The application window is expected to close on: 06/27/2026

Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

This role is remote and can be worked from any US location, though preference is eastern time zone.

The Cisco Secure Workload team is at the forefront of data center and cloud security. Our platform provides comprehensive, automated, policy-based security for multi-cloud environments, delivering deep visibility, micro-segmentation, and advanced threat detection. By leveraging sophisticated analytics and machine learning, we empower organizations to protect their workloads, ensuring compliance and operational resilience within increasingly complex, distributed infrastructures.

Your Impact

As a Senior Security Engineering & Compliance Lead, you will bridge the gap between technical infrastructure and regulatory rigor. You will manage the implementation of security frameworks (SOC, ISO, NIST, etc) with automated compliance pipelines, hardened identity systems, and risk-mitigation strategies. This role is for a hands-on engineer who views compliance as a technical problem to be solved through automation, robust system design, and proactive threat engineering.

Engineering Compliance & Audit Automation
•    Architect Compliance-as-Code: Design and implement automated controls to satisfy security compliance requirements, reducing manual evidence collection through system integration.
•    Audit Readiness Engineering: Conduct technical gap assessments of infrastructure and applications; design remediation plans that integrate directly into the CI/CD pipeline.
•    Evidence Orchestration: Build and maintain automated data pipelines to provide real-time visibility into control effectiveness for auditors and stakeholders.

Security Operations & Incident Engineering
•    Detection Engineering: Oversee security alert queues, prioritizing high-severity risks and engineering automated response playbooks to resolve incidents.
•    Incident Simulation: Facilitate and document technical incident response tabletop exercises, using the findings to engineer more resilient system architectures and automated recovery processes.
•    Documentation as Code: Maintain technical documentation and incident logs that serve as the "source of truth" for audit requirements.

Identity & Access Engineering (IAM)
•    IAM Hardening: Engineer and enforce automated user access reviews and segregation-of-duties (SoD) testing.
•    Privileged Access Management (PAM): Audit and optimize privileged account controls, implementing technical guardrails to minimize the blast radius of unauthorized access.

Risk & Vulnerability Engineering
•    Vulnerability Lifecycle Management: Perform deep-dive vulnerability analyses on enterprise infrastructure; engineer automated patch management and configuration hardening workflows.
•    Risk-Based Prioritization: Quantify business impact through technical risk assessments, collaborating with engineering teams to implement corrective technical controls rather than just policy-based fixes.

Minimum Qualifications

•    Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or related technical field with 8+ years of experience; or a Master’s degree with 6+ years.
•    Experience with security engineering in cloud-native environments (AWS/Azure/GCP) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/Ansible).
•    Experience working with technical security controls and regulated compliance frameworks such as SOC, ISO, etc.

Preferred Qualifications

•    Python, Go, or Bash scripting/programming for security automation or log analysis.
•    Hands-on experience building "Compliance-as-Code" solutions.
•    Certifications such as CCSP, CCSK, OSCP, cloud or security specific certifications
•    Experience with SIEM/SOAR engineering and automated incident response orchestration.
•    Strong understanding of zero trust architecture and micro-segmentation engineering.

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 $183,800.00 to $263,600.00 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 hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks.  Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.

U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies:

• 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees

• 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco

• Non-exempt employees** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees

• Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)

• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next

• Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members

• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

• .75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

• 1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

• 1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and

• Once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:

New York City Metro Area:

$183,800.00 - $303,100.00

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

$163,600.00 - $269,800.00

* For quota-based sales roles on Cisco’s sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.

** Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.