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Senior DevSecOps Security Engineer, Cisco Intersight

Cisco • $186K — $267K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree and 8 years of experience in backend systems design and maintenance.
  • 5 years of experience with Go or Java in a Microservices architecture.
  • 3 years focused on DevSecOps or application security.
  • Experience using Python for security automation and tooling.
  • Knowledge of secure development lifecycle (SDLC) and translating security findings into code-based remediation.

Responsibilities

  • Implement platform security features and core infrastructure using Go or Java.
  • Design secure patterns for AI/ML model deployment and data protection with engineering teams.
  • Automate security tooling and compliance checks using Python.
  • Translate Cisco security mandates into actionable code and automated workflows.
  • Review feature designs and AI architectures to identify and mitigate security gaps early.
  • Guide remediation priorities across security scans and reviews, ensuring issues are tracked to closure.

Benefits

  • Collaborative work environment with cross-functional teams.
  • Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI-powered security features.
  • Focus on both software development and security, enhancing skill sets.
  • Engagement with Cisco's Security and Trust Organization for comprehensive security practices.
Full Job Description
The application window is expected to close on: 11/08/2026

Your Impact

You are a Security-Focused Software Engineer providing a dual-lens approach to our architecture: senior security guidance and hands-on software development. Partnering closely with Engineering, Architecture, Product Management, SRE, and Cisco's Security and Trust Organization (STO), you build secure, resilient, and scalable platform features-including AI-powered capabilities-while maintaining rigorous compliance standards. As a primary technical bridge between software development and security, you write production-grade code, assess the security impact of feature designs (including AI services), and build automation to improve our security posture. Typical responsibilities include:
  • Use Go or Java to implement platform security features and core infrastructure.
  • 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, andautomated 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 tracked to closure.


Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelors' degree in and 8 years of experience designing and maintaining production quality backend systems to include:
  • 5 years using Go or Java within a Microservices architecture.
  • 3 years 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 (e.g., OWASP Top 10 for LLMs) and MLOps security.
  • Strong understanding of cloud-native platforms, including AWS, Docker and Kubernetes, and how to secure them via Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible).
  • 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.

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