Senior Security Engineer

Cisco•Research Triangle Park, NC

25d•$137,000 - $277,600•Hybrid

About The Position

The application window is expected to close on: 10/21/2026. This is a hybrid role at the RTP, NC office. We are the CCPS IDR (Intrusion Detection & Response) team, a security engineering group within Cisco's Webex & Collaboration Cloud Platform Security organization. Our mission is to ensure every meaningful security event across the Webex platform is captured, normalized, and delivered to the right hands before it becomes a problem. Our work sits at the intersection of platform engineering and security operations. We own the log ingestion, parsing, and data fidelity pipelines and operational detection effectiveness that power Webex's enterprise SIEM, directly supporting FedRAMP compliance, SOC effectiveness, and executive risk reporting. We are a lean team of engineers and a delivery manager. If you care about security engineering that has real, measurable impact at scale and building the foundational observability layer for one of Cisco's largest cloud platforms, this is the team to be on. We are seeking a Security Incident Detection Engineer with deep Splunk and Splunk Enterprise Security experience to support detection engineering, incident visibility, and security monitoring across the Webex cloud service environment. This role will focus on developing, maintaining, and improving Splunk knowledge objects, detection content, validation dashboards, and operational standards that enable reliable security incident detection and response. The engineer will work closely with security operations, cloud security, platform engineering, and service teams to ensure security telemetry is properly ingested, normalized, validated, and actionable.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree plus 7 years of related experience, or Master’s degree plus 4 years of related experience
Hands-on experience operating Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Enterprise Security at scale, including deep knowledge of full ES feature enablement for SOC/SIEM use cases.
Advanced SPL development skills, including efficient search design, macros, lookups, stats/tstats, data models, accelerated searches, and dashboard queries.
Experience developing and maintaining Splunk knowledge objects in a managed app or source-controlled environment.
Understanding of Splunk CIM, data normalization, field extractions, props/transforms, event types, tags, and source type design and Experience building, tuning, and maintaining ES correlation searches and notable event workflows.
Familiarity with cloud security logging, incident detection, threat detection logic, and SOC operations.
Experienced in documentation, architecture review, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Nice To Haves

Experience with risk-based alerting in Splunk Enterprise Security.
Familiarity with Git-based development workflows for Splunk apps and detection content.
Experience supporting security monitoring in large-scale SaaS, cloud, or production service environments.
Knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK, NIST SP 800-53, ISO/IEC 27001, COBIT, or similar control frameworks.
Experience with detection-as-code practices, automated validation, or CI/CD pipelines for Splunk content.
Splunk certifications are a plus.

Responsibilities

Build and maintain Splunk Enterprise Security correlation searches, notable events, risk-based alerts, and detection content that directly power security incident visibility across the Webex cloud environment.
Develop detection build out and maintain validation dashboards aligned to telemetry ingestion contracts, ensuring required security events are present, accurate, timely, and CIM-compliant.
Validate data onboarding quality across cloud services covering source types, indexes, field normalization, timestamp accuracy, and parsing consistency.
Partner with SOC and incident response teams to improve alert fidelity, reduce false positives, and ensure detections provide clear investigative context.
Collaborate with platform and service engineering teams to define and improve security logging requirements, and support detection coverage mapping against MITRE ATT&CK and relevant compliance frameworks.

Benefits

medical, dental and vision insurance
a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
paid parental leave
short and long-term disability coverage
basic life insurance
paid time away
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
16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees (non-exempt)
flexible vacation time off program (exempt)
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
annual bonuses
performance-based incentive pay