Meet the Team
Join the Cisco Secure Access team building the Cisco AI Agent Gateway, a distributed, highly available platform that enables AI agents to securely connect to MCP servers, LLM providers, and enterprise tool APIs. We combine distributed systems, network security, proxy, cloud, and AI expertise to deliver identity-aware access, policy enforcement, observability, and auditability at scale.
Your Impact
Own quality end to end for secure Agent Gateway services, from test strategy and automation through release validation and post-deployment verification. You will test application, proxy, network, container, and dependency boundaries, diagnose complex failures, and improve release confidence using strong networking, security, LLM, and MCP knowledge.
- Own risk-based quality planning, end-to-end coverage, automation strategy, exit criteria, deployment validation, release readiness, and communication of residual risk.
- Design and automate component, API, integration, end-to-end, performance, security, resilience, and production-readiness tests in GitHub and Jenkins pipelines.
- Validate control-plane and data-plane behavior under latency, concurrency, retries, timeouts, backpressure, dependency degradation, failover, recovery, capacity, and rollback.
- Test TCP, UDP, TLS/mTLS, DNS, routing, load balancing, policy enforcement, HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, HTTP/3, and QUIC using protocol-level and packet-level diagnostics.
- Validate MCP clients and servers, authentication, authorization, tool invocation, streaming, sessions, and safe agent workflows; drive cross-component defects through verified closure.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 to 12 years of quality or software engineering experience, including end-to-end testing and automation ownership for distributed, networking, security, proxy, or cloud services.
- Hands-on Golang and/or Python test automation for APIs, services, and end-to-end workflows, including CI/CD integration and Linux or container diagnostics.
- Experience testing L4/L7 proxy behavior, TCP/IP, DNS, TLS/mTLS, HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, status codes, load balancing, packet analysis, and connection troubleshooting.
- Experience testing secure-access, ZTNA, SSE, or comparable products and validating OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, tenant isolation, authorization, and policy enforcement.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience validating Envoy, H2O, xDS, custom filters, API gateways, service meshes, or comparable high-performance proxy platforms.
- Experience testing Kubernetes services and AWS deployments, including diagnostics, connectivity, scaling, deployment safety, and recovery.
- Experience with traffic generation, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, tracing, chaos testing, load testing, or production traffic analysis.
- Practical knowledge of LLM workflows and MCP clients, servers, tools, transports, authentication, authorization, and secure tool execution.
- Proactive ownership and cross-functional collaboration when driving ambiguous quality issues through verified end-to-end resolution.
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.
Disclaimer
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 8 to 12 years of quality or software engineering experience
- End-to-end testing and automation ownership for distributed, networking, security, proxy, or cloud services
- Hands-on Golang and/or Python test automation for APIs, services, and end-to-end workflows
- CI/CD integration and Linux or container diagnostics experience
- Experience testing L4/L7 proxy behavior, TCP/IP, DNS, TLS/mTLS, HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, status codes, load balancing, packet analysis, and connection troubleshooting
- Experience testing secure-access, ZTNA, SSE, or comparable products
- Experience validating OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, tenant isolation, authorization, and policy enforcement
- Experience validating Envoy, H2O, xDS, custom filters, API gateways, service meshes, or comparable high-performance proxy platforms
- Experience testing Kubernetes services and AWS deployments
- Experience with traffic generation, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, tracing, chaos testing, load testing, or production traffic analysis
- Practical knowledge of LLM workflows and MCP clients, servers, tools, transports, authentication, authorization, and secure tool execution
- Proactive ownership and cross-functional collaboration for ambiguous quality issues
Cisco Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Cisco and has not been reviewed or approved by Cisco.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as robust with multiple plan options and access to onsite/virtual LifeConnections Health Centers on major campuses. Company materials also highlight mental-health resources and comprehensive preventive care, supporting strong core medical benefits.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time away includes company‑wide recharge days, a paid birthday, a year‑end shutdown, and paid Critical Time Off for emergencies. Paid volunteer days further expand opportunities to step away and recharge.
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Parental & Family Support — Policies include a global minimum for paid parental leave for primary caregivers, caregiving concierge services, and on‑site children’s learning centers in select locations. In the U.S., family‑building support is consolidated under Carrot with a defined lifetime maximum, indicating structured assistance across fertility, preservation, adoption, and surrogacy.
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