Technical Project Manager

Meet the TeamSplunk Global Security (SGS) is led by Splunk's Chief Information Security Officer and exists to defend Splunk, Cisco, and our customers. The Strategy, Planning, and Operations team helps SGS turn security priorities into executable programs, measurable outcomes, and repeatable operating practices. We work closely with security engineering, security operations, product security, GRC, identity and access management, infrastructure, product management, and customer trust teams across a global organization. This is a practical, high-context team that values technical clarity, calm execution, and strong partnership in work that directly improves customer trust and security resilience.

Your ImpactAs a Technical Project 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, supporthandoffs, customer assurance inputs, and awareness or GTM coordination so new capabilities land cleanly and can be operated at scale.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business Administration, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
  
• 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+ year 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+ years 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.
  Preferred Qualifications
  
• 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.

Why Cisco?

At Cisco, we're revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era - and beyond. We've been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you'll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everyw, our impact is everyw.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.

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Canada:

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• , equity, or benefits.

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