Firewall Engineering Architect
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Job Location:
Huntsville, AL - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 89700 - 162150
Posted on:
5 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Leidos is seeking an experienced Firewall Engineering Architect to provide senior-level technical leadership architectural oversight and strategic direction for NASAs enterprise security and network modernization initiatives. This role is central to designing evolving and optimizing the firewall security and perimeter protection services that safeguard NASAs Local Area Network (LAN) Wide Area Network (WAN) Mission Network and cloud-connected environments.
The selected candidate will serve as the lead architect for NASAs Firewall Engineering domain guiding a highly skilled team responsible for advanced security design migration planning policy development and the integration of next-generation firewall technologies across NASAs enterprise. This position requires deep technical expertise in firewall and network security engineering strong leadership capabilities and the ability to collaborate 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 integration.
- Define NASAs enterprise firewall architecture strategy ensuring alignment with zero-trust mission-security and risk management requirements.
- Serve as the senior technical authority and escalation point for complex firewall perimeter security and cross-domain protection issues.
- Develop modernization roadmaps and standards for firewall performance resiliency rule/policy lifecycle management and automation.
- Oversee large-scale firewall migrations data center and cloud integrations and enterprise segmentation initiatives.
- Partner with NASA and Leidos leadership to support proposals technical volumes and Basis of Estimates (BOEs) related to security architecture efforts.
- Drive innovation in areas such as firewall automation orchestration SDN-based security cloud-native firewalls and threat visibility enhancements.
- Establish governance processes for rule validation configuration baselines policy stewardship and continuous monitoring.
- Mentor engineers establish training pipelines and promote technical rigor and standardization across the Firewall Engineering discipline.
- Deliver data-driven technical briefings and executive-level recommendations to NASA and Leidos senior management.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in Engineering Computer Science Cybersecurity or a related field (Masters preferred).
- 1215 years of experience in enterprise network security or firewall engineering with 810 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-generation firewall platforms (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 segmentation strategies.
- Demonstrated ability to lead multidisciplinary engineering teams in complex high-visibility operational environments.
- Experience supporting large IT infrastructure programs including proposal development and BOE creation.
- Excellent communication leadership and stakeholder engagement skills.
- U.S. Citizenship required; must be eligible for NASA or Federal security clearance.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting government aerospace or NASA environments.
- Industry certifications such as CISSP CCNP Security JNCIS/JNCIP Security PCNSE or equivalent.
- Familiarity with cloud security architecture cloud-native firewalls and SDN-based security models.
- Experience leading geographically distributed engineering or security teams.
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Original Posting:
November 24 2025For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.
Pay Range:
Pay Range $89700.00 - $162150.00The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job education experience knowledge skills and abilities as well as internal equity alignment with market data applicable bargaining agreement (if any) or other law.
Key Skills
- React Native
- AI
- Enterprise Software
- React
- Node.js
- Redis
- AWS
- Software Development
- IOS
- Team Management
- Product Development
- Mobile Applications
About Company
Leidos is an innovation company rapidly addressing the world's most vexing challenges in national security and health. Our 47,000 employees collaborate to create smarter technology solutions for customers in these critical markets.
