Job description

What You'll Do

As a team member of Cisco's Advanced Security Initiatives Group, you will evaluate our products and services to identify security vulnerabilities, weaknesses, and improvements that result in more resilient and hardened offers used by our global customers. You will learn to adopt an attacker mindset using tools, techniques, and processes that emulate those used by sophisticated and motivated adversaries.

You will work with amazingly creative, innovative, and collaborative security researchers to continuously develop new and constantly evolving ethical hacker skills and expansive networking product knowledge. You will partner with Cisco's industry leading engineering teams to review the latest complex and industry leading system and application architectures, contribute to creative security solutions, and gain unparalleled access to and experience with the latest technologies.

You will also have opportunities to work on independent and/or team research of advanced topics to explore and develop your own new and novel tools and ideas as part of our "Free Friday” innovation incubation process.

Who You'll Work With

Our security team is dynamic, hardworking, fun, and high-energy, but the work is done in a very casual environment that strongly encourages a good work/life balance. Not only will you will be working alongside a team of expert security researchers with a diverse spectrum of skills and experience levels, you will also be interacting with a variety of engineering teams across Cisco. Cisco ASIG cultivates an environment where every individual's input and experience is valued. Our team prioritizes training sessions and a mentor program to surround you with experts and resources to help get you up to speed.

Who You Are

Would you enjoy finding security flaws in mission-critical systems, modeling prototype attacks that malicious users might take advantage of, and designing mitigations to thwart motivated and inventive adversaries? If you have a passion for computer security, enjoy solving difficult problems, and relish working with emerging technologies, Cisco wants you! Global ISPs, Fortune 500 companies, and world governments all depend on Cisco for critical infrastructure, and we want the best and brightest ensuring that we keep delivering rock-solid secure solutions to meet their needs.

Desired Experience

• 2+ years of software engineering experience with C, C++, or Python/Ruby, or a commonly used programming language, with experience in secure coding/development and code analysis for vulnerabilities. Recent academic experience may qualify.

Skilled in two or more of following areas:

• Strong understanding of operating system concepts in the areas of memory management, computer architecture, or binary analysis
• 2+ years of hands on Unix experience with a solid understanding of security hardening configurations and capabilities
• 2+ years of experience with applied crypto, through implementation or analysis of crypto algorithms
• 2+ years of experience with network protocols, through implementation or analysis
• 2+ years of experience as a DevOps engineer, with a focus on DevOps security
• 2+ years of security testing experience, including areas like web applications, APIs, user interfaces, and embedded devices

OSCP or related industry certifications are a plus.

Other Desired Skills (and/or skills you'll have a chance to develop)

• Applied architectural security
• Cryptographic algorithm design and review
• Operating system fundamentals and secure configuration
• Security of virtualization platforms and techniques
• Network protocol analysis and debugging
• Web protocols and API security
• Secure development practices
• Software vulnerability assessment, fuzzing, and code analysis
• Reverse engineering
• Exploit development

Job Requirements:

Relocation to Knoxville, Tennessee; Austin, Texas; or Research Triangle Park, North Carolina

US Citizenship is required due to the nature of the work this position will perform and the government customers with which the role will work.

Why Cisco

At Cisco, each person brings their rare talents to work as a team and make a difference.

Yes, our technology changes the way the world works, lives, plays and learns, but our edge

comes from our people.

• We connect everything – people, process, data and things – and we use those connections to change our world for the better.

- We innovate everywhere - From launching a new era of networking that adapts, learns and protects, to building Cisco Services that accelerate businesses and business results. Our technology powers entertainment, retail, healthcare, education and more – from Smart Cities to your everyday devices.

- We benefit everyone - We do all of this while striving for a culture that empowers every person to be the difference, at work and in our communities.

Colorful hair? Don't care. Tattoos? Show off your ink. Like polka dots? That's cool. Pop culture geek? Many of us are. Be you, with us! #WeAreCisco

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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