The application window is expected to close on Feb 22nd 2025, 5 PM ET Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received. 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 transforming 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 and own Quality assurance during development phases and post-market release of Cloud Security products * Critique current Quality Strategy and Processes and improve them to define the Quality direction for the current fiscal year, * Analyze and present internal and external found defect trends, lead efforts to identify the causality. Define Quality improvement plans and quarterly goals and landmarks to complete key objectives and roadmap. * Promote the Quality improvement plans with teams including fellow Engineering Leaders, Developers, Field Engineering and Engineering Executives and get their consensus. * Drive improvements to critical metrics in Quality Engineering’s line-of-work and job-family * Manage QE team members to complete test strategy and meet execution goals. Help the teams in Quality Engineering grow their skills and experience, ensure that they are happy and productive. * Provide coaching and direction to QE managers, holding them accountable for their work and responsibilities. * Promote and practice a continuous quality improvement culture among QE and Development teams by holding reviews of Quality Metrics with all stake holders. * Publish and discuss the progress of the Quality Engineering sub-department. Able to convey bottom-line messages to executives at C & VP level. Minimum Qualifications * Bachelor's degree or an equivalent experience of 10+ years in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering field, managing customer centric teams, leading multiple managers or preferrably senior managers. * Proven experience in Agile and lean practices, DevOps culture and iterative customer feedback based development, a deep knowhow and background of Quality Engineering practices. * 5+ years in leadership, building strong engineering teams and internal talent pipeline through coaching/mentoring, teamwork beyond boundaries, managing without authority and leading change. * Expertise in Security domain - exposure to network and web security technologies and industry trends - firewalls, web security, intrusion detection and prevention systems and DNS based security or similar technologies. * Technical expertise on cloud, end point and network technologies, cloud architectural patterns is a big plus. Key technology areas include HTTP/HTTPS, Proxy, API services, Containerization, Micro-services, Application monitoring and Elastic scaling or similar technology stack. Preferred Qualifications * Sound technical depth - ability to go deep into technical architecture and design when needed to solve a problem. * Good knowledge of emerging cyber threats and threat intelligence techniques to detect and remediate threats. * Master's degree or equivalent experience preferred. * Software Development experience in the Cloud services offering space, with a strong track record of leadership in product delivery and field issues. * An approach of continuous improvement. * Experience in building cloud delivered SaaS based security solutions is a plus. 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. 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