Cisco FirePower, AMP, and SMA Infrastructure Engineer

Cisco Fire Power, AMP, and SMA Infrastructure Engineer

Location: Suitland, MD

Clearance Required: Active TS/SCI

Leidos is seeking a Cisco Fire Power, AMP, and SMA Infrastructure Engineer in Suitland, MD to deploy and sustain Cisco Fire Power IPS, Cisco AMP Private Cloud, and Cisco SMA appliances supporting intrusion detection, malware defense, and threat analysis across NAVINTEL networks.

If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status 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 at step 30 - and moving faster than anyone else dares.

• Engineer and maintain Fire Power IPS rulesets, policies, logging, and appliance performance.
• Manage AMP agents, malware analysis workflows, and threat intelligence integration.
• Operate SMA for sandboxing and advanced malware analytics.
• Support incident response, tuning, and reporting.

• Bachelor's degree in CS, IT, IA or a related area with 8+ years of experience or a Master’s degree with 6+ years of experience. Additional experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Active TS/SCI security clearance.
• Extensive experience with cyber infrastructure or security tool engineering.
• Demonstrated experience supporting Computer Network Defense (CND) operations and technologies.
• Professional experience designing, developing, integrating, implementing, operating, and analyzing cybersecurity technologies.
• Hands-on experience with Cisco Fire Power, IPS/IDS, malware analysis tools, and network appliances.
• Strong troubleshooting and system engineering background.

• Active IAT or IAM Level II/III DoD approved 8570 baseline certification, such as Security+ CE or CASP certification.

Pay Range $ - $

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and 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.

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.