Jobs at Cisco

Lead software security practices across the development lifecycle by building and tuning vulnerability detection tools, triaging findings, prioritizing risks, improving security processes, and partnering with development and security teams. The role includes automating security workflows, evaluating vulnerabilities and mitigations, tracking security metrics, and promoting best practices across product teams.

Lead software security lifecycle improvements by deploying and tuning vulnerability detection tools, triaging findings, prioritizing security risks, and standardizing security processes. Partner with development, release, and Cisco security teams to remediate vulnerabilities, measure security posture, and promote best practices. Automate security workflows using Go, Python, Bash, or Terraform, with opportunities to apply LLMs, fuzzing, DAST, Kubernetes, and cloud security expertise.

Lead the architecture and development of an AI-powered Production Intelligence platform combining SRE, observability, agentic AI, and automated remediation. Build AI agents, MCP integrations, telemetry pipelines, anomaly detection, evaluation frameworks, and safe human-in-the-loop workflows. Define reliability practices including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, incident response, and post-incident reviews. Mentor engineers, establish technical standards, and coordinate delivery across global application and infrastructure teams.

Three-year IT degree apprenticeship developing experience across Cisco’s internal IT teams. Responsibilities include supporting IT services, building and managing network and AI infrastructure solutions, automating processes, contributing to agile projects, collaborating globally, and using data to identify trends and support business decisions. Apprentices receive mentoring, team rotations, industry qualifications, and progressive responsibility while earning a degree.

Leads cross-functional programs and process launches that expand recurring revenue, improve renewals, reduce attrition, and optimize contracts. Develops migration and transformation plans, coordinates pilots and enablement, tracks adoption and customer outcomes, identifies automation opportunities, and supports field and partner readiness. Facilitates pipeline reviews and QBRs while advising stakeholders on scalable business models, CX technologies, and expansion strategies.

Leads cross-functional programs to scale recurring-revenue software and services offers, including pilots, migrations, renewals, expansion, contract optimization, and partner enablement. Coordinates program launches, process rollouts, adoption tracking, QBRs, pipeline reviews, and field readiness. Uses automation, analytics, and AI tools to identify opportunities, improve customer outcomes, reduce attrition, and support scalable business models across Cisco’s CX portfolio.

Partner with UK&I sales leaders to improve productivity through sales enablement programs. Facilitate training, coaching, onboarding, and leadership development; analyze sales indicators; contribute to sales process and product content; coordinate global and regional teams; manage stakeholder relationships; and introduce methodologies, third-party support, and technologies to drive repeatable results.

Lead design and development of Linux kernel functionality for BPF, networking, and security, integrating features into Cilium and Tetragon. Collaborate with engineering, product, customers, and the upstream Linux kernel community to shape technical direction, maintain code quality, and deliver scalable cloud-native solutions. The role may also involve presenting work at technical conferences and contributing to engineering best practices.

Lead the evolution and delivery of large-scale distributed systems for Cisco ThousandEyes. Partner with product and engineering leaders, develop integrations with Cisco wireless and security portfolios, apply AI to issue diagnosis and network remediation, mentor engineers, improve developer productