Digital Evidence Specialist

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Assessment accommodation

***When submitting an application to this selection process, you will be prompted to answer screening questions concerning the essential education, and the essential and asset experience qualifications. It is your responsibility to provide clear and concrete examples in your responses to each question and to ensure the content of your response are supported by your resume. Your responses to these questions will be used as a primary source of information and your resume may only be used to validate this information. Failing to do so could result in your application being rejected.***

When recording your examples be sure to:
• Provide concrete, specific examples of actions that speak directly to the experience sought.
• Choose examples with sufficient complexity, impact and degree of difficulty that will allow you to illustrate to what extent and depth you have shown the behaviours expected for each qualification.
• Focus on what you did. In referring to an experience achieved in the context of a team, set your role apart from the role(s) of others.
• Please describe the achievements in the past tense. This will help to ensure that you are providing concrete examples, rather than making general statements (e.g. instead of saying “I work well within a team….” you can say “I worked well with a team when….”).
• Use action verbs when describing your experience i.e. lead, managed, organized, planned, prepared, informed, determined, etc.
• Provide all examples in sentence format.
• Each example must include when the example took place, background of each situation, what you did, how you did it, what your role was in the situation, and what was the outcome.

Intent of the process

Intent to fill one (1) permanent position in Winnipeg, Manitoba. A qualified pool of candidates may be established and may be used to staff this position or similar positions or for future term, acting, assignment, secondment, deployment, or indeterminate opportunities.

Should a Civilian Member (CM) be found qualified and selected for appointment, the appointment will not result in a change of status to the Public Service (PS) category for the CM. Information regarding the CM appointment will be sent to all applicable candidates who are within the area of selection and participated in the advertised process.

Positions to be filled: 1

Information you must provide

Your résumé.

In order to be considered, your application must clearly explain how you meet the following (essential qualifications)

Successful completion of two years of an acceptable* post-secondary educational program in computer science, information technology, information management or another specialty relevant to the position to be staffed.
*Acceptable: Suitable for a position as determined by the manager unless otherwise regulated by the employer.
Note: Proof of education will be required prior to appointment.

Degree equivalency

Experience extracting and conducting analysis of electronic data.

Experience building, maintaining, repairing and upgrading personal and networked computer hardware

Experience troubleshooting and/or problem solving with at least three of the following operating system platforms: Android, iOS, Windows, Linux or Macintosh.

Experience preparing technical reports.

If you possess any of the following, your application must also clearly explain how you meet it (other qualifications)

A Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) A+ Certification or industry equivalent

A CompTIA Network+ Certification or industry equivalent

Degree equivalency

Experience in the application of forensic techniques and software applications designed for data analysis, such as password decryption, file systems recovery and extraction.

Experience conducting reverse engineering on various data storage devices such as handheld PCs, cell phones, and networked and standalone computers to circumvent cryptographic/electronic security measures for decoding encrypted passwords and retrieving relevant data.

Experience using forensic tool suites.

The following will be applied / assessed at a later date (essential for the job)

English essential

Information on language requirements

Knowledge of information technology fundamentals

Ability to communicate effectively orally
Ability to communicate effectively in writing
Ability to plan and organize work

Demonstrating integrity and respect
Thinking things through
Working effectively with others
Showing initiative and being action-oriented
Dependability

The following may be applied / assessed at a later date (may be needed for the job)

Knowledge of the procedures used to document and preserve the integrity of evidence or exhibits.

Conditions of employment

Top Secret security clearance

Willingness and ability to work flexible hours, overtime, on-call or on short notice, on evenings and weekends, and/or on a shift schedule.

Willingness and ability to be exposed to subject matter and/or material of investigations, which may be difficult to deal with.

May be required to work in adverse, unsanitary and sometimes hostile environments while assisting with the collection of digital evidence.

Willingness and ability to travel for work and/or training purposes using various modes of transportation (including owned or leased government transport, commercial and light aircraft and up to and including remote locations).

Willingness and ability to provide expert testimony in court.

Participation in the Technological Crime Understudy Program.

Possession of a valid driver’s license.

Other information

The Public Service of Canada is committed to building a skilled and diverse workforce that reflects the Canadians we serve. We promote employment equity and encourage you to indicate if you belong to one of the designated groups when you apply.

Information on employment equity

Communication for this process will only be sent via email. As the applicant, it is your responsibility to ensure accurate contact information is provided and that you inform our office via email of any updates as required. Ensure you include an email address you can access from home and that it accepts email from unknown users. You are strongly encouraged to check your email on a regular basis, including your junk mail folder.

An exam may be administered. An interview may be administered. Reference checks may be sought.

All communication relating to this process, including e-mail correspondence and responses to screening questions, may be used in the assessment of qualifications, including the ability to communicate effectively in writing.

All applicants for positions within the Royal Canadian Mounted Police will be subject to a thorough security clearance process which includes an interview wherein questions may include (but not limited to), reference checks, previous employment, on-line activities, credit checks, alcohol and/or drug use.

External candidates may be eligible for the initial appointment relocation entitlement of up to $5000 if they are not currently a federal public service employee.

Preference

Preference will be given to veterans first and then to Canadian citizens and permanent residents, with the exception of a job located in Nunavut, where Nunavut Inuit will be appointed first.

Information on the preference to veterans

We thank all those who apply. Only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.