Director, Software Engineering (Security Service Edge| 15+ years| Bangalore)
Cisco
Meet the Team
Cisco Security Business Group (SBG) is at the forefront of developing solutions for addressing the security challenges of our customers. With annual revenue exceeding $3B, it is one of the fastest growing businesses at Cisco. As Cisco is transforming its business model aggressively to a software and recurring revenue model, security business is leading this journey with 40%+ YoY growth in software recurring revenue.
The Cloud Security group within SBG focuses on developing cloud delivered security solutions (SaaS based) in a platform centric approach. This group values and cultivates innovation in an incredibly powerful and high growth domain. Our vision is to build the most complex security solutions in a cloud delivered way with utmost simplicity - disrupt industry's thinking around how deep and how broad a security solution can be while keeping it easy to deploy and simple to manage. We are at an exciting stage of this journey with 100% YoY growth, and looking for a highly motivated, innovative, and results oriented engineering leader for our Engineering group to help us scale our business.
Your Impact
- Successfully lead cultural, architectural, user experience, and software delivery transformations to achieve business goals.
- Partner closely with Product Management to help identify and drive revenue generation initiatives through outstanding customer outcomes.
- Identify and execute SSE and SASE innovations for differentiated customer experiences and outcomes.
- Define and carry out regular reviews of engineering metrics for predictable and repeatable delivery of value to customers.
- Create an effective, measurable sustainability initiative (e.g., NPS or equivalent programs) to lead customer retention and NRR goals.
- Lead an agile software engineering culture with sustained and frequent delivery of value to customers and instill a culture of frugal and innovative thinking, customer centricity.
- Recruit and nurture the strongest security talent in the industry.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Over 15 years of experience in leading product development teams, demonstrated expertise in architecting and building SaaS systems.
- Demonstrable understanding of the SASE and SSE space and at least 5 years of experience with building traffic acquisition, CASB, SWG, DLP, ZTNA, and cloud Firewall services.
- Expertise in driving change management programs in a truly Agile fashion.
- Experienced in carrying out large program software planning and estimation and experience in leading infrastructure cost optimization initiatives.
- Expertise in security with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly to business leadership and customers.
- Proven track record of growing talent and building high-performance engineering teams.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence and build strong relationships with employees, customers, and stakeholders.
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When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.
U.S. employees have access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings.
Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday (for non-exempt employees), plus a day off for their birthday. Non-Exempt new hires accrue up to 16 days of vacation time off each year, at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period. Exempt new hires participate in Cisco’s flexible Vacation Time Off policy, which does not place a defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use, but is subject to availability and some business limitations. All new hires are eligible for Sick Time Off subject to Cisco’s Sick Time Off Policy and will have eighty (80) hours of sick time off provided on their hire date and on January 1st of each year thereafter. Up to 80 hours of unused sick time will be carried forward from one calendar year to the next such that the maximum number of sick time hours an employee may have available is 160 hours. Employees in Illinois have a unique time off program designed specifically with local requirements in mind. All employees also have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community.
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.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.
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