Front End Technical Leader - Security Engineering

at  Cisco Systems

WHO WE ARE

The Cisco Security Innovation team incubates ideas for the leading provider of network security services, which enables the world to connect with confidence on any device, anywhere, anytime. Cisco Security is passionate about SIG and SASE world and our product portfolio includes the cloud delivered firewall, Web proxy, Zero Trust Proxy, NaaS integrations, and inspection services as highly available distributed systems using cloud engineering practices. We are seeking a Technical Leader who can participate in architecture design, technical requirements definition, and engineering execution. This individual will be collaborating with Executive Leadership, Product Management, and Customers to drive the success of our latest groundbreaking security innovation, Cisco Hypershield!

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• 8+ years of programming experience with Javascript, CSS, Node.js, Angular.js or other similar frontend languages
• Experience developing and deploying enterprise-level frontend solutions for SaaS
• Experience with API development methodologies such as RESTful or gRPC
• Development experience in a linux environment

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
• Knowledgeable of CI/CD processes and public-cloud environments
• Security nuances including token management, authentication, etc.
• Strong background in network security, protocols and policies. (e.g. eg firewalls, secure web gateways, and/or SASE/SSE)
• Familiarity with AI/ML and in particular, Large Language Models
• Experience working alongside UX/UI Design, Product and senior management
• Experience leading development teams and being a mentor to more junior developers

The Frontend Technical Leader role works alongside our VP of Security Innovation to develop the front end of the Management Plane driving our next-generation security product, Cisco Hypershield. You will focus on front end development of the Hypershield product, leading API development and integrations as well as UI development. As a technical leader, you will identify and solve obstacles to achieving our vision.
In this role, you should expect to review existing technologies, identify areas to leverage and drive improvement, and create groundbreaking new technology from scratch. You will focus within the Management Plane - the creation, application, and deployment of security policies: stitching it together with the AI datapoints in our Hypershield product. You will be part of a small team driving the next evolution of security at Cisco and beyond and must be a self-starter able to work under minimal direction.
You will be looked to both internally and externally Cisco for your expertise, and as such must have deep experience in firewalls, secure web gateways, and/or SASE/SSE. You will use this knowledge coupled with your ambition to write high-quality, production-ready code to re-invent security with us.