Firewall Engineering Architect

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Summary: Leidos is seeking an experienced Firewall Engineering Architect to provide senior-level technical leadership and architectural oversight for NASA’s enterprise security and network modernization initiatives. Highlights: 1. Lead architect for NASA’s Firewall Engineering domain 2. Guide advanced security design and integration for NASA’s enterprise 3. Drive innovation in firewall automation and cloud-native firewalls Apply Now Description Leidos is seeking an experienced Firewall Engineering Architect to provide senior-level technical leadership, architectural oversight, and stregic direction for NASA’s enterprise security and network modernizion initiives. This role is central to designing, evolving, and optimizing the firewall, security, and perimeter protection services th safeguard NASA’s Local Area Network (LAN), Wide Area Network (WAN), Mission Network, and cloud-connected environments. The selected candide will serve as the lead architect for NASA’s Firewall Engineering domain, guiding a highly skilled team responsible for advanced security design, migrion planning, policy development, and the integrion of next-generion firewall technologies across NASA’s enterprise. This position requires deep technical expertise in firewall and network security engineering, strong leadership capabilities, and the ability to collabore effectively with NASA senior leadership, program management, cybersecurity leads, and cross-functional engineering teams. Key Responsibilities Lead the Firewall Engineering Architecture Team, providing technical direction for enterprise firewall, IDS/IPS, and security control design and integrion. Define NASA’s enterprise firewall architecture stregy, ensuring alignment with zero-trust, mission-security, and risk management requirements. Serve as the senior technical authority and escalion point for complex firewall, perimeter security, and cross-domain protection issues. Develop modernizion roadmaps and standards for firewall performance, resiliency, rule/policy lifecycle management, and automion. Oversee large-scale firewall migrions, da center and cloud integrions, and enterprise segmention initiives. Partner with NASA and Leidos leadership to support proposals, technical volumes, and Basis of Estimes (BOEs) reled to security architecture efforts. Drive innovion in areas such as firewall automion, orchestrion, SDN-based security, cloud-nive firewalls, and thre visibility enhancements. Establish governance processes for rule validion, configurion baselines, policy stewardship, and continuous monitoring. Mentor engineers, establish training pipelines, and promote technical rigor and standardizion across the Firewall Engineering discipline. Deliver da-driven technical briefings and executive-level recommendions to NASA and Leidos senior management.​ Basic Qualificions Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a reled field (Master’s preferred). 8–12+ years of experience in enterprise network security or firewall engineering, with 8–10+ years serving in senior engineering, architectural, or leadership roles. Proven experience designing and managing large-scale, mission-critical firewall and perimeter security infrastructures. Deep expertise with next-generion firewall plforms (e.g., Palo Alto, Fortinet, Cisco, Juniper) and enterprise-grade security services. Strong understanding of network architecture, routing/switching, zero-trust principles, intrusion detection/prevention, and segmention stregies. Demonstred ability to lead multidisciplinary engineering teams in complex, high-visibility operional environments. Experience supporting large IT infrastructure programs, including proposal development and BOE creion. Excellent communicion, leadership, and stakeholder engagement skills. U.S. Citizenship required; must be eligible for NASA or Federal security clearance. Preferred Qualificions Experience supporting government, aerospace, or NASA environments. Industry certificions such as CISSP, CCNP Security, JNCIS/JNCIP Security, PCNSE, or equivalent. Familiarity with cloud security architecture, cloud-nive firewalls, and SDN-based security models. Experience leading geographically distributed engineering or security teams. #HotJobs If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the stus quo — because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares. Original Posting: February 6, 2026 For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipes th this job requisition will remain open for least 3 days with an anticiped close de of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting de as listed above. Pay Range: Pay Range $92,300.00 - $166,850.00 The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compension or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, educion, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market da, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law. About Leidos Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovions. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximely $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more informion, visit www.Leidos.com. Pay and Benefits Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. Th's why we craft compension packages th reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compension, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available www.leidos.com/careers/pay-benefits. Securing Your Da Beware of fake employment opportunities using Leidos’ name. Leidos will never ask you to provide payment-reled informion during any part of the employment applicion process (i.e., ask you for money), nor will Leidos ever advance money as part of the hiring process (i.e., send you a check or money order before doing any work). 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