Cisco

Engineering Project Manager

Cisco$115K — $163K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4+ years in technical or security program management
  • 2+ years of experience in security domains like secure SDLC or vulnerability management
  • 1+ year of working knowledge in architecture and data flows
  • 2+ years leading cross-functional technical execution
  • 1+ year using AI tools for workflow automation and analysis

Responsibilities

  • Lead complex cybersecurity programs across various teams
  • Identify gaps and unblock decisions through strong technical understanding
  • Drive security capability launches with pertinent support documentation
  • Surfacematerial risks using metrics and stakeholder forums
  • Keep globally distributed teams accountable for program outcomes

Benefits

  • Collaborative work culture with a focus on technical clarity and partnership
  • Opportunity to work with cutting-edge security tools and methodologies
  • Engagement in high-impact projects that enhance customer trust and security
  • Access to continued professional development and training opportunities
  • Potential for involvement in innovative AI-driven engineering workflows
Full Job Description
The application window is expected to close on: 08/23/2026
Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

Meet the Team

Splunk Global Security (SGS) is led by Splunk's Chief Information Security Officer and exists to defend Splunk, Cisco, and our customers. The Strategy, Planning, and Operations team helps SGS turn security priorities into executable programs, measurable outcomes, and repeatable operating practices. We work closely with security engineering, security operations, product security, GRC, identity and access management, infrastructure, product management, and customer trust teams across a global organization. This is a practical, high-context team that values technical clarity, calm execution, and strong partnership in work that directly improves customer trust and security resilience.

Your Impact
As a Security Technical Program Manager, you will lead technically complex cybersecurity programs across the CISO organization and with partners across Engineering, Product, IT, Compliance, Customer Trust, Legal, Procurement, and go-to-market teams when needed. You will drive programs spanning security engineering, product and platform security, cloud and infrastructure security, identity and access management, vulnerability remediation, secure software development, AI-enabled engineering or security workflows, compliance readiness, customer assurance, and security service delivery.

You will develop enough understanding of architectures, data flows, control design, telemetry, and engineering dependencies to identify gaps, unblock decisions, and connect technical work to risk reduction and customer impact. You will use metrics, dashboards, audit evidence, and stakeholder forums to surface material risks early and keep globally distributed teams accountable.

You will help launch security capabilities with the right runbooks, support
handoffs, customer assurance inputs, and awareness or GTM coordination so new capabilities land cleanly and can be operated at scale.

Minimum Qualifications
• 4+ years of experience in technical program management, security program
management, security engineering operations, or a related technical delivery role, including 2+ years driving cybersecurity, cloud, infrastructure, enterprise software, compliance, audit readiness, or risk-reduction programs.
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• 2+ years working with security domains including secure SDLC, vulnerability
management, security operations, identity and access management, cloud security, product or platform security, third-party risk, security controls and frameworks such as NIST, ISO, PCI, SOC 2, or FedRAMP.
• 1+ working with architecture, data flows, control design, cloud or
infrastructure dependencies, and solution tradeoffs well enough to identify risks, ask precise technical questions, and communicate clearly with engineering teams.
• 2+ of experience driving cross-functional technical execution across
product, engineering, security, compliance, and business stakeholders, including
ownership of program metrics, dashboards, executive updates, and decision
records.
• 1+ years of experience using AI-enabled tools to improve analysis, documentation, reporting, or workflow automation, with awareness of risks such as data leakage, prompt injection, third-party tooling, confidentiality, human review, and audibility.

Preferred Qualifications
• Experience supporting programs in a CISO organization, security operations center, product security team, GRC function, cloud security team, or enterprise technology organization.
• Experience participating in architecture reviews, threat modeling, control
implementation, detection engineering, incident readiness, large-scale
remediation, or customer assurance efforts.
• Experience managing security integrations with mergers and acquisitions
• Experience supporting security review, control implementation, or rollout of AI-
enabled products, copilots, agents, AI-assisted engineering workflows, or internal automation.
• Familiarity with Splunk products such as Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Cloud Platform, Enterprise Security, SOAR, or Observability Cloud.
• Cybersecurity, cloud, or program management certification such as Security+,
CISSP, CISM, PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM, AWS, Azure, or GCP certification.

About Cisco

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