The application window is expected to close on: 12/30/2026 Meet the Team
The Platform and Security team within Cisco’s AI Software and Platform Group designs and operates the infrastructure that powers Cisco’s AI powered offerings, including Cisco Cloud Control, AI Defense, and AI Canvas. Within this team, the Observability Engineering group provides the metrics, traces, and logs needed to keep these services observable and ensure the most important workflows are continuously monitored. You’ll partner across the AI Software and Platform group to set observability standards, deliver platform solutions, and raise the bar for what “great” looks like in production reliability. What’s exciting: you’ll help build an agentic observability outcome where health insights can be surfaced faster and more intelligently than traditional dashboards and alerts.
Your Impact
Cisco is looking for a highly experienced security-focused DevSecOps practitioner to join a team and improve the security outcomes of its core AI products. In this role as a lead engineer, you will bring your broad background in information security, DevOps practices, software development, and knowledge of compliance, and uplifting the organization’s security posture. In specific, you will:
Drive a shift-left security strategy, ensuring security is baked into every aspect of the SDLC
Lead compliance efforts by working with internal and external audit teams; providing evidence; ensuring adherence to controls; and being a point person for security assurance
Perform security architecture reviews, lead threat modeling exercises, do adversarial red teaming on internal products, and ultimately help ship secure-by-design products
Create and maintain a risk register within the organization, providing guidance on a risk-based approach to decision making for the leadership team
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering (or related field) + 7 years of experience, Masters + 4 years of related experience, or PhD + 1 year of related experience.
2+ years of experience with AI Agents to perform security testing and evaluations against code and deployed systems.
Experience in shift-left security experience, including integrating SAST/DAST into CI pipelines, with knowledge of Prisma Cloud, Wiz, or similar CNAPP tools required.
Experience operationalizing vulnerability management, including setting and meeting severity-based SLAs/exception handling and reducing developer remediation friction.
Experience securing runtime workloads and cloud infrastructure, including prior rollout of CADR/XDR/CWPP (or similar) plus experience in AWS/GCP/Azure and ability to secure Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Helm).
Preferred Qualifications
CISSP or other ISC2 certification strongly preferred
Why Cisco?
At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.
Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.
We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.
Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:
The starting salary range posted for this position is $203,000.00 to $258,600.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits.
Individual pay is determined by the candidate's…