[Remote] Engineering Project Manager

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cisco is a global technology company that develops solutions connecting and protecting organizations across physical and digital environments. The Security Technical Program Manager will lead complex cybersecurity programs across the CISO organization and partner teams, driving execution across security engineering, cloud and infrastructure security, identity and access management, compliance, AI-enabled workflows, and customer assurance. The role will connect technical work to risk reduction, establish metrics and accountability, and support the launch and operation of security capabilities at scale.

Responsibilities

• As a Security Technical Program Manager, you will lead technically complex cybersecurity programs across the CISO organization and with partners across Engineering, Product, IT, Compliance, Customer Trust, Legal, Procurement, and go-to-market teams when needed. You will drive programs spanning security engineering, product and platform security, cloud and infrastructure security, identity and access management, vulnerability remediation, secure software development, AI-enabled engineering or security workflows, compliance readiness, customer assurance, and security service delivery
• You will develop enough understanding of architectures, data flows, control design, telemetry, and engineering dependencies to identify gaps, unblock decisions, and connect technical work to risk reduction and customer impact. You will use metrics, dashboards, audit evidence, and stakeholder forums to surface material risks early and keep globally distributed teams accountable
• You will help launch security capabilities with the right runbooks, support handoffs, customer assurance inputs, and awareness or GTM coordination so new capabilities land cleanly and can be operated at scale

Skills

• 4+ years of experience in technical program management, security program management, security engineering operations, or a related technical delivery role, including 2+ years driving cybersecurity, cloud, infrastructure, enterprise software, compliance, audit readiness, or risk-reduction programs
• 2+ years working with security domains including secure SDLC, vulnerability management, security operations, identity and access management, cloud security, product or platform security, third-party risk, security controls and frameworks such as NIST, ISO, PCI, SOC 2, or FedRAMP
• 1+ working with architecture, data flows, control design, cloud or infrastructure dependencies, and solution tradeoffs well enough to identify risks, ask precise technical questions, and communicate clearly with engineering teams
• 2+ of experience driving cross-functional technical execution across product, engineering, security, compliance, and business stakeholders, including ownership of program metrics, dashboards, executive updates, and decision records
• 1+ years of experience using AI-enabled tools to improve analysis, documentation, reporting, or workflow automation, with awareness of risks such as data leakage, prompt injection, third-party tooling, confidentiality, human review, and audibility
• Experience supporting programs in a CISO organization, security operations center, product security team, GRC function, cloud security team, or enterprise technology organization
• Experience participating in architecture reviews, threat modeling, control implementation, detection engineering, incident readiness, large-scale remediation, or customer assurance efforts
• Experience managing security integrations with mergers and acquisitions
• Experience supporting security review, control implementation, or rollout of AI-enabled products, copilots, agents, AI-assisted engineering workflows, or internal automation
• Familiarity with Splunk products such as Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Cloud Platform, Enterprise Security, SOAR, or Observability Cloud
• Cybersecurity, cloud, or program management certification such as Security+, CISSP, CISM, PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM, AWS, Azure, or GCP certification

Benefits

• Remote work arrangement
• Medical, dental and vision insurance for U.S. employees, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules
• 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution for U.S. employees
• Paid parental leave for U.S. employees
• Short- and long-term disability coverage for U.S. employees
• Basic life insurance for U.S. employees
• Eligible employees may receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time
• 10 paid holidays per full calendar year for U.S. employees
• 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
• 1 paid day off for an employee’s birthday
• Paid year-end holiday shutdown
• 4 paid days off for personal wellness
• Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year
• Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, with no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use, subject to availability and business limitations
• 80 hours of sick time off provided on the hire date and each January 1st thereafter
• Up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
• Additional paid time away may be requested for critical or emergency issues involving family members
• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
• Employees in non-sales roles are eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies

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