3 days ago
Base Salary
$203k - $259k/yr
Responsibilities
- Drive a shift-left security strategy across the software development lifecycle.
- Lead compliance efforts, audit coordination, evidence collection, control adherence, and security assurance.
- Perform security architecture reviews, threat modeling, and adversarial red teaming for internal products.
- Create and maintain an organizational risk register and advise leadership on risk-based decisions.
- Operationalize vulnerability management, severity-based SLAs, exception handling, and developer remediation improvements.
- Secure runtime workloads, cloud infrastructure, and Infrastructure as Code for AI products.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field plus 7 years of experience, or a master’s degree plus 4 years, or a PhD plus 1 year of related experience.
- At least 2 years of experience using AI agents for security testing and evaluations against code and deployed systems.
- Experience with shift-left security, SAST/DAST integration into CI pipelines, and Prisma Cloud, Wiz, or similar CNAPP tools.
- Experience operationalizing vulnerability management, including severity-based SLAs and exception handling.
- Experience securing runtime workloads and cloud infrastructure, including CADR, XDR, CWPP, or similar technology.
- Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure and securing Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and Helm.
- CISSP or another ISC2 certification is strongly preferred.
Benefits
- Starting salary range is $203,000 to $258,600, with location-specific ranges also provided for certain U.S. states and metro areas.
- Benefits may include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) with Cisco matching, paid parental leave, disability coverage, life insurance, paid holidays, vacation or flexible time off, sick time, wellness days, volunteer days, and annual bonuses.
- Employees may be eligible for Cisco restricted stock unit grants.
- The application window is expected to close on December 30, 2026.
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About Cisco
Cisco designs and sells networking, security, and collaboration platforms for enterprises, service providers, and governments, spanning routers and switches, Wi‑Fi, firewalls, zero‑trust, observability, and cloud-managed IT (Meraki) plus Webex. Its business model mixes hardware, software subscriptions, and support/consulting services. Founded in 1984 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Cisco is a public company traded on Nasdaq and serves customers across data centers, campuses, and service provider networks.