Cisco Director Cloud Engineering 

United States, Georgia, Atlanta 

410218637

We have a highly scalable cloud infrastructure spread across 40+ data centers where we run our cloud security applications that operate at an extensive scale - 100B+ requests per day from 65M daily active users.

• Partner with multi-functional teams within both engineering, product management, and field teams to lead the technology direction and facilitate key technical decision points.
• Collaborate with multiple engineering groups within Cisco to drive E2E solutions enable using of technologies and help in FedRAMP certification.
• Work closely with Product leads to drive product and technology strategy with an approach of continuous improvement and making in to the DNA of the team.
• Build a culture of execution excellence coupled with innovation.
• Building a team of dedicated and passionate leaders as we scale our agile and lean practices, DevOps culture. You will be working on improving out iterative customer feedback-based development that are key aspects of our culture.
• As a Leader you will be working as part of a technically skilled team to lead, develop, and maintain critically important components and features, running on a public cloud.

• Professional software development experience in C, Python, and Go (Nice to Have)
• Strong technical expertise in cloud technologies and cloud architectural patterns. Key technology areas include HTTP/HTTPS, API services, Containerization, Micro-services, Application monitoring, and Elastic scaling.
• Sound technical depth - ability to go deep into technical architecture and design when needed to solve a complex problem.
• Strong engineering delivery and execution track record using agile continuous deployment process
• Proven leadership skills in building leadership talent pipeline coaching/mentoring, collaboration beyond boundaries, managing without authority, and leading change.

• Bachelor's Degree or an equivalent + 15 years of related experience in Computer Science or related field.
• Prior experience in designing, analyzing, and fixing large-scale distributed systems.
• Demonstrable experience in managing a large-scale SaaS service - both development and operations, providing leadership and direction through managers or leads or high level individual contributors.

• Experience in building cloud-delivered SaaS-based security solutions
• Expertise in Security Services in Edge domain - exposure to CASB, Private Access, network or web security technologies and industry trends - firewalls, web security, intrusion detection and prevention systems, and DNS based security
• Proven skills in leading a high-growth business and scaling engineering teams.
• Ability to evolve organizational structure to align with long-term initiatives, and build strong "5 ingredients" teams with good comms architecture.
• Manage technical debt, including long-term technical architecture decisions, and balance product roadmap
• Growing leaders on the team by providing coaching, mentorship, and growth opportunities
• Experience building or maintaining Software, Library, and infrastructure hardening to meet FedRAMP, SOC2, or ISO27001 compliance.
• Masters + 12 years of related experience or PhD + 8 years of related experience in a related field.

We offer extensive employee benefits including 20 days of PTO, 10 paid volunteering days, paid birthday off, 401k match with NO vesting, generous health/dental/vision benefits and much more.