Security Operations Engineer

The application window is expected to close on: 11/11/2026

We believe that world-class security starts with great people. The SBG Security Operations (Sec Ops) Team is the frontline defense for Cisco’s Security Business Group. At Cisco SBG we build solutions that defend the world’s most critical infrastructure. Our mission is to instill absolute confidence in our engineering partners and global customers that Cisco security solutions are designed, built, and operated securely.

In this role, you won’t just be a gear in the machine, you will be an empowered collaborator, working alongside world-class security engineers, researchers, and developers in an inclusive, high-impact environment that fosters continuous learning, mentorship, and career growth.

As a core member of the SBG Sec Ops team, your responsibilities span five critical operational pillars:

Full-Stack Vulnerability Management & Posture Governance:

• Manage, triage, and validate container, host, and cloud infrastructure findings across enterprise scanners.
• Drive vulnerability prioritization, validate false positives, and enforce remediation SLAs across product engineering queues.
• Incident Command & Response:
• Serve as an Incident Commander (IC) during critical-severity SBG security incidents.
• Lead cross-functional triage calls, direct containment and eradication strategies, coordinate forensics, and facilitate postmortem retrospectives.
• Detection Engineering, Threat Hunting & Intelligence:
• Analyze multi-source telemetry in enterprise SIEMs and endpoint auditing tools to detect adversary tactics mapped to MITRE ATT&CK framework.
• Formulate and execute hypothesis-driven threat hunts, converting hunt findings into permanent automated detections and alerting rules.
• Audit, Compliance & Security Assurance:
• Partner with governance teams to collect, validate, and orchestrate technical control evidence for compliance audits.
• Operational Excellence & Security Automation:
• Eliminate operational bottlenecks and technical debt by engineering automated workflows, runbooks, and scripts (Python).
• Leverage AI/LLM tooling and REST APIs to accelerate triage workflows, enhance threat analysis.

• 4+ years of hands-on experience in a dedicated Security Operations Center (SOC), Cloud Security, or Incident Response role within a modern enterprise environment.
• Experience with cloud architecture like AWS, Azure and GCP
• Experience with vulnerability lifecycle management, operating and tuning vulnerability management pipelines, understanding CVSS/EPSS scoring, and driving remediation across complex microservice environments.
• Experience in incident response managing high-pressure security incident response workflows following NIST SP 800-61 / ISO standards.
• Experience with log & telemetry analysis, querying, correlating, and interpreting security logs within enterprise SIEM platforms (Splunk) and Linux system logs.
• Experience authoring postmortems and SOPs, showcasing effective written and verbal communication skills
• Experience leveraging AI/LLMs for alert enrichment, ticket classification, or routine operational automation.

• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
• Experience with Python automation and scripting
• Experience with Physical Data Center Security
• Experience consuming REST APIs (Jira, Git Hub, cloud APIs) to automate security workflows.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, and container security scanners (Wiz, or Falco).
• Industry-recognized credentials such as CISSP, AWS Certified Security - Specialty, GIAC (GCIH/GCFA/GCDA), or Splunk Core Certified Power User/Admin.
• Experience and availability to participate in a distributed team on-call rotation.

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