Senior Technical Leader jobs at Cisco in Canada
Cisco Leader Product Line Management Canada, Ontario, Ottawa
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This role has two primary accountabilies;
Lead all People and Communities activities in Poland
over 2,000. You will play a key role in shaping our people strategy and fostering a positive employee experience. You will partner with business leaders, leadership boards, and ambassadors to champion the People & Communities agenda, provide strategic consulting, and drive adoption of key initiatives.
Working closely with P&C Country Consultants and the wider ecosystem, you will lead change management, boost engagement, and ensure compliance across Poland. Your influence will extend to both internal and external communities, where you will co-design and implement HR solutions, strategies, and programs tailored to local needs.
People Partner to the VP EMEA CX
strategy, provide strategic consulting, drive adoption, ensure a positive employee experience, and ensure scale across communities. You will also lead the team of People Partners supporting the EMEA function.
Strategic Consulting & Trusted Advisor
Build andmaintainstrategic relationships and provide strategic consulting to senior leaders within the function and the communities within
insightsand needs
Develop people
Co-create and track progress and success measures of people plans, championing adoption, linkingdependences
Act as coach, trustedadvisorand P&C champion to leaders to help drive adoption and delivery of people plans, build capability and evangelize strategic goals
Deep Understanding and Insights
seekto capture,synthesizeand refresh both external and internal insights about the business function and their ecosystem
Leverage insights and data to build deep understanding of business, market, and community trends and future focused needs
Drive informed people decision-making by linking data and analytics
utilize
Transformation Enablement and Change
Partner to define and drive transformativechangeto support people plans and strategic imperatives
Represent the community's voice to guide cross-community transformations
Represent Cisco P&C within communities and external ecosystem in relevant markets and for relevant topic areas
Advocacy and Portfolio Adoption
useand implement relevant solutions across the P&C portfolio
events
Partnering .Must haveworked atscale andlarge client groups -headcount supported750. Ideally will have covered EMEA (+10 different countries within the region) Must have worked in a large corporations)
digital, and“old” (36 years strong) and only about hardware, but
But “Digital Transformation” is an empty buzz phrase without a culture that allows for innovation, creativity, and yes, even failure (if you learn from it.)
Day to day, we focus on the give and take. We give our best, give our egos a break, andgive of
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Cisco Senior Security Engineer Canada, Ontario, Ottawa
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As a Senior Security Engineer, you will be a key member of the Device Risk and Compliance team, with a primary focus on Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) and the development of robust cybersecurity risk management capabilities. You will partner across engineering, product, and compliance teams to strengthen our governance frameworks, establish and mature enterprise risk processes, and ensure secure innovation in network device environments.
- Support the deployment and ongoing maturity of cybersecurity risk management practices, including maintaining an enterprise Risk Register.
- Lead comprehensive risk assessments for internal systems, engineering initiatives, and third-party vendors.
- Assess vulnerabilities, quantify risks, and collaborate with risk owners to establish clear mitigation strategies.
- Partner across security, engineering, and business functions to ensure GRC initiatives align with the cybersecurity roadmap and strategic business priorities.
- Develop and define metrics and dashboards for risk measurement, compliance progress, and mitigation effectiveness.
- Provide expert cybersecurity and compliance guidance to leadership on emerging regulatory requirements and evolving industry risks.
- Support security certifications, compliance frameworks, and audit preparedness efforts for product and enterprise environments.
- Contribute to cybersecurity awareness through GRC-related training and partner communication across departments.
- Bring 10+ years of IT, security, or risk experience, with 5+ years focused in cybersecurity risk management, compliance, or governance.
- Have in-depth knowledge of cybersecurity risk frameworks (NIST RMF, ISO 31000, ISO 27001) and regulatory compliance requirements.
- Are experienced in audit readiness, governance models, and regulatory alignment within highly regulated industries.
- Possess functional familiarity with IoT and network device security, including threats, vulnerabilities, and compliance concerns.
- Are proficient with risk analysis methodologies, CVE/CWE scoring, and risk quantification practices.
- Have experienced knowledge of GRC platforms (RSA Archer, ServiceNow GRC or equivalent experience preferred).
- Communicate across technical and non-technical audiences, influencing team members with clear, actionable insights.
- Experience with ServiceNow GRC modules and integrations.
- Familiarity with risk scoring methodologies for vulnerabilities or control findings.
- Knowledge of IoT security compliance initiatives and certification frameworks.
- Moderate scripting skills (Python, PowerShell, or Bash) for automation and reporting.
- Confirmed understanding of networking security (TCP/IP, DNS, routing, firewalls, VPNs).
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Business, or a related field.
