# Security-Focused DevSecOps Practitioner

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: Milpitas, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $203,000.00 to $258,600.00
**Category**: Security
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Platform and Security team within Cisco's AI Software and Platform Group designs and operates the infrastructure that powers Cisco's AI powered offerings. You'll partner across the AI Software and Platform group to set observability standards, deliver platform solutions, and raise the bar for what 'great' looks like in production reliability.

As a highly experienced security-focused DevSecOps practitioner, you'll bring your broad background in information security, DevOps practices, software development, and knowledge of compliance to uplift the organization's security posture. Your responsibilities will include:

- Driving a shift-left security strategy, ensuring security is integrated into every aspect of the SDLC

- Leading compliance efforts by working with internal and external audit teams, providing evidence, and ensuring adherence to controls

- Performing security architecture reviews, leading threat modeling exercises, and doing adversarial red teaming on internal products

- Creating and maintaining a risk register within the organization, providing guidance on a risk-based approach to decision making for the leadership team

The ideal candidate will have:

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering (or related field) + 7 years of experience, Master's + 4 years of related experience, or PhD + 1 year of related experience

- 2+ years of experience with AI Agents to perform security testing and evaluations against code and deployed systems

- Experience in shift-left security, including integrating SAST/DAST into CI pipelines, with knowledge of Prisma Cloud, Wiz, or similar CNAPP tools required

- Experience operationalizing vulnerability management, including setting and meeting severity-based SLAs/exception handling and reducing developer remediation friction

- Experience securing runtime workloads and cloud infrastructure, including prior rollout of CADR/XDR/CWPP (or similar) plus experience in AWS/GCP/Azure and ability to secure Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Helm)

Benefits include:

- 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, including 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees

- 1 paid day off for employee's birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness

- Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees

- Exempt employees participate in Cisco's flexible vacation time off program

- 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter

- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

## Skills

### Required
- AI Agents
- shift-left security
- SAST/DAST
- Prisma Cloud
- Wiz
- CNAPP
- vulnerability management
- CADR/XDR/CWPP
- AWS/GCP/Azure
- Terraform
- Helm

### Nice to have
- CISSP
- ISC2 certification

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