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The Network Security Tools Engineer joins the cybersecurity team to support security technologies and infrastructure providing visibility, monitoring, detection, and protection across a mission critical enterprise environment. The engineer will perform administration, engineering, optimization, integration, and troubleshooting of enterprise network security tools and platforms. Daily responsibilities include deploying, configuring, and maintaining systems such as SIEM, firewalls, proxy servers, packet capture solutions, IDS/IPS, and endpoint security. The role requires monitoring tool health, data ingestion, and performance while collaborating with Security Operations Center teams to tune detection capabilities and reduce false positives. Required skills include networking concepts like TCP/IP and DNS, along with experience using Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, Elastic, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, Wireshark, and SteelCloud on Linux and Windows operating systems.