Security-Focused Software Engineer

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 a Security-Focused Software Engineer, you will provide senior security guidance and hands-on software development to build secure, resilient, and scalable platform features, including AI-powered capabilities, while maintaining thorough compliance standards.

Responsibilities

• Implement platform security features and core infrastructure using Go or Java.
• 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

• Bachelor's degree and 8 years of experience designing and maintaining production-quality backend systems.
• 5 years of experience using Go or Java within a Microservices architecture.
• 3 years of experience 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 and MLOps security.
• Strong understanding of cloud-native platforms, including AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes, and how to secure them via Infrastructure-as-Code.
• 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.