Security Engineering Technical Leader

2011049 – Security Engineer Technical Leader (Remote)

The application window is expected to close on:
May 27, 2026. Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

Cisco’s Platform Security Team is committed to delivering advanced security compliance and risk management solutions that ensure consistent enforcement of security policies, automate compliance processes, and protect platforms against evolving threats. You will work alongside experienced engineers who empower their peers by providing the tools, frameworks, and processes needed to deliver high-quality automation and security reviews.

The Security Engineering Technical Lead plays a critical role in designing and implementing scalable automation and AI-driven solutions to strengthen security controls across the organization’s application and platform ecosystem. This position collaborates closely with multiple teams to integrate security policies into development workflows, ensuring secure software delivery without compromising speed. The role also focuses on leveraging automation and AI to improve risk identification, security architecture reviews, and compliance validation.

• 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.

• 5+ years of experience in cybersecurity, security engineering, Dev Sec Ops , 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.

The starting salary range for this position is $149,100 to $218,900 for new hires in the U.S. and/or Canada, not including incentive compensation,…