Technical Leader - Platform Engineering--Cisco Security Innovation

Who We Are

As part of Cisco 's Security Business Group, the Security Innovation team incubates ideas for the leading provider of network security services, which enables the world to connect with confidence on any device, anywhere, anytime. Our product portfolio includes the cloud delivered firewall, Web proxy, Zero Trust Proxy, NaaS integrations, and inspection services as highly available distributed systems using cloud engineering practices. We are now engineering a highly available distributed security fabric that brings it all together, Cisco Hypershield. We are highly passionate about the interconnected SASE world, and this is part of our continued to commitment to offer customer-focused security products at the edge of technology.

Cisco Hypershield protects applications, devices and data across public and private data centers, clouds and physical locations - anywhere customers need it. Designed and built with AI in mind from the start, Hypershield enables organizations to achieve security outcomes beyond what has been possible with humans alone.

The Hypershield DevOps team architects, maintains, and continually improves platform services and related product features for Cisco Hypershield. Our work is collaborative, impactful, and highly visible. We manage the core workflows, tools and services that turn rapid innovation into sustained customer value. Close collaboration with engineering teams enables us to secure continuous deployment and delivery of software via self-service workflows and automation. This includes packaging, signing, and distribution of software to customer-facing download portals and marketplaces, as well as to customer systems directly by way of Hypershield's novel dual-dataplane technology.

Who You Are

We seek an innovative Platform Engineer with prior experience in building foundational infrastructure for security solutions. Our ideal candidate will be comfortable contributing to design discussions with other architects, developers, and product managers alike. This person will be a hands-on technologist who isn't afraid to be creative, someone who knows what works and what doesn't, who can champion the tools, technologies, and architecture needed to deliver groundbreaking new products to our customers.Typical responsibilities include:

• Create developer workflows and automation to build, package, distribute, and install Hypershield software on both virtual and hardware platforms
• Maintain C toolchain for x86 and arm64 targets, including dependencies such as glibc, DPDK, VPP, and vendor SDKs
• End-to-end packaging for Hypershield software components: creating package artifacts, including update and install scripts, hosting package distribution repositories, installing packages to create virtual machine and container images and publishing packages and images for customer consumption
• Present designs and solutions to multiple teams across organizations, gathering feedback that will help us drive consensus and gain alignment

We work in an agile, "startup-style" environment with minimal bureaucracy. You will be part of a small team driving the next evolution of security at Cisco.

Minimum Experience for this Role:

• BA/BS Degree in Computer Science or related field
• 7+ years of professional experience working in Platform Engineering, Build / Release, or DevOps roles
• Experience with software toolchains, multi-arch build and runtime environments
• Experience creating and distributing enterprise software packages
• Automation experience

Preferred Skills & Experience:

• Tools like Make, CMake, or similar to compile C projects for x86 and arm64 targets
• C networking frameworks such as VPP, DPDK, and/or proprietary SDKs
• Software packaging for Linux environments, including end-to-end ownership of package creation and distribution for Debian and/or RPM
• Artifacts creation and automation for virtualization providers such as VMware, Openshift, AWS and Azure, container runtime technologies such as Kubernetes / KubeVirt, Docker, Podman; creating virtual machine images with Packer
• Code repositories, static analysis tools and CI/CD pipelines; git, Coverity, GitHub Actions
• Prior work on a remote or distributed team

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