Your Impact
As a Technical Program Manager focused on Vulnerability Management, you will play a critical role in strengthening the organization’s security posture while driving operational excellence across complex, large-scale programs. You’ll lead end-to-end vulnerability management efforts—from detection to remediation—while partnering with engineering, security, and product teams across Cisco to ensure risks are addressed efficiently and at scale. This role is exciting because it sits at the intersection of security, automation, and cross‑functional leadership, giving you the opportunity to influence both technical strategy and organizational resilience.
* Lead and manage complex, cross‑functional programs aligned with organizational and security priorities.
* Own and evolve the Organization wide Vulnerability Management Program (VMP) across Cross functional teams driving both strategic direction and execution.
* Develop and optimize automated workflows and tools to streamline the vulnerability lifecycle, including detection, triage, assignment, and reporting.
* Drive measurable improvements in vulnerability remediation of SLAs, MTTR, and program adoption across engineering teams.
* Partner with engineering, security, SRE/Ops, and product teams to prioritize remediation efforts and ensure successful, secure releases.
* Enhance visibility through dashboards, reporting, and post‑mortems while driving continuous improvement initiatives across processes and tooling.
Minimum Qualifications
* 5+ years of experience in Technical Program Management, Engineering Program Management, or a similar role in a cloud/SaaS environment.
* Hands‑on experience managing Vulnerability Management Programs, including tracking and driving remediation across distributed systems.
* Experience with security and compliance frameworks such as FedRAMP, NIST, ISO 27001, or SOC 2
* Demonstrated experience building and scaling automated vulnerability management workflows in fast paced complex cloud environments, spanning intake, triage, prioritization, remediation tracking, and reporting.
Preferred Qualifications
* Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
* Experience supporting security audits or compliance initiatives in regulated environments
* Familiarity with security tooling such as vulnerability scanners, ticketing systems, CI/CD pipelines, and asset inventory platforms.
* Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret vulnerability data and drive data‑informed decisions.
* Experience working with Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban) in fast‑paced environments.
* Ability to influence cross‑functional stakeholders and drive alignment across engineering, security, and product teams.
Cisco is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis.
Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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