Security Engineering Technical Leader

Cisco’s Platform Security Team is committed to delivering advanced security compliance and risk management solutions. The Security Engineering Technical Lead will design and implement scalable automation and AI-driven solutions to enhance security controls and collaborate with various 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

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