AI Operations Security Engineer

Cisco; Galway; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco is hiring for a position in Galway focused on AI Ops automation and security operations. Candidates should have extensive experience in site reliability engineering and security practices.

The role requires developing monitoring solutions, managing incident responses, and mentoring junior staff. Hybrid work model available with three days in-office per week.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience for Bachelor's, 4+ years for Master's, or 1+ year for PhD.
• Knowledge in AI Ops, site reliability engineering, and security engineering practices.
• Experience with incident response and vulnerability management.

Responsibilities

• Develop, deploy, and operate AI Ops automation for security operations.
• Build monitoring solutions to detect threats in real time.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines with embedded security controls.
• Lead security testing aligned with standards.
• Manage incident response for AI Ops platforms.

Skills

AI Ops

Site reliability engineering

Security engineering practices

Incident response

Automation

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

PhD

Tools

Cisco XDR

Splunk

Job description

This position offers hybrid work requiring three days of in-office attendance per week (Galway).

Your Impact

• Develop, deploy, and operate AI Ops automation for security operations, integrating and tuning AI capabilities based on production data and feedback.
• Build monitoring and observability solutions to detect threats in real time.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines with embedded security and compliance controls.
• Architect and maintain security controls, conduct assessments, and apply hardening across software and infrastructure.
• Lead security and compliance testing aligned with standards like SOC 2, FedRAMP, and ISO 27001.
• Manage incident response and mitigate risks for AI Ops platforms.
• Drive migration and integration with existing systems, define security requirements, and produce performance metrics.
• Contribute to threat modeling for AI-driven risks.
• Review and author detection logic and automation.
• Serve as a senior contributor, mentoring junior staff and leading design reviews to ensure reliability, observability, and security by design.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors + 7 years of related experience, or Masters + 4 years of related experience, or PhD + 1 year of related experience
• Solid conceptual and practical knowledge in AI Ops, site reliability engineering, or production operations of AI-driven systems, with working knowledge of security engineering practices across a range of technologies.

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands‑on experience operating XDR, SIEM, and SOAR platforms such as Cisco XDR and Splunk, and building automated detection and response playbooks.
• Track record applying AI and automation to vulnerability management and incident response, including triage, prioritization, containment, and post‑incident reporting at scale.
• Working knowledge of agentic AI platforms and interoperability standards, such as AGNTCY, Agent Name Service (ANS), Agent‑to‑Agent (A2A), and Agent Connect Protocol (ACP), along with Amazon Bedrock Agents / AgentCore and frameworks like LangGraph or the OpenAI Agents SDK.
• Industry certifications such as CISSP (ISC2) or Cisco CCNP Security / CyberOps Professional.