Network Security Engineer

**Job Title: Network Security Engineer** **Location:** Remote (Candidates must be local to Austin, TX) **Duration:** 12 Months Long Term **Position Overview:** We are seeking a Network Security Engineer to support advanced network security operations and analyze security infrastructure within a leading cybersecurity environment. **Responsibilities:** - Engineer, maintain, and tune SIEM platforms and detection content. - Configure and optimize IDS/IPS technologies, including signature development and false-positive reduction. - Perform packet capture analysis and network traffic analysis to identify malicious activity. - Support SOC operations by providing detection engineering, log onboarding, and data normalization. - Develop and maintain network security monitoring infrastructure and orchestration workflows. ** :** - 5+ years of SOC operations experience. - 5+ years of hands-on experience with IDS/IPS platforms such as Cisco Firepower and TippingPoint, including signature tuning and threat detection. - 5+ years of advanced packet capture (pcap) and network analysis skills using Corelight, NetWitness, and CRIBL pipelines. - 5+ years of experience maintaining and tuning EDR platforms like CrowdStrike Falcon and SentinelOne. - 5+ years of threat intelligence application expertise.