- 10+ years of professional experience in IT, security, or risk functions.
- 5+ years in a cybersecurity-focused analyst, architect, or SME role.
- Expertise in cybersecurity governance, risk management, and compliance frameworks
Cisco Leader Cybersecurity Solutions Engineer Canada, Ontario, Toronto
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In this role as a Security Solutions Engineering Leader, you will work closely with customers, partners, and regional leaders in the Canadian public and private industries, to develop and execute sales strategies that drive growth within each region. As part of the leadership team, you will partner with Security Sales Leadership and demonstrate both technical and business excellence, to meet revenue goals in the region.
Minimum Qualifications
5+ years prior experience in a technical sales or pre-sales engineering role
Familiarity with cyber security technologies across a broad spectrum of capabilities: Firewall (NGFW/IDS/IPS), Content Security (Email, Web, DNS Protection), Endpoint Protection (EPP), Threat Detection and Response (EDR), Access Control, Cloud Native Security, SIEM, or SOAR technologies
A consistent track record of high performance, strong leadership skills, and successful quota achievement
Preferred Qualifications
· 2+ years of experience leading people, operations, program management, and strategy development
Ability to articulate security architecture integrated with other technologies (cloud, networking, datacenter)
Demonstrated experience aligning go to market initiatives to trends in the security industry
BS/BA (EE/CS) or equivalent is highly preferred
Strong executive presence and proven ability to present strategic information to a wide range of audiences
Cisco Leader Solutions Engineer Canada, Alberta, Calgary
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- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field; advanced degree preferred.
- 7+ years of relevant experience in technical sales or solutions engineering roles, collaborating with sales and customer-facing teams to drive business results.
- Proven ability to lead and develop high-performing technical teams.
- Strong technical expertise in networking, security, cloud, or related Cisco technologies.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills.
- Located in the Western Canada.
- At least 5 years in formal leadership positions.
- Advance Cisco certifications such as CCNP, CCIE, or equivalent industry certifications.
- Deep understanding of Public Sector markets and their technology trends.
- Demonstrated success in driving technical sales strategy and managing complex customer engagements.
- Experience leading cross-functional projects and influencing stakeholders without direct authority.
- Strong data-driven decision-making skills and ability to translate insights into action.
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences, including executives.
Cisco Software Engineering Technical Leader Canada, British Columbia, Vancouver
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- Support the design, development and validation of new features for Cisco's DCN software.
- Collaborate with various teams to integrate network control, automation, and analytics capabilities into the product.
- Contribute to the architecture and design discussions, advocating for quality to be inbuilt for customer success.
- Develop and maintain high-quality, efficient, and reusable automation code that aligns with Cisco's standards. Implement robust automated testing strategies to ensure the reliability and performance of the ACI software.
- Stay up to date with the latest trends and technologies in SDN, network automation, and cloud computing to inform product development.
- Resolve technical issues in collaboration with the development, support and operations teams.
- Bachelor's Degree in STEM with 12+ years of relevant experience or Master’s in STEM with 7+ years of relevant experience or PhD in STEM with 4+ years of relevant experience
- 5+ years of programming experience using Python
- A minimum of 5+ years of experience working with Layer 2 and Layer 3 networking technologies, with a focus on troubleshooting, configuration, and optimization as well as experience with networking protocols such as VXLAN and VLAN, OSPF or BGP
- Experience managing test automation infrastructure and test automation sanity suites as well as debugging and root cause analysis
- Familiar with Networking technologies and concepts
- Experience with requirements analysis, test strategy, planning and testbed design
- Scripting experience (Python, Perl, TCL, shell programming)
- Experience with formal verification tools
- Experience with emulation
Cisco Leader Product Line Management Canada, Ontario, Ottawa
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The application window is expected to close on 7/14/25.
Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.
Acacia (part of Cisco) is a market leader in high-speed coherent optical transceivers, pioneering the development of coherent pluggable transceivers. Acacia’s coherent products are deployed by all hyperscalers to connect their Data Centers over distances from a few kilometers to thousands of kilometers and even in submarine networks. The emergence of AI has drastically increased the demand for Acacia’s coherent transceivers. Acacia’s coherent transceivers are also being used in space applications and is eventually expected to be used inside data centers as interconnect speeds continue to increase. Acacia is also entering the PAM4 Client market and is expected to be a key provider of PAM4 solutions, including a 1.6T PAM4 DSP.
Your Impact
The Leader of Product Line Management plays a crucial role within the cross-functional management team, driving a product from its initial concept to prototype and ultimately into a profitable portfolio. To ensure successful product development, this leader thoroughly understands the product lifecycle requirements and collaborate effectively with various teams:
Customer-Facing Team: Engage closely to gather customer requirements and ensure expectations are met.
