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US Person on US Soil
Meet the Team
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.
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.
Your Impact
This role involves overseeing the complete product lifecycle of SDWAN-G and SDWAN-D, including ordering, provisioning, onboarding, and operations
This role involves work with multiple clouds and collaboration 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 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.
In this role, you will be directly responsible for operation of federal & defense customer environments including patching, upgrading, customer and on-call support, as well as the complete lifecycle of the federal / defense product including ordering, provisioning, on-boarding and operations.
In this role, you will be directly responsible for managing the operation of SDWAN-G and SDWAN-D customer environments, encompassing patching, upgrading, customer and on-call support.
Minimum Qualifications
- Must be a U.S. Person, U.S. Soil.
- 7+ years of experience in the cybersecurity; with at least 5 years in a cloud security role
- 5+ years of experience working in federal and defense authorization processes, including the NIST Risk, Security, and Privacy
Preferred Qualifications
- Clear expertise with the cloud platform services of AWS
- Strong knowledge of authentication protocols, authorization standards and crypto primitives
- Have, or be able to achieve, Top-Secret Clearance
- 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
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