# Engineering Program Manager, Network Engineering

The application window is expected to close on: 11/29/2026Meet the Team The Network Engineering group is at the forefront of building the software platforms that power some of the largest networks in the world. The networking industry is undergoing a major transformation as next-generation infrastructure is developed to support rapidly growing AI/ML workloads and the ever-increasing number of internet users, applications, and services. In this role, you'll be a part of the Network Engineering Quality + Security Ops team with impact and influence across Cisco. This team manages quality and security programs across Networking, defines quality and security metrics and goals for Cisco, develops tools to measure quality and security in partnership with IT & BI, and facilitates executive quality and security reviews. You will work alongside engineers and operations professionals who are passionate about solving complex security and quality challenges as a team and driving progress on our most critical initiatives. In this role, you will: Your Impact Program Manage complex security programs in Networking involving cross functional teams such as Software Engineering, Security & Trust, Comp

- **Id**: 4143650
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/cisco-systems-engineering-program-manager-network-engineering>
- **Role**: Networking
- **Role family**: Networking
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Milpitas, United States, Austin, United States, Knoxville, United States, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T06:12:27Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 8059
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Annual bonuses, Equity, Life insurance, Parental leave, Restricted stock units, Vision insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Network Security, Unified Communications, Endpoint Security, Observability & APM

## Company

- **Id**: 90
- **Name**: Cisco Systems
- **Domain**: cisco.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/cisco-systems>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 84
- **Open postings**: 285
- **Ghost share**: 0.049
- **Stale share**: 0.474
- **Repost share**: 0.091
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 26
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 171600
- **Max**: 281800
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 281800

## Technologies

- **Splunk** — Optional: no
- **Confluence** — Optional: yes
- **Cursor** — Optional: yes
- **Git** — Optional: yes
- **Jira** — Optional: yes
- **OpenAI Codex** — Optional: yes
- **Scrum** — Optional: yes
- **SOC 2** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-12T06:12:27Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 1,384 · green card filings: 608; Filings 12m: 1384

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 26
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T08:58:40Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 281800
- **Is top pay**: yes

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