Director, Software Engineering (Security Service Edge| 15+ years| Bangalore)

Meet the Team

Cisco Security Business Group (SBG) is at the forefront of developing solutions for addressing the security challenges of our customers. With annual revenue exceeding $3B, it is one of the fastest growing businesses at Cisco. As Cisco is transforming its business model aggressively to a software and recurring revenue model, security business is leading this journey with 40%+ YoY growth in software recurring revenue.

The Cloud Security group within SBG focuses on developing cloud delivered security solutions (SaaS based) in a platform centric approach. This group values and cultivates innovation in an incredibly powerful and high growth domain. Our vision is to build the most complex security solutions in a cloud delivered way with utmost simplicity - disrupt industry's thinking around how deep and how broad a security solution can be while keeping it easy to deploy and simple to manage. We are at an exciting stage of this journey with 100% YoY growth, and looking for a highly motivated, innovative, and results oriented engineering leader for our Engineering group to help us scale our business.

Your Impact

• Successfully lead cultural, architectural, user experience, and software delivery transformations to achieve business goals.
• Partner closely with Product Management to help identify and drive revenue generation initiatives through outstanding customer outcomes.
• Identify and execute SSE and SASE innovations for differentiated customer experiences and outcomes.
• Define and carry out regular reviews of engineering metrics for predictable and repeatable delivery of value to customers.
• Create an effective, measurable sustainability initiative (e.g., NPS or equivalent programs) to lead customer retention and NRR goals.
• Lead an agile software engineering culture with sustained and frequent delivery of value to customers and instill a culture of frugal and innovative thinking, customer centricity.
• Recruit and nurture the strongest security talent in the industry.
  
  

Minimum Qualifications:

• Over 15 years of experience in leading product development teams, demonstrated expertise in architecting and building SaaS systems.
• Demonstrable understanding of the SASE and SSE space and at least 5 years of experience with building traffic acquisition, CASB, SWG, DLP, ZTNA, and cloud Firewall services.
• Expertise in driving change management programs in a truly Agile fashion.
• Experienced in carrying out large program software planning and estimation and experience in leading infrastructure cost optimization initiatives.
• Expertise in security with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly to business leadership and customers.
• Proven track record of growing talent and building high-performance engineering teams.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence and build strong relationships with employees, customers, and stakeholders.
  
  

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