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Security Engineer leading advanced penetration testing and agentic AI workflows for Cisco’s cloud and on-premises products. Identifying vulnerabilities and guiding remediation to strengthen global customer security.
Responsibilities:
- Lead advanced penetration testing engagements for on-premises and cloud application portfolios
- Create sophisticated attack plans to identify vulnerabilities
- Provide detailed, actionable remediation guidance to development teams
- Build and operate agentic AI workflows to scale security testing
- Increase testing coverage across complex system architectures
- Make risk-based security decisions
- Champion a proactive security culture using human judgment and autonomous agents
- Collaborate with development and engineering teams to improve product security maturity
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree plus 7 years of related experience, Master’s plus 4 years, or PhD plus 1 year in application-level penetration testing
- Offensive security experience across web applications, mobile applications, networks, and distributed systems
- Technical understanding of common vulnerabilities, attack vectors, and remediation strategies
- Experience with public cloud platforms, specifically AWS and GCP
- Ability to develop and maintain custom tooling using Python or Bash
- Preferred: active contributions to the security community, including research publications, CVEs, open-source projects, or bug-bounty recognitions
- Preferred: experience with C++, Javascript, Python, or Go
- Preferred: experience with Splunk products or similar large-scale data platforms
- Preferred: experience building cross-functional relationships with engineering teams
- Preferred: communication, mentoring, and constructive technical feedback experience
Benefits:
- Medical, dental and vision insurance
- 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
- Paid parental leave
- Short- and long-term disability coverage
- Basic life insurance
- Cisco restricted stock unit grants may be available, subject to eligibility
- 10 paid holidays per full calendar year
- 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
- 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday
- Paid year-end holiday shutdown
- 4 paid days off for personal wellness
- 16 days of paid vacation per full calendar year for non-exempt employees
- Flexible vacation time off program with no defined limit for eligible exempt employees
- 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter
- Up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward annually
- Additional paid time away for critical or emergency family issues
- Optional 10 paid volunteer days per full calendar year
- Annual bonuses for non-sales roles, subject to Cisco policies
- Performance-based incentive pay for employees on sales plans
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