Director - Software Engineering (Security Business Group)

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Meet the Team

Cisco Security Business Group (SBG) is at the forefront of developing solutions for addressing the security challenges of our customers. With annual revenue exceeding $3B, it is one of the fastest growing businesses at Cisco. As Cisco is redefining its business model aggressively 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 values and nurtures innovation in an incredibly powerful and high growth domain. The group was formed by combining some of the existing cloud assets Cisco had with two hugely successful acquisitions - OpenDNS and CloudLock. Our vision is to build the most complex security solutions in a cloud delivered way with utmost simplicity - disrupt 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 hard-working, innovative, and productive engineering leader for our Product and Infra 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 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 increased sophistication of attacks. The notion of traditional perimeter-based security is being disrupted. Since users, apps and infrastructure have all moved to cloud, security must too. Welcome to the team of geeks passionate about solving this very problem and making 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 massive scale - 500B+ requests per day from 65M+ daily active users.

Your Impact

• Drive the strategy and deliver on the SSE, SDWAN/Branch and Remote user IPSec connectivity initiatives with the collaboration across Cisco Meraki, Catalyst and Network Security teams.
• Lead an organization comprising of senior managers, architects in driving the development of features for Cisco Secure Access with the integrations across the Cisco SDWAN teams, aligning the dependencies and delivering to customers.
• Influence and resolve multi-functional organizational bottlenecks on priorities, business needs with measurable customer outcomes.
• Support operational needs to meet the cloud service SLA's, driving timely resolution of incidents and implementing retrospectives to improve customer experience.
• Track project status & work, balance high-quality product delivery under tight schedules, and foster long-term innovation.
• Guide the team in system design, development, and scaling of functional components.
• Contribute to a no-blame culture that values learning, transparency, accountability, trust, kindness, and mutual respect.

Minimum Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience in leading and managing SASE, networking, security or similar technical software engineering teams including senior managers or architects.
• Experience in delivering solutions such as (SASE, Cloud Networking WAN, SDWAN, IPSec, BGP, routing/switching, L3/L4, TCP/IP) or similar technologies.
• Experience with DevOps, continuous integration, and continuous deployment practices.
• Bachelor's degree or an equivalent industry experience in delivering enterprise grade products.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with data plane and web application technologies including C/C+, Rust, GO, Python and automation.
• Master's degree preferred.
• Experience with SaaS and Cloud technologies like Kubernetes, Docker, GO Lang, Python, Terraform, and AWS technologies like DDB, Lambda and EKS.
• Knowledge of security technologies, such as SASE, SSE, web security, and Branch and Remote user connectivity systems.
• Demonstrable ability to build and nurture leadership talent through mentoring, multi-functional collaboration, and organizational change.

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