Meet the Team
Cisco Intersight is a cloud-native operations platform that provides unified management, automation, visibility, and lifecycle operations for infrastructure across data center, cloud, and edge environments. Its SaaS, on-premises, and mobile offerings depend on secure, reliable automation that enables engineering teams to build, test, release, and operate software at scale.
We are looking for an experienced Security Officer / DevSecOps Engineer to provide senior security guidance and hands-on engineering contribution within the Intersight DevSecOps function. This role partners closely with engineering, architecture, product management, SRE, compliance, Cisco's Security and Trust Organization (STO), and leadership teams to help Intersight meet security, privacy, corporate, and regulatory requirements while enabling rapid and secure product delivery.
Your Impact
In this role, you will be a senior security partner for Intersight engineering and DevSecOps. You will assess security impact, clarify requirements, prioritize risk, guide remediation, and contribute hands-on to security automation, hardening, and remediation work.
- Assess and guide improvements to the security posture of Intersight applications and delivery workflows across SaaS, on-premises, and mobile offerings.
- Interpret Cisco-level security mandates, policies, audit requirements, release gates, and security best practices into clear guidance, control expectations, acceptance criteria, and remediation priorities.
- Partner with development teams, architects, product management, SRE, compliance, and central security teams to review new features, architecture changes, authentication flows, data handling, cloud infrastructure changes, and other security-sensitive designs.
- Conduct product security risk assessments for new and existing features, identifying gaps, recommending mitigations, and helping teams balance security, usability, and delivery needs.
- Guide vulnerability management and remediation priorities across automated scans, penetration tests, release security reviews, and security incident response activities, ensuring issues are visible, triaged, assigned, and tracked to closure within SLA.
- Coordinate annual penetration test planning, findings review, remediation tracking, and stakeholder communication with Cisco security teams and Intersight engineering stakeholders.
- Support compliance with Cisco security mandates and Build Environment Security requirements by clarifying requirements, identifying evidence needs, reviewing audit findings, and guiding remediation priorities.
- Support commercial compliance and customer security activities by maintaining security documentation, providing product security context, and helping respond to audit or customer security questions.
- Provide security guidance and awareness to engineering teams on secure design, secure coding, secrets handling, access control, encryption, data protection, cloud security, and secure delivery practices.
- Define and contribute to implementation of security automation, reporting, and tooling that improve visibility, reduce manual work, and help teams follow security requirements consistently.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelors 11+ years of proven experience.
- Deep security engineering experience across multiple areas such as application security, cloud infrastructure security, authentication, encryption, data protection, key management, CI/CD security, vulnerability management, or incident response.
- Experience securing enterprise-scale SaaS, on-premises, or mobile offerings.
- Experience conducting security reviews, architecture reviews, threat or risk assessments, and translating findings into practical guidance and remediation plans.
- Experience with vulnerability triage, penetration test findings, automated security scan findings, and SLA-based remediation workflows.
- Experience working with corporate security mandates, secure development lifecycle requirements, product security standards, compliance requirements, or security audit processes.
- Hands-on experience implementing security automation, hardening, vulnerability remediation, secure delivery improvements, or related DevSecOps capabilities.
- Demonstrated ability to partner effectively across engineering, security, compliance, product, SRE, and leadership stakeholders to drive alignment and execution.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain security risk, requirements, priorities, and tradeoffs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Cisco security mandates, policies, tooling, or product security processes.
- Experience with security frameworks and compliance audits such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, or similar frameworks.
- Familiarity with privacy regulations and data protection requirements such as GDPR or similar standards.
- Familiarity with DevSecOps, secure delivery, and CI/CD security tooling.
- Strong understanding of cloud platforms and cloud-native environments, including AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes.
- Relevant security certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CCSP, or similar.
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.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree with 11+ years of proven experience
- Deep security engineering experience across application security, cloud infrastructure security, authentication, encryption, data protection, key management, CI/CD security, vulnerability management, or incident response
- Experience securing enterprise-scale SaaS, on-premises, or mobile offerings
- Experience conducting security reviews, architecture reviews, threat or risk assessments, and translating findings into remediation plans
- Experience with vulnerability triage, penetration test findings, automated security scan findings, and SLA-based remediation workflows
- Experience working with corporate security mandates, secure development lifecycle requirements, product security standards, compliance requirements, or security audit processes
- Hands-on experience implementing security automation, hardening, vulnerability remediation, or related DevSecOps capabilities
- Ability to partner effectively across engineering, security, compliance, product, SRE, and leadership stakeholders
- Strong written and verbal communication skills to explain security risk and tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Experience with Cisco security mandates, policies, tooling, or product security processes
- Experience with security frameworks and compliance audits such as SOC 2 or ISO 27001
- Familiarity with privacy regulations and data protection requirements such as GDPR
- Familiarity with DevSecOps and CI/CD security tooling
- Strong understanding of cloud platforms and cloud-native environments, including AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes
- Relevant security certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CCSP, or similar
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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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