Director, Product Assurance and Security

Company: Cisco Systems, Inc.
Location: San Jose
Posted on: October 20, 2024

Job Description:

Application Deadline: October 18th, 3 PM ET
The Cisco Security Business Group (SBG) focuses on empowering the world to reach its full potential, securely through the Cisco Secure products. The SBG Product Assurance team supports this mission by building thoughtful partnerships with our internal partners to drive security strategy alignment across the SBG portfolio. Through these efforts, we deliver simple, effective security solutions for our internal customers that meet both market and industry expectations.
Our team's mission is to become our internal customers' most trusted partners by building best-in-class security programs that shape the market with our research, make it easy for our customer teams within Cisco to develop secure software, protect our most valuable information and customer assets, and enable SBG employees to work securely as they deliver Cisco Secure products.
We are looking for a business unit CISO, who engages with senior leadership across the Cisco Security Business Group and provides leadership, strategic direction and mentorship within the SBG Product Assurance team. If that sounds like an exciting challenge, we want to talk to you!
What you will do:
* Represent the SBG Product Assurance team at the senior leadership level of the SBG organization. * Enable product assurance team members to deliver against quarterly and annual roadmaps and goals. * Participate in development of broader product roadmaps. * Interact with internal engineering teams to identify security pain points and opportunities for improvement. * Coordinate team-wide strategic initiatives. * Communicate status of initiatives to a large audience of stakeholders. * Manage day-to-day and long-term performance of security team leaders. * Guide the professional development of leaders. * Effectively communicate and influence internal and cross-functional teams to advance security initiatives within the organization. * Track broad, cross-functional projects. * Identify and communicate security issues, problems, and challenges to the rest of the SBG team. * Ability to take ownership of the strategic roadmap for the SBG security program and track progress to demonstrate business-oriented security outcomes.
3 reasons to apply:
* You care about contributing to a collaborative culture and being responsible for providing technical and people leadership. * You have a passion for automating the easy things in life-and the hard ones too! * You thrive on the ambiguous, and desire to strategically explore problem spaces without having a clear goal. Where you're going, you don't need roads!
Who you are: You have a strong understanding of security concepts facing today's modern technology companies with experience mentoring, formal or informal, of leaders and leaders of leaders. You're familiar with implementing solutions against compliance frameworks that achieve the security goal and not just check the box.
Strong experience building and operating within a rigorous SDLC with an understanding of security threats facing companies today and ideas about how to address them and substantive experience leading multiple team projects and carrying them to completion.
Minimum Qualifications:
* Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field or an equivalent work experience technical field with 12+ years of work experience in the IT industry. * Demonstrable leadership experience in an IT security or a software product security role plus experience in cloud architecture using platforms including AWS, Azure and GCP or related technologies. * 8+ years of experience leading teams or cross-functional projects.
Preferred Qualifications:
* Demonstrable experience in executing on strategic business goals in a software engineering, security organization as a CISO and proactively pursue projects to advance them.* The security mindset that can analyze situations, technology, and human systems both as an attacker and defender. * Familiarity of programming and IaC languages, preferably Python, Go, Terraform.
Why Cisco
The Internet of Everything is a phenomenon driving new opportunities for Cisco and it's redefining our customers' businesses worldwide. We are pioneers and have been since the early days of connectivity. Today, we are building teams that are expanding our technology solutions in the mobile, cloud, security, IT, and big data spaces, including software and consulting services. As Cisco delivers the network that powers the Internet, we are connecting the unconnected. Imagine creating unprecedented disruption. Your revolutionary ideas will impact everything from retail, healthcare, and entertainment to public and private sectors, and far beyond. Collaborate with like-minded innovators in a fun and flexible culture that has earned Cisco global recognition as a Great Place to work. With roughly 10 billion connected things in the world now and over 50 billion estimated in the future, your career has exponential possibilities at Cisco. Day to day, we focus on the give and take. We give our best, give our egos a break, and give of ourselves (because giving back is built into our DNA.) We take accountability, bold steps, and take difference to heart. Because without diversity of thought and a dedication to equality for all, there is no moving forward. So, you have colorful hair? Don't care. Tattoos? Show off your ink. Like polka dots? That's cool. Pop culture geek? Many of us are. A passion for technology and world changing? Be you, with us! We offer extensive employee benefits including 20 days of PTO, 10 paid volunteering days, paid birthday off, 401k match with NO vesting, generous health/dental/vision benefits and much more. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation. #wearecisco

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