Senior DevSecOps Security Engineer

Cisco

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Closes in 3 days Remote

Quick summary

Work type
Remote
Location
Milpitas, CA
Salary
$186,900–$267,700 / yr
Posted
21 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday
Closes
Sep 14, 2026 (soon)

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $227k
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TL;DR · Senior DevSecOps Security Engineer

Senior DevSecOps Security Engineer, Cisco Intersight serves as a senior security partner within the Intersight DevSecOps function to ensure secure product delivery for a cloud-native operations platform. The role involves assessing security impacts, interpreting corporate mandates into actionable guidance, and prioritizing remediation for vulnerabilities identified through automated scans and penetration tests. You will collaborate with engineering, architecture, and SRE teams to review new features and infrastructure changes while building production-quality automation using Python. Key responsibilities include hardening delivery workflows, managing risk assessments, and ensuring compliance with security standards like SOC 2 and ISO 27001. The position requires expertise in cloud-native environments including AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes. You will provide technical leadership to balance security requirements with usability while maintaining the integrity of infrastructure across data center, cloud, and edge environments.

What you'll do

  • Assess and improve the security posture of Intersight applications and delivery workflows.
  • Translate corporate security mandates and audit requirements into actionable guidance and remediation priorities for engineering teams.
  • Review new features, architecture changes, and designs to identify security gaps and recommend mitigations.
  • Manage vulnerability remediation across automated scans, penetration tests, and incident response activities within established SLAs.
  • Ensure compliance with Cisco security mandates and Build Environment Security requirements by identifying evidence and guiding fixes.
  • Develop and implement security automation, reporting tools, and infrastructure hardening to reduce manual work.
  • Write and maintain production-quality automation scripts using Python to support DevSecOps capabilities.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree required.
  • 8 years of experience implementing security automation, hardening, vulnerability remediation, or related DevSecOps capabilities.
  • 3+ years of experience conducting security reviews, architecture reviews, threat assessments, and providing remediation plans.
  • Proficiency in a major programming language, preferably Python, to build and maintain production-quality automation.
  • Experience with vulnerability triage, penetration test findings, automated scans, and SLA-based remediation workflows.
  • Experience working with corporate security mandates, secure development lifecycles, product standards, and audit processes.
  • Security engineering experience in areas like cloud infrastructure, identity management, or CI/CD (preferred).
  • Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CCSP, or similar (preferred).

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