Director, Product Assurance and Security
Company: Cisco Systems, Inc.
Location: San Jose
Posted on: October 20, 2024
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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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