Job Description

Meet the Team

Cisco Intersight is a cloud-native operations platform that provides unified management, automation, visibility, and lifecycle operations for infrastructure across data center, cloud, and edge environments. As we integrate AI-driven intelligence into our platform, our SaaS, on-premises, and mobile offerings depend on secure, reliable, and high-performance software engineering to build, test, release and operate complex systems at scale.

Your Impact

You are a Security-Focused Software Engineer providing a dual-lens approach to our architecture: senior security guidance and hands-on software development. Partnering closely with Engineering, Architecture, Product Management, SRE, and Cisco’s Security and Trust Organization (STO), you build secure, resilient, and scalable platform features—including AI-powered capabilities—while maintaining thorough compliance standards. As a primary technical bridge between software development and security, you write production-grade code, assess the security impact of feature designs (including AI services), and build automation to improve our security posture.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Use Go or Java to implement platform security features and core infrastructure.
• Partner with engineering teams to design secure patterns for AI/ML model deployment, data protection, and inference security within the Intersight ecosystem.
• Automate security tooling, vulnerability remediation, and continuous compliance checks using Python.
• Interpret Cisco-level mandates and security procedures into actionable code, control expectations, and automated remediation workflows.
• Review new feature designs, AI architectures and infrastructure changes, identifying security gaps early and recommending mitigations that balance usability, performance, and security.
• Guide remediation priorities across automated scans, penetration tests, and security reviews, ensuring issues are triaged, assigned, and supervised to closure.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors' degree in and 8 years of experience designing and maintaining production quality backend systems to include:
• 5 years using Go or Java within a Microservices architecture.
• 3 years focused on DevSecOps or application security.
• Experience using Python for security automation and tooling.
• Experience with secure development lifecycle (SDLC) requirements and translating security findings into practical code-based remediation plans.
• Knowledge of vulnerability triage, automated security scan findings, and SLA-based remediation workflows.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing or securing AI/ML workloads, including familiarity with common AI security frameworks (e.g., OWASP Top 10 for LLMs) and MLOps security.
• Strong understanding of cloud-native platforms, including AWS, Docker and Kubernetes, and how to secure them via Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible).
• Proven ability to balance deep-dive technical software development tasks with broad-scope security policy and compliance mandates.
• Experience with Cisco security mandates, policies, or product security processes.
• Familiarity with compliance audits such as SOC 2, ISO 27001 or GDPR/privacy regulations.
• Security or cloud certifications such as CISSP, CCSP or cloud-provider-specific developer certifications.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to facilitate technical discussions regarding security trade-offs in software design.

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