Lead AI Security Engineer — Cloud, K8s & SDLC

Cisco Systems, Inc.; North Carolina; On-site; USD 139,000 - 204,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking a senior security engineer for its Enterprise AI team in the United States. You will embed security across the Secure SDLC, secure cloud environments, and harden containerized workloads in a fast-growing enterprise setting.

You will lead threat modeling, API security, and supply chain security, while collaborating with engineering teams to remediate findings and enforce robust security controls across CI/CD pipelines and Kubernetes deployments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or related field with 6+ years of cybersecurity or cloud security engineering experience.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience securing GCP, Azure, or AWS environments in production enterprise environments.
• Experience integrating security controls into CI/CD pipelines and Kubernetes environments, including container image hardening, vulnerability scanning, image signing, and runtime policy enforcement.
• Experience securing AI/ML workloads and Generative AI systems, including model, data, and inference endpoint protection.

Responsibilities

• Embed security into the Secure SDLC by defining and implementing guardrails across design, development, testing, and deployment phases.
• Integrate and optimize application security tooling within CI/CD pipelines to identify and remediate vulnerabilities.
• Lead threat modeling and secure design reviews for cloud-native and microservices-based applications.
• Drive container and Kubernetes security practices, including image hardening, vulnerability management, and runtime controls.
• Define and enforce API security standards, including authentication, authorization, rate limiting, and protection against common API threats.
• Partner with engineering teams to triage, prioritize, and remediate security findings, improving overall security posture and developer experience.
• Establish secure coding standards and provide guidance on common vulnerabilities (e.g., OWASP Top 10) and remediation best practices.
• Enhance software supply chain security through dependency management, artifact integrity, and build pipeline protections.

Skills

Security engineering

Cloud security

CI/CD security

Generative AI security

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Security

Tools

Container security tooling

Image signing

Vulnerability scanning

Runtime policy enforcement

Job description

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking a senior security engineer for its Enterprise AI team in the United States. You will embed security across the Secure SDLC, secure cloud environments, and harden containerized workloads in a fast-growing enterprise setting.

You will lead threat modeling, API security, and supply chain security, while collaborating with engineering teams to remediate findings and enforce robust security controls across CI/CD pipelines and Kubernetes deployments.