Splunk
Security Engineering Technical Leader
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$149k-$219kDetected 76 days ago
PythonGoCode ReviewAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsTerraformLLMsCybersecurityCiscoCommunicationCollaborationCISSP
About the role
- The application window is expected to close on: 04/20/2026 Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.
- The role also focuses on leveraging automation and AI to improve risk identification, security architecture reviews, and compliance validation.
- Ensuring new systems, integrations, and services comply with organizational security standards through automated validation, policy-as-code, and continuous monitoring.
Responsibilities
- The Security Engineering Technical Lead plays a critical role in designing and implementing scalable automation and AI-driven solutions to strengthen security controls across the organization's application and platform ecosystem.
- This position collaborates closely with multiple teams to integrate security policies into development workflows, ensuring secure software delivery without compromising speed.
- include: Designing and implementing scalable automation and AI-driven tools to enhance security controls, architecture reviews, risk identification, and decision support.
- Partnering with Application Security, Cloud Engineering, Platform teams, and enterprise architects to develop automated security guardrails and integrate security policies into development workflows.
- Building reusable security frameworks, intake processes, and automated validation mechanisms to reduce manual review effort while improving consistency, visibility, and compliance.
- Collaborating with software development teams to create innovative, automated security solutions that demonstrate measurable business efficiency gains, leveraging AI to address security gaps.
- Quickly adapting to new security challenges, especially related to IaaS platforms, and engaging with lead architects and technical leads through design reviews, pair programming, code reviews, and sharing AI expertise.
- Documenting solutions clearly to support team training and production support personnel.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in cybersecurity, security engineering, DevSecOps, or application security.
- 3+ years of experience in security automation or software engineering, including scripting or development in languages such as Python, Go, or Java.
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and understanding of cloud security architectures.
Nice to have
- Strong collaboration and communication skills with the ability to work across engineering, architecture, and security teams.
- We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale.
- Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.
- For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota
- 1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%
- 1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%
- and Once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.
- For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target.
Skills
- 2011049 - Security
- Engineer Technical Leader (Remote) The application window is expected to close on:
- include:
- Performing and scaling risk assessments and security architecture reviews for applications, cloud platforms, APIs, and system integrations.
Compensation
- Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan.
- The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:
Benefits
- Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks.
- Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.
- Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training.
Company info
- $163,600.00 - $269,800.00 * For quota-based sales roles on Cisco's sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined. ** Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.
- We make impact as a team, innovating fast and fearlessly to create meaningful solutions on a large scale.
- The depth and breadth of our technology doesn't just benefit our customers - it also means limitless opportunities for us to experiment and learn.
- We understand the power each of our unique backgrounds bring when we work together.
- Because of that, we have a global network of thinkers, doers, experts, and curious creators who help one another do their life's best work.
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