Senior DevSecOps Security Engineer, Cisco Intersight

About this role

The application window is expected to close on: 09/13/2026 Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received .

Meet the Team

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. Our SaaS, on-premises, and mobile offerings depend on secure, reliable automation that enables engineering teams to build, test, release, and operate software at scale. We are looking for an expert Security Officer / DevSecOps Engineer to provide senior security guidance and hands-on engineering contribution within the Intersight DevSecOps function. This role partners closely with Engineering, Architecture, Product Management, SRE, Compliance, Cisco's Security and Trust Organization (STO), and leadership teams to help Intersight meet security, privacy, corporate, and regulatory requirements while enabling rapid and secure product delivery.

Your Impact

In this role, you will be a senior security partner for Intersight Engineering & DevSecOps. You will assess security impact, clarify requirements, prioritize risk, guide remediation, and contribute to security automation, hardening, and remediation work. Typical responsibilities include: • Assess and guide improvements to the security posture of Intersight applications and delivery workflows • Interpret Cisco-level security mandates, policies, audit requirements, release gates, and security best practices into clear guidance, control expectations, acceptance criteria, and remediation priorities. • Partner with development teams, architects, product management, SRE, compliance, and central security teams to review new features, architecture changes and security-sensitive designs, identifying gaps, recommending mitigations, and helping teams balance security, usability, and delivery needs. • Guide vulnerability management and remediation priorities across automated scans, penetration tests, release security reviews, and security incident response activities, ensuring issues are visible, triaged, assigned, and tracked to closure within SLA. • Support compliance with Cisco security mandates and Build Environment Security requirements by clarifying requirements, identifying evidence needs, reviewing audit findings, and guiding remediation priorities. • Define and contribute to implementation of security automation, reporting, and tooling that improve visibility, reduce manual work, and help teams follow security requirements consistently.

Minimum Qualifications • Bachelors' degree and 8 years of hands-on experience implementing security automation, hardening, vulnerability remediation, secure delivery improvements, or related DevSecOps capabilities. • 3+ years' experience conducting security reviews, architecture reviews, threat or risk assessments, and translating findings into practical guidance and remediation plans. • Use of a major programming language, preferably Python, with to build, test, and maintain production-quality automation. • Experience with vulnerability triage, penetration test findings, automated security scan findings, and SLA-based remediation workflows. • Experience working with corporate security mandates, secure development lifecycle requirements, product security standards, compliance requirements, or security audit processes.

Preferred Qualifications • Security engineering experience across multiple areas such as application security, cloud infrastructure security, authentication, encryption, data protection, key management, CI/CD security, vulnerability management, or incident response. • Demonstrated ability to partner effectively across engineering, security, compliance, product, SRE, and leadership stakeholders to drive alignment and execution. • Experience with Cisco security mandates, policies, tooling, or product security processes. • Experience with security frameworks and compliance audits such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, or similar frameworks, privacy regulations and data protection requirements such as GDPR or similar standards. • Strong understanding of cloud platforms and cloud-native environments, including AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes. • Relevant security certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CCSP, or similar. • Strong written and verbal communication skills to facilitate the explanation of security risk, requirements, priorities, and tradeoffs to both technical and non-technical team members.

Why Cisco?  At 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. Fueled 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.  We are Cisco, and our power starts with you. 

Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:

The starting salary range posted for this position is $186,900.00 to $267,700.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can

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