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Applications are accepted until further notice.  

Meet the team 

Join Cisco’s team, where we protect Cisco’s global digital ecosystem across more than 200,000 connected assets. Our mission is to discover, map, and assess internet-facing infrastructure to identify security opportunities and keep our systems resilient. We are a collaborative, inclusive team of security experts dedicated to continuous learning, knowledge sharing, and supportive career growth. What makes our team exciting is the global impact of our work, our open culture, and our use of modern AI-assisted tools to solve meaningful security challenges. 

Your impact 

As an Attack Surface Management Security Engineer II, you will help protect Cisco’s global infrastructure by identifying public assets and guiding vulnerability resolutions. In this role, you will perform advanced asset discovery and vulnerability assessments to maintain visibility across connected enterprise and cloud environments. You will partner with system owners across Cisco to prioritize security findings and ensure timely remediation. You will also build automated scripts and integrations to streamline data collection and improve team reporting. Throughout your work, you will collaborate with experienced security engineers to develop new detection capabilities and elevate team best practices. 

Minimum qualifications 

• Education & Experience Pathway: Meet one of the following (completed within the past 3 years or expected to be completed within the next 12 months): 

• • A Master's degree with 0 years of work experience; or 

• • A Bachelor's degree with 2 years of work experience; or 

• • An educational or workforce development program (e.g., Associate’s, Apprenticeship, Boot camp, or Certification) with 3 years of work experience; or 

• • A High school diploma (or equivalent) with 4 years of work experience. 

• Qualifying Discipline: Qualifying education and work experience in Cybersecurity, Information Security, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field. 

• Vulnerability Scanning & Exposure Operations: Experience performing routine vulnerability scanning, discovery pipelines, exposure assessments, and validation evidence across hybrid environments following established runbooks. 

• Risk Triage & Remediation Coordination: Demonstrated ability to review and prioritize security findings by severity and exposure context (leveraging automated or AI-assisted tools), track remediation workflows, and collaborate with asset owners to resolve vulnerabilities. 

• Automation, Tooling & Reporting: Practical experience with security workflow scripting, ticketing platforms (such as Jira or ServiceNow), maintaining operational monitoring dashboards, and preparing metric reports for team reviews. 

Preferred qualifications 

• Industry-recognized security certifications (such as CompTIA Security+, CySA+, CEH, GIAC certifications, or Cisco Certified Network Associate). 

• Familiarity with cloud security configurations and exposure management across major cloud platforms (such as Amazon Cloud, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform). 

• Experience reviewing network telemetry, DNS records, TLS certificates, and HTTP headers to evaluate external exposures. 

• Practical experience building automated data integrations or dashboards (such as Splunk, Tableau, Power BI, or Grafana) to visualize security data. 

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills with an enthusiasm for collaborating across diverse engineering teams. 

Why Cisco? 

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. 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. 

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you. 

Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:

Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. 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.

U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies:

• 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees

• 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco

• Non-exempt employees** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees

• Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)

• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next

• Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members

• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.

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. 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. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:

New York City Metro Area:

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

* 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.