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Attack Surface Management Security Engineer II (Full-Time) – United States

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3 days ago
Durham, NC, USASenior
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Base Salary

$112k - $203k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Perform asset discovery, vulnerability scanning, exposure assessments, and validation across hybrid enterprise and cloud environments.
  • Review and prioritize security findings based on severity and exposure context, then coordinate remediation with asset owners.
  • Build scripts and automated data integrations to streamline security data collection and reporting.
  • Use ticketing platforms, monitoring dashboards, and metric reports to support security operations and team reviews.
  • Collaborate with security engineers and engineering teams to develop detection capabilities and improve security practices.

Requirements

  • Meet one education and experience pathway: a master’s degree with 0 years of work experience; a bachelor’s degree with 2 years; an associate’s degree, apprenticeship, boot camp, or certification with 3 years; or a high school diploma or equivalent with 4 years.
  • Have qualifying education and work experience in cybersecurity, information security, computer science, computer engineering, information technology, or a related field.
  • Have experience with vulnerability scanning, discovery pipelines, exposure assessments, and validation evidence across hybrid environments.
  • Have experience prioritizing security findings, tracking remediation workflows, and collaborating with asset owners.
  • Have practical experience with security workflow scripting, ticketing platforms, operational monitoring dashboards, and metric reporting.
  • Preferred: industry-recognized security certifications such as CompTIA Security+, CySA+, CEH, GIAC certifications, or Cisco Certified Network Associate.
  • Preferred: familiarity with cloud security configurations and exposure management across Amazon Cloud, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
  • Preferred: experience reviewing network telemetry, DNS records, TLS certificates, and HTTP headers.
  • Preferred: experience building automated data integrations or dashboards with tools such as Splunk, Tableau, Power BI, or Grafana.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with Cisco matching contributions, paid parental leave, disability coverage, and basic life insurance, subject to plan eligibility.
  • Employees may be eligible for Cisco restricted stock unit grants and annual bonuses for non-sales roles.
  • Paid holidays, floating holidays, birthday leave, year-end shutdown, personal wellness days, vacation or flexible time off, and sick time.
  • Up to 10 paid volunteer days per year and additional paid time away for critical family or emergency issues.
  • This is a full-time United States role; the posting is for potential future openings and applications are accepted until further notice.

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10,000+ employees

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.

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