Job Description

Leidos is seeking an experienced Firewall Engineering Manager to lead a team of security and network engineers responsible for designing implementing and maintaining NASAs enterprise firewall and perimeter security infrastructure. This role provides hands-on technical leadership operational oversight and strategic direction to ensure the security resilience and reliability of NASAs Local Area Networks (LAN) Wide Area Networks (WAN) Mission Networks and cloud-connected environments.

The selected candidate will manage the Firewall Engineering Team and serve as a key technical authority for enterprise firewall operations modernization initiatives migration planning and the integration of next-generation security technologies. This position requires strong leadership skills deep expertise in firewall and network security engineering and the ability to collaborate effectively with NASA leadership cybersecurity teams program managers and cross-domain engineering groups.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the Firewall Engineering Team providing oversight for enterprise firewall IDS/IPS and perimeter security system design implementation and operations.
• Implement NASAs firewall and perimeter security strategy in alignment with zero-trust principles mission requirements and cybersecurity frameworks.
• Serve as the senior escalation point for complex firewall policy and cross-domain security issues.
• Develop and maintain firewall standards configuration baselines rule governance processes and lifecycle management practices.
• Oversee enterprise firewall migrations data center and cloud integrations segmentation initiatives and modernization efforts.
• Support proposal development and Basis of Estimates (BOEs) related to firewall engineering and security architecture.
• Drive improvements in automation orchestration change control and monitoring to enhance security and operational efficiency.
• Ensure compliance with NASA Federal and organizational security policies and directives.
• Mentor and develop engineering staff fostering technical growth and operational excellence.
• Deliver technical briefings reports and recommendations to NASA and Leidos leadership.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Engineering Computer Science Cybersecurity or a related technical field (Masters preferred).
• 1012 years of experience in network security or firewall engineering including 5 years in a technical leadership or management role.
• Proven experience managing or supporting large-scale mission-critical firewall and perimeter security infrastructures.
• Strong expertise with next-generation firewall platforms (e.g. Palo Alto Fortinet Cisco Juniper).
• Solid understanding of routing/switching concepts intrusion detection/prevention segmentation and zero-trust security.
• Demonstrated ability to lead engineering teams in complex high-visibility environments.
• Experience supporting large infrastructure programs including proposal development and BOEs.
• Excellent communication leadership and stakeholder engagement skills.
• U.S. Citizenship required; must be eligible for a NASA or Federal security clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting government aerospace or NASA environments.
• Relevant industry certifications (e.g. CISSP CCNP Security PCNSE JNCIS/JNCIP Security).
• Experience with cloud networking cloud-native firewall solutions or SDN-based security models.
• Experience managing geographically dispersed engineering teams.

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Original Posting:

For 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:

The 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.

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