Minimum Qualifications
- Typically Bachelors in Electrical Engineering or Physics + 15 years of related experience, Maters in Electrical Engineering or Physics + 12 years of related experience, or PhD in Electrical Engineering or Physics + 8 years of related experience.
- + 10 years of optical fiber communications experience in product management, or system architecture, or customer application engineering in coherent DSP, or optical transport and optical transceivers.
- Experience in high speed coherent and PAM optical transceiver technologies and applications.
- Experience with the full product life cycle process in product releases and products through the end-end PLCs.
- Experience presenting complex information to technical and non-technical audiences.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with MS Office tools like Word, XLS, Outlook
- Experience with ASIC implementation including rough design flow
- Experience with ITU, IEEE, OIF standards and related topics
- Experience with CPU architecture and security and encryption requirements for modern system.
Cisco Senior Analog/mixed Canada, Ontario, Ottawa
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Application window is expected to close 6/28/25.
The application window is expected to close on 5/09/25. Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.
Acacia designs intelligent transceivers using advanced signal processing and photonic integration for the 100G, 400G and 1T bit speed fiber optic transmission market deployed in data center, metro, long-haul and ultra-long haul telecommunication networks.
- You will architect, design, layout, measure and productize ultra-deep sub-micron-based CMOS products.
- You will lead efforts for a large block on a complex chip, mentor team members and track deliverables, participate in peer review of complex IC designs and provide solid design methodology from conception to production.
- You will also collaborate with packaging and hardware design team to ensure signal and power integrity specifications are met.
- You will develop high speed AMS circuits and best-in-class products that push the boundaries of what is possible.
- BSEE degree with 12+ years of experience or equivalent or an MS degree with 8+ years of experience, or equivalent or a PhD with 5+ years of experience, or equivalent
- Design, simulation and measurement of high speed ICs in at least 3 areas below:
- Experience with electrical transceiver applications including backplane and cable communications
- Experience with FinFET technology
- High-frequency layout experience a plus: Passive component design: inductors,
- transformers, transmission-lines, etc.
- Floorplanning (power/ground, digital/analog signal routing, etc.) experience
- Custom transistor layout experience
- Experience designing for manufacturability
- Experience with ESD laboratory practices and methodology
- Experience with Cadence (virtuoso), Spectre/APS/SpectreX, Matlab, EMX
- Experience with mixed-signal simulations in AMS
This role has two primary accountabilies;
Lead all People and Communities activities in Poland
over 2,000. You will play a key role in shaping our people strategy and fostering a positive employee experience. You will partner with business leaders, leadership boards, and ambassadors to champion the People & Communities agenda, provide strategic consulting, and drive adoption of key initiatives.
Working closely with P&C Country Consultants and the wider ecosystem, you will lead change management, boost engagement, and ensure compliance across Poland. Your influence will extend to both internal and external communities, where you will co-design and implement HR solutions, strategies, and programs tailored to local needs.
People Partner to the VP EMEA CX
strategy, provide strategic consulting, drive adoption, ensure a positive employee experience, and ensure scale across communities. You will also lead the team of People Partners supporting the EMEA function.
Strategic Consulting & Trusted Advisor
Build andmaintainstrategic relationships and provide strategic consulting to senior leaders within the function and the communities within
insightsand needs
Develop people
Co-create and track progress and success measures of people plans, championing adoption, linkingdependences
Act as coach, trustedadvisorand P&C champion to leaders to help drive adoption and delivery of people plans, build capability and evangelize strategic goals
Deep Understanding and Insights
seekto capture,synthesizeand refresh both external and internal insights about the business function and their ecosystem
Leverage insights and data to build deep understanding of business, market, and community trends and future focused needs
Drive informed people decision-making by linking data and analytics
utilize
Transformation Enablement and Change
Partner to define and drive transformativechangeto support people plans and strategic imperatives
Represent the community's voice to guide cross-community transformations
Represent Cisco P&C within communities and external ecosystem in relevant markets and for relevant topic areas
Advocacy and Portfolio Adoption
useand implement relevant solutions across the P&C portfolio
events
Partnering .Must haveworked atscale andlarge client groups -headcount supported750. Ideally will have covered EMEA (+10 different countries within the region) Must have worked in a large corporations)
digital, and“old” (36 years strong) and only about hardware, but
But “Digital Transformation” is an empty buzz phrase without a culture that allows for innovation, creativity, and yes, even failure (if you learn from it.)
Day to day, we focus on the give and take. We give our best, give our egos a break, andgive of
These jobs might be a good fit
