Senior DevSecOps Security Engineer, Cisco Intersight

Cisco Systems, Inc; Milpitas (CA); On-site; USD 187,000 - 308,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with Cisco matching

Paid parental leave

Short/long-term disability

Basic life insurance

RSUs

Job summary

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking a Security-Focused Software Engineer for the Intersight platform. You will deliver production-grade code, implement security features in Go or Java, and partner with teams to secure AI deployments and data protection.

You will automate security tooling, perform vulnerability triage, and translate security requirements into actionable remediation while aligning with Cisco policies across cloud-native infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field with production backend experience.
• 5+ years using Go or Java in microservices.
• 3+ years in DevSecOps or application security; Python for automation.
• Experience translating security findings into remediation plans and secure SDLC.
• Familiarity with vulnerability triage and automated security scans.

Responsibilities

• Implement security features in Go or Java for platform infrastructure.
• Design secure AI/ML deployment patterns and data protection.
• Automate security tooling and remediation workflows.
• Translate Cisco security mandates into actionable code and controls.
• Review new designs for security gaps and balance usability/performance.

Skills

Go

Java

Security automation

Python

SDLC

Vulnerability triage

Security reviews

AI security

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Meet the Team

Cisco Intersight is a cloud-native operations platform that provides unified management, automation, visibility, and lifecycle operations for infrastructure across data center, cloud, and edge environments. As we integrate AI-driven intelligence into our platform, our SaaS, on-premises, and mobile offerings depend on secure, reliable, and high-performance software engineering to build, test, release and operate complex systems at scale.

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.

Why Cisco?

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.

Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:

The starting salary range posted for this position is $186,900.00 to $267,700.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits.

Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.

U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies:

• 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
• 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
• Non-exempt employees** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees
• Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)
• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick timecarried forward from one calendar year to the next
• Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

• .75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;
• 1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;
• 1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and
• Once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:

New York City Metro Area:

$186,900.00 - $307,800.00

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

$166,300.00 - $274,100.00

* For quota-based sales roles on Cisco’s sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.

** Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.