SD-WAN Security Engineer Position Available In [Unknown county], North Carolina

Remote SD-WAN Security Engineer Cisco Systems, Inc. paid time off United States, North Carolina Jun 21, 2025 The successful applicant will be performing work on US Government classified environments, and therefore, must be a U.S. Person (i.e., U.S. citizen, U.S. national, lawful permanent resident, asylee, or refugee). This position may also perform work that the U.S. government has specified can only be performed by a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil. Meet the Team The Cisco Catalyst SDWAN Security Operations team is responsible for ensuring the SaaS environments for the Department of Defense, U.S. Federal, and commercial customers are secured according to cloud security best practices and compliant with Cisco’s internal requirements and external standards and regulations. The Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Federal (SDWAN-G) & Defense (SDWAN-D) Operations Team is responsible for building, deploying, and managing the entire SD-WAN Federal and Defense cloud infrastructure for US Federal Government Your Impact This role involves direct responsibility for the design, implementation, and management of Catalyst SD-WAN Security Operations. This role oversees and supports the complete product lifecycle of SDWAN-G, SDWAN-D, and commercial environments, including ordering, provisioning, onboarding, and operations. This role works with multiple clouds and collaborates with various teams, including engineering operations, to secure controllers and services for Catalyst SD-WAN. This role includes continuous assessment and improvement of security posture, implementation of effective security monitoring system, and collaboration on security control and reporting automation. In this role, you will be responsible for active security monitoring of both commercial and U.S. Federal and Defense environments, participating in the vulnerability management program, participating in and leading risk analysis of findings, and ensuring the SecOps team operates at maximum efficiency globally. You will be directly responsible for handling the operation of SDWAN-G and SDWAN-D customer environments, encompassing patching, upgrading, customer and on-call support; as well, the complete lifecycle of the federal / defense product including ordering, provisioning, on-boarding and operations. Minimum Qualifications 7+ years of experience in the cybersecurity; with at least 5 years in a cloud security role
5+ years of experience focusing on Risk, Security, and Privacy standards across various security control frameworks to include NIST and/or ISO
Experience in coding and automation skills with Python and Ansible. Preferred Qualifications Expertise with SD-WAN technology
Outstanding Emotional Intelligence and Communications skills
Clear expertise with the cloud platform services of AWS, Azure, etc.
Demonstrable understanding of authentication protocols, authorization standards and crypto primitives
Strong expertise with security and privacy operations, common industry best operating, developing, deployment, virtualization, IaC, and SD-WAN
Strong coding and automation skills with Python, Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins
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