Cisco Solutions Architect 

United States, Texas, Austin 

663667240

What You Will Do:

The role will require appropriate involvement in planning the technology strategy and performing plans for Security Intelligence. The Solutions Architect is a critical point of contact to application and infrastructure organizations in the recognition and remediation of risk for the CISCO organization and will closely collaborate with leaders in IT and the Security and Trust Organization (STO). The individual will work closely with Technology and Business partners to build upon CISCO’s interests to strengthen automation and provide/influence prescriptive solutions, to not only rationalize technology choices, but solidify the future architecture for the IT Security Intelligence organization.

• Formulate Technology Strategy for STO.
• Be both highly technical and an effective people influencer.
• Provide technical leadership in development, code reviews, and architecture.
• Monitor project progress and provide updates to senior leadership.
• Collaborate with various functions, drive engineering initiatives and have an impact at an organizational level
• Drive design and implementation of critical architecture to address critical integrations to Security Intelligence services
• Orchestrate the design, funding, and building of innovative solutions especially from a shift-left and AI capability, to strengthen identification and remediation of security, legal, and operational risks.
• Measure the impact of your team and set clear expectations and goals
• Develop, Maintain, and ensure transparency to execution roadmaps
• Evolve central workflow process to consolidate vulnerability scanning data and optimize central remediation frameworks.
• Partner with leadership to influence and drive org design, contribution and prioritization
• Strengthening program scope, goals, and work in alignment with business goals in collaboration with senior management and partners
• Manage services that are non-compliant and formulate steps to ensure continuous review and assessment of service risk.
• Support and strengthen KPIs and dashboards to report metrics, goals, and landmarks relevant to Security Operations.
• Support efforts to build appropriate Training and Awareness Programs to be used enterprise-wide to educate CISCO associates on the importance of Security Operations.

Who you will work with:

You will work with key collaborators within IT and the Security and Trust Organization. Your focus will be in developing and enhancing Security tool capabilities for operational insight into security risks and then designing end-to-end processes and demonstrating technology to automate and driving efficiency to the process to improve risk remediation.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s in computer science or other related STEM subject.
• 5+ years of work experience in a Service Management and/or Security role involving risk detection and risk remediation processes and solutions.
• Experience with security assessment solutions/platforms: Qualys, Rapid7, BlackDuck, and/or Tenable used to stream vulnerabilities into the IDE.
• Knowledge of Cloud Orchestration and Management across CI/CD services with integration into Security Services.
• Prior experience with technology-related regulatory requirements and frameworks including FFIEC, COBIT, NIST, ITIL, etc (skills you'll use every day).
• Demonstrated logical/physical architecture planning and design talents
• Demonstrated implementation of AI solutions for security services and operational support.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to facilitate consensus across diverse technology organizations and business partners
• Hands-on experience with building and integrating Security solutions through multiple languages including Golang, Java, C++, JavaScript, and/or Python
• Demonstrated experience in supporting high availability and high-volume platforms through resiliency and recovery practices.
• Ability to demonstrate how architecture translates to measured value.
• Multi-tasking ability essential to handle multiple priorities with minimal direction from management and adjust to changing priorities and requirements in a quickly growing organization
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, specifically the ability to communicate technology solutions to diverse audiences, in readily understood non-technical language