# AI Security Engineer

**Company**: Cisco
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $139,300.00 to $203,600.00
**Category**: Security
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Join Cisco's Enterprise AI team, the core group enabling Generative AI powered experiences across Cisco.

Your Impact:

- Embed security into the Secure SDLC by defining and implementing guardrails across design, development, testing, and deployment phases.

- Integrate and optimize application security tooling, including SAST, DAST, SCA, and secrets scanning, within CI/CD pipelines to proactively identify and remediate vulnerabilities.

- Lead threat modeling and secure design reviews for cloud-native and microservices-based applications.

- Drive container and Kubernetes security practices, including image hardening, vulnerability management, and runtime controls.

- Define and enforce API security standards, including authentication, authorization, rate limiting, and protection against common API threats.

- Partner with engineering teams to triage, prioritize, and remediate security findings, improving overall security posture and developer experience.

- Establish secure coding standards and provide guidance on common vulnerabilities and remediation best practices.

- Enhance software supply chain security through dependency management, artifact integrity, and build pipeline protections.

Minimum Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or related field with 6+ years of experience in cybersecurity or cloud security engineering.

- 3+ years of hands-on experience securing GCP, Azure, or AWS environments in production enterprise environments.

- Experience integrating security controls into CI/CD pipelines and Kubernetes environments, including container image hardening, vulnerability scanning, image signing, and runtime policy enforcement.

- Experience securing AI/ML workloads and Generative AI systems, including model, data, and inference endpoint protection.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Cybersecurity background and operational experience.

- Certifications from ISC2 or ISACA.

- Experience designing and managing IAM, encryption, and network security controls.

Benefits:

- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.

- 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution.

- Paid parental leave.

- Short and long-term disability coverage.

- Basic life insurance.

- Paid time away.

- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer.

## Skills

### Required
- cloud security
- cybersecurity
- Kubernetes
- container security
- API security
- CI/CD pipelines

### Nice to have
- ISC2
- ISACA
- IAM
- encryption
- network security controls

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