Security Engineering Technical Leader

Cisco is a leading technology company focused on revolutionizing data and infrastructure security in the AI era. The Security Engineering Technical Lead will design and implement scalable automation and AI-driven solutions to enhance security controls across the organization, collaborating with multiple teams to ensure secure software delivery and improve risk identification and compliance validation.

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

Requirements:

• 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