{"id":4106501,"url":"https://alion.io/job/cisco-systems-security-software-engineering-technical-leader-cisco-intersight","title":"Security Software Engineering Technical Leader--Cisco Intersight","company":{"id":90,"name":"Cisco Systems","domain":"cisco.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/cisco-systems","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"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"}},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":"lead","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Bengaluru, India"],"countries":["IN"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":8,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Go","optional":false},{"name":"Java","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Ansible","optional":true},{"name":"AWS","optional":true},{"name":"Docker","optional":true},{"name":"GDPR","optional":true},{"name":"ISO 27001","optional":true},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":true},{"name":"OWASP Top 10","optional":true},{"name":"SOC 2","optional":true},{"name":"Terraform","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-11T22:38:13Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-11","last_verified_at":"2026-11-11T22:38:13Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"Meet the Team\nCisco 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.\nYour Impact\nYou 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.\nRoles and Responsibilities\nUse Go or Java to implement platform security features and core infrastructure.\nPartner with engineering teams to design secure patterns for AI/ML model deployment, data protection, and inference security within the Intersight ecosystem.\nAutomate security tooling, vulnerability remediation, and continuous compliance checks using Python.\nInterpret Cisco-level mandates and security procedures into actionable code, control expectations, and automated remediation workflows.\nReview new feature designs, AI architectures and infrastructure changes, identifying security gaps early and recommending mitigations that balance usability, performance, and security.\nGuide remediation priorities across automated scans, penetration tests, and security reviews, ensuring issues are triaged, assigned, and supervised to closure.\nMinimum Qualifications\nBachelors' degree in and 8 years of experience designing and maintaining production quality backend systems to include:\n5 years using Go or Java within a Microservices architecture.\n3 years focused on DevSecOps or application security.\nExperience using Python for security automation and tooling.\nExperience with secure development lifecycle (SDLC) requirements and translating security findings into practical code-based remediation plans.\nKnowledge of vulnerability triage, automated security scan findings, and SLA-based remediation workflows.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience developing or securing AI/ML workloads, including familiarity with common AI security frameworks (e.g., OWASP Top 10 for LLMs) and MLOps security.\nStrong understanding of cloud-native platforms, including AWS, Docker and Kubernetes, and how to secure them via Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible).\nProven ability to balance deep-dive technical software development tasks with broad-scope security policy and compliance mandates.\nExperience with Cisco security mandates, policies, or product security processes.\nFamiliarity with compliance audits such as SOC 2, ISO 27001 or GDPR/privacy regulations.\nSecurity or cloud certifications such as CISSP, CCSP or cloud-provider-specific developer certifications.\nStrong written and verbal communication skills to facilitate technical discussions regarding security trade-offs in software design.\n#WeAreCisco (This is the Standard and cannot be changed)\n#WeAreCisco where every individual brings their unique skills and perspectives together to pursue our purpose of powering an inclusive future for all.\nOur passion is connection-we celebrate our employees’ diverse set of backgrounds and focus on unlocking potential. Cisconians often experience one company, many careers where learning and development are encouraged and supported at every stage. Our technology, tools, and culture pioneered hybrid work trends, allowing all to not only give their best, but be their best.\nWe understand our outstanding opportunity to bring communities together and at the heart of that is our people. One-third of Cisconians collaborate in our 30 employee resource organizations, called Inclusive Communities, to connect, foster belonging, learn to be informed allies, and make a difference. Dedicated paid time off to volunteer-80 hours each year-allows us to give back to causes we are passionate about, and nearly 86% do!\nOur purpose, driven by our people, is what makes us the worldwide leader in technology that powers the internet. Helping our customers reimagine their applications, secure their enterprise, transform their infrastructure, and meet their sustainability goals is what we do best. We ensure that every step we take is a step towards a more inclusive future for all. Take your next step and be you, with us!\nWhy Cisco?\nAt Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era - and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.\nFueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.\nWe are Cisco, and our power starts with you.\nDisclaimer\nTo ensure that we hire the best talent in the right way, we follow a strict hiring process and recently, Cisco has been made aware of fraudulent recruiters claiming to be from the company. Please be advised that any communication from Cisco about careers will:\nbe in direct response to an application you have submitted through the company career site\nbegin with screening or an interview\noriginate from a Cisco email address, and\nbe conducted across email, phone, or WebEx\nCisco will never make a job offer without conducting an interview process or ask you for money in any way. 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