[Remote] Security Engineering Technical Leader

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cisco is a leading technology company revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations. The Security Engineering Technical Lead will design and implement scalable automation and AI-driven solutions to enhance security controls across the organization while collaborating with multiple teams to integrate security policies into development workflows.


Responsibilities

  • Designing and implementing scalable automation and AI-driven tools to enhance security controls, architecture reviews, risk identification, and decision support
  • Partnering with Application Security, Cloud Engineering, Platform teams, and enterprise architects to develop automated security guardrails and integrate security policies into development workflows
  • Ensuring new systems, integrations, and services comply with organizational security standards through automated validation, policy-as-code, and continuous monitoring
  • Building reusable security frameworks, intake processes, and automated validation mechanisms to reduce manual review effort while improving consistency, visibility, and compliance
  • Performing and scaling risk assessments and security architecture reviews for applications, cloud platforms, APIs, and system integrations
  • Collaborating with software development teams to create innovative, automated security solutions that demonstrate measurable business efficiency gains, leveraging AI to address security gaps
  • Quickly adapting to new security challenges, especially related to IaaS platforms, and engaging with lead architects and technical leads through design reviews, pair programming, code reviews, and sharing AI expertise
  • Documenting solutions clearly to support team training and production support personnel

Skills

  • 5+ years of experience in cybersecurity, security engineering, DevSecOps, or application security
  • 3+ years of experience in security automation or software engineering, including scripting or development in languages such as Python, Go, or Java
  • Demonstrated experience automating security controls or processes, such as security assessments, configuration validation, compliance checks, or vulnerability management workflows
  • Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and understanding of cloud security architectures
  • Familiarity with policy-as-code or automation frameworks used to enforce security controls (e.g., OPA, Terraform, IaC scanning tools) and ability to translate security requirements into automated, scalable engineering solutions
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills with the ability to work across engineering, architecture, and security teams
  • Bachelor's, Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Information Security, Engineering, or related field
  • Experience building automated architecture review frameworks or security guardrails
  • Experience with threat modeling or secure design practices
  • Familiarity with AI/LLM frameworks used for automation or analysis
  • Experience building security developer platforms or internal tooling
  • Security certifications such as CISSP, CSSLP, CCSP, or similar

Benefits

  • Medical, dental and vision insurance
  • A 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
  • Paid parental leave
  • Short and long-term disability coverage
  • Basic life insurance
  • 10 paid holidays per full calendar year
  • 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
  • 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday
  • Paid year-end holiday shutdown
  • 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
  • 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year
  • Flexible vacation time off program
  • 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter
  • Up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
  • Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
  • Annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies

Company Overview

  • Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products. It is a sub-organization of Cisco Press. It was founded in 1984, and is headquartered in San Jose, California, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is http://www.cisco.com.

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