AI DevSecOps Engineer Technical Leader

Cisco•Milpitas, CA

8d•$216,300 - $280,800

About The Position

Cisco’s Platform and Security team in the AI Software and Platform Group designs and operates infrastructure for AI offerings such as Cisco Cloud Control, AI Defense, and AI Canvas. The Observability Engineering group provides metrics, traces, and logs to support service observability and monitoring. The role partners across the AI Software and Platform Group to establish observability standards, deliver platform solutions, and improve production reliability, including building agentic observability capabilities that surface health insights more intelligently than traditional dashboards and alerts. As a security-focused DevSecOps lead engineer, this role improves security outcomes for Cisco’s core AI products by applying information security, DevOps, software development, and compliance expertise. It drives security throughout the software development lifecycle, leads compliance and security assurance work, reviews architectures and threats, conducts adversarial red teaming, and guides organizational risk decisions.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field and 8 years of experience; or a master’s degree and 6 years of related experience; or a PhD and 3 years of related experience.
At least 2 years of experience using AI agents to perform security testing and evaluations against code and deployed systems.
Experience with shift-left security, including integrating SAST/DAST into CI pipelines.
Knowledge of Prisma Cloud, Wiz, or similar CNAPP tools.
Experience operationalizing vulnerability management, including setting and meeting severity-based SLAs, handling exceptions, and reducing developer remediation friction.
Experience securing runtime workloads and cloud infrastructure, including prior rollout of CADR/XDR/CWPP or similar capabilities.
Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure.
Ability to secure Infrastructure as Code, including Terraform and Helm.

Nice To Haves

CISSP or another ISC2 certification is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

Drive a shift-left security strategy and integrate security throughout the software development lifecycle.
Lead compliance efforts with internal and external audit teams, provide evidence, ensure adherence to controls, and serve as a point person for security assurance.
Perform security architecture reviews and lead threat modeling exercises.
Conduct adversarial red teaming on internal products and help deliver secure-by-design products.
Create and maintain an organizational risk register and guide leadership in risk-based decision making.
Improve security outcomes for Cisco’s core AI products.

Benefits

Medical insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
401(k) plan with 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 and continued-employment vesting conditions.
10 paid holidays per full calendar year
Floating holiday for non-exempt employees
Paid birthday day off
Paid year-end holiday shutdown
Four paid personal wellness days
Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation per full calendar year, accrued at 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees.
Exempt employees participate in a flexible vacation time off program with no defined usage limit, subject to availability and business limitations.
80 hours of sick time off provided on hire and each January 1, with up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward.
Additional paid time away may be requested for critical or emergency family issues.
Optional 10 paid volunteer days per full calendar year
Annual bonuses may be available for non-sales roles, subject to Cisco policies.