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Digital Forensics Investigator

Job Group: Compliance, Legal, and Protection
Job Subgroup: Protective Services
Salary Range (Annual): 21: $56,112-104,368
Employee Category: Academic Staff
Job Code: CP029
  • Job Summary:
    Combines computer science with forensic skills to recover information from computers and storage devices by conducting authorized and/or court-ordered computer searches and seizures. Assists law enforcement officers with cyber crimes and retrieval of evidence and reviews, documents, analyzes, and reports on digital evidence.
  • Job Responsibilities:
    • Conducts authorized and/or court ordered computer searches and seizures
    • Retrieves, reviews, and analyzes digital evidence and other electronic devices such as laptops, desktop computers, mobile devices, tablets, and various types of digital storage devices
    • Establishes and preserves the chain of custody of digital evidence to ensure its integrity
    • Logs and secures digital and physical extracted property
    • Assists internal and external law enforcement agencies by providing digital discovery as it relates to investigative findings
    • Testifies in departmental hearings and court appearances and prepares and presents detailed investigative reports to departmental or university leadership
  • Education:
    Bachelor's Degree Preferred Minimum
  • FLSA Status:
    Exempt
  • Institution Job:
    No
  • Required Supervisory Duty of at Least 2.0 Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Employees:
    No
  • Employee Category:
    Academic Staff
  • Scaled Job:
    No
  • Salary Range (Annual):
    21: $56,112-104,368
  • Job Code:
    CP029: Digital Forensics Investigator

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