Sr. Cybersecurity Engineer - Cisco Secure Network Analytics

Sr. Cybersecurity Engineer role based in Charlotte, NC with onsite expectations, focused on designing, testing, and improving enterprise security capabilities within the job area.

Responsibilities

• Designs and implements advanced cybersecurity solutions to protect critical assets, contributing to technical approaches for complex implementations while staying aligned to established strategies and patterns.
• Conducts and improves threat modeling, security testing, and penetration testing for high-risk platforms and in-scope services, using innovative techniques to find and remediate significant vulnerabilities.
• Integrates and configures information security technologies in production environments by defining and refining configuration patterns, automation, and domain handoff processes.
• Acts as a technical escalation point for complex security issues by diagnosing recurring problems and creating reusable solutions that improve team execution.
• Evaluates emerging security threats, tools, and architectural options and provides recommendations that influence technical plans, priorities, and goals for the job area.
• Partners with product and engineering teams to apply modern security architecture, secure-by-design practices, and governance controls across the local development lifecycle.
• Develops and maintains security baselines, guardrails, and control patterns for systems and applications, supporting regulatory and policy compliance approaches.
• Leads technical execution of major incident response and forensic activities within the job area, coordinating tasks, leveraging tooling effectively, and recommending improvements to playbooks and processes.
• Provides guidance, coaching, and technical training to other security engineers, including leading code and design reviews and sharing best practices.
• Leads large or complex security engineering initiatives by delegating work to lower level technical professionals, reviewing outputs, and ensuring delivery against agreed objectives.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education, training, and work-related experience.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in security engineering or related cybersecurity roles.
• Deep specialized knowledge of cybersecurity principles, theories, and concepts.
• Proven experience applying software development lifecycle security practices.
• Deep knowledge of threat modeling, security testing, and penetration testing.
• Experience implementing and managing complex information security technologies.

Security Engineer Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education, training, and work-related experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in security engineering or related cybersecurity roles.
• Advanced knowledge of cybersecurity principles, theories, and concepts.
• Proven experience in software development lifecycle security practices.
• Advanced knowledge of threat modeling, security testing, and penetration testing.
• Experience implementing and managing complex information security technologies.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree or MBA and 10 years of experience, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Banking or financial services experience.
• Other security certifications (examples: CCNA Security, GSEC, GCED, GPPA, etc.).
• Other technical certifications (examples: CCNA, RHCE, MCSE, etc.).
• Certification in Information Security Management (examples: CISSP, CRISC, CISM, or related security certification(s)).
• Expertise with security technologies such as Cisco Firepower FTD and ASA; cloud-native technologies such as AWS GuardDuty; network security policy management technologies.

Technologies

• Cisco Firepower FTD
• Cisco ASA
• AWS GuardDuty

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Life insurance
• Disability
• Accidental death and dismemberment
• Tax-preferred savings accounts
• 401k plan
• No less than 10 days of vacation (prorated based on date of hire and full-time or part-time status) during the first year
• 10 sick days (also prorated)
• Paid holidays
• Depending on position and division: defined benefit pension plan
• Depending on position and division: restricted stock units
• Depending on position and division: deferred compensation plan

Job Type

• Full-time