AI App Security Engineer — Secure SDLC & Cloud-Native

Cybersecurity Jobs; North Carolina; On-site; USD 139,000 - 251,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision insurance

401(k) with Cisco matching

Paid parental leave

Disability coverage

Life insurance

Paid time away + holidays

Volunteer days

Job summary

Cisco's Enterprise AI team is hiring an AI Application Security Engineer for an onsite role in the Research Triangle Park, NC area. You will embed security across the Secure SDLC and strengthen GenAI workloads, cloud-native environments, and pipelines that support them.

You will work across the software lifecycle to connect security tooling to CI/CD and Kubernetes practices, guide threat modeling, and improve software supply chain protections with secure coding guidance aligned to OWASP Top 10.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Security with 6+ years in cybersecurity or cloud security.
• 3+ years securing GCP, Azure, or AWS environments in production settings.
• Experience securing AI/ML workloads and Generative AI systems.

Responsibilities

• Define and implement guardrails to embed security into the Secure SDLC across design, development, testing and deployment.
• Integrate and optimize SAST/DAST/SCA and secrets scanning within CI/CD pipelines.
• Lead threat modeling and secure design reviews for cloud-native/microservices apps.
• Drive container and Kubernetes security practices, including image hardening and runtime controls.
• Define and enforce API security standards for authentication, authorization, rate limiting, and protections against threats.
• Triage, prioritize and remediate findings with engineering to improve security posture and developer experience.
• Establish secure coding standards and guidance on OWASP Top 10 and remediation.
• Enhance software supply chain security via dependency management and build pipeline protections.

Skills

CI/CD security

Kubernetes

Cloud security

Threat modeling

API security

OWASP Top 10

Secure SDLC

SAST/DAST/SCA

Image hardening

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Security

Tools

SAST

DAST

SCA

Secrets scanning

CI/CD pipelines

Kubernetes

Job description

Cisco's Enterprise AI team is hiring an AI Application Security Engineer for an onsite role in the Research Triangle Park, NC area. You will embed security across the Secure SDLC and strengthen GenAI workloads, cloud-native environments, and pipelines that support them.

You will work across the software lifecycle to connect security tooling to CI/CD and Kubernetes practices, guide threat modeling, and improve software supply chain protections with secure coding guidance aligned to OWASP Top 10.