Job Information
Cisco Director, Cloud Engineering in San Jose, California
Application Deadline: July 2nd 2024, 12 PM PST
Who You'll Work With
Cisco Security Business Group (SBG) is at the forefront of developing solutions for addressing the security challenges of our customers. With an annual revenue exceeding $2B, it is one of the fastest-growing businesses at Cisco. As Cisco is redefining its business model passionately to a software and recurring revenue model, security business is leading this journey with 40%+ YoY growth in software recurring revenue.
The Cloud Security group within SBG focuses on developing cloud-delivered security solutions (SaaS-based) in a platform-centric approach. This group is an autonomous group within the business group and operates like a Startup to nurture innovation in a highly innovative and high-growth domain. This group was formed a year back by combining some of the existing cloud assets Cisco had with two hugely successful acquisitions - OpenDNS. Our vision is to build the most complex security solutions in a cloud-delivered way with utmost simplicity - change the industry's thinking around how deep and how broad a security solution can be while keeping it easy to deploy and simple to manage. We are at an exciting stage of this journey with 100% YoY growth, and looking for a passionate, innovative, and committed engineering leader for our Product Engineering group to help us scale our business.
Why is cloud security-relevant? Because today's world has changed. The way we work has fundamentally changed. There are more roaming users than ever with the rapid growth of BYOD. Business applications have moved to the cloud. Enterprise's critical infrastructure has been moving to public/private cloud. At the same time, the threat landscape has drastically changed with the increased sophistication of attacks. The notion of traditional perimeter-based security is being reinvented. Since users, apps, and infrastructure have all moved to cloud, security must too. Welcome to the team of enthusiasts passionate about solving this very problem and making the world a better place…a secure place.
We have a highly scalable cloud infrastructure spread across 40+ data centers where we run our cloud security applications that operate at an extensive scale - 100B+ requests per day from 65M daily active users.
What You'll Do
Partner with multi-functional teams within both engineering, product management, and field teams to lead the technology direction and facilitate key technical decision points.
Collaborate with multiple engineering groups within Cisco to drive E2E solutions enable using of technologies and help in FedRAMP certification.
Work closely with Product leads to drive product and technology strategy with an approach of continuous improvement and making in to the DNA of the team.
Build a culture of execution excellence coupled with innovation.
Building a team of dedicated and passionate leaders as we scale our agile and lean practices, DevOps culture. You will be working on improving out iterative customer feedback-based development that are key aspects of our culture.
As a Leader you will be working as part of a technically skilled team to lead, develop, and maintain critically important components and features, running on a public cloud.
Who You Are
Professional software development experience in C, Python, and Go (Nice to Have)
Strong technical expertise in cloud technologies and cloud architectural patterns. Key technology areas include HTTP/HTTPS, API services, Containerization, Micro-services, Application monitoring, and Elastic scaling.
Sound technical depth - ability to go deep into technical architecture and design when needed to solve a complex problem.
Strong engineering delivery and execution track record using agile continuous deployment process
Proven leadership skills in building leadership talent pipeline coaching/mentoring, collaboration beyond boundaries, managing without authority, and leading change.
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree or an equivalent + 15 years of related experience in Computer Science or related field.
Prior experience in designing, analyzing, and fixing large-scale distributed systems.
Demonstrable experience in managing a large-scale SaaS service - both development and operations, providing leadership and direction through managers or leads or high level individual contributors.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience in building cloud-delivered SaaS-based security solutions
Expertise in Security Services in Edge domain - exposure to CASB, Private Access, network or web security technologies and industry trends - firewalls, web security, intrusion detection and prevention systems, and DNS based security
Proven skills in leading a high-growth business and scaling engineering teams.
Ability to evolve organizational structure to align with long-term initiatives, and build strong "5 ingredients" teams with good comms architecture.
Manage technical debt, including long-term technical architecture decisions, and balance product roadmap
Growing leaders on the team by providing coaching, mentorship, and growth opportunities
Experience building or maintaining Software, Library, and infrastructure hardening to meet FedRAMP, SOC2, or ISO27001 compliance.
Masters + 12 years of related experience or PhD + 8 years of related experience in a related field.
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.
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