Senior Linux Security Engineer

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🌲 North Carolina, Texas, +1 more states – Remote

🌲 North Carolina – Remote 🤠 Texas – Remote ⚔️ Virginia – Remote

💵 $118.7k - $160.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

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Cisco

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1984

🔧 Hardware

🔐 Security

🏢 Enterprise

Hardware • Security • Enterprise

Cisco is a multinational technology company that provides networking hardware, software, and services to enterprises, service providers, and governments. It builds routers, switches, optical transceivers, programmable silicon, and edge computing platforms, and offers security, collaboration (Webex), observability, and AI-enabled software and support services to help organizations design, operate, and secure large-scale networks and data centers. Cisco also delivers professional services, training, and cloud-managed solutions to support digital transformation and AI-ready infrastructure.

📋 Description

• Responsible for security engineering and operations supporting Cisco IT compute and AI infrastructure • Actively participating in the Security cross-functional team of Prime Security Advocates • Collaborates with Security and Trust teams to identify improvement areas and develop engineering solutions • Validates security posture for AI infrastructure including patching, vulnerability scanning, software development, and open-source software management • Serves as a key point of contact for security issues, incident response, vulnerability management, and implementation of security solutions • Contributes to modernizing Linux Operating System build systems through advanced automation • Acts as a technical resource for embedding security practices into all aspects of Cisco IT engineering • Participates in defining strategy and maintaining the roadmap for adoption, expansion, and integration of security monitoring platforms

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years of experience with Linux security (Sudoers, SELinux, and other hardening principles) • 6+ years of experience in large-scale IT infrastructure, including compute, network, or storage systems • Experience Linux Operating System image / ISO development, hardening, and deployment through CI/CD pipelines • Experience with security scanning tools and agents covering SAST, DAST, SCA, and secrets detection • Experience working with DevOps Infrastructure-as-Code (IaaS) tooling including Ansible, GitHub, Python, Docker/Podman

🏖️ Benefits

• medical, dental and vision insurance • 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution • paid parental leave • short and long-term disability coverage • basic life insurance • 10 paid holidays per full calendar year • 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees • 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday • paid year-end holiday shutdown • 4 paid days off for personal wellness • 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year for non-exempt employees • flexible vacation time off program for exempt employees • 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter • up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next • Additional paid time away may be requested for family member emergency issues • Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer • annual bonuses for non-sales roles • performance-based incentive pay for sales roles