — Optional: yes
- **Microsoft Entra ID** — Optional: yes
- **PowerShell** — Optional: yes
- **Python** — Optional: yes
- **Velociraptor** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **New Zealand** — Iso: NZ; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T02:51:32Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 26
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T04:58:53Z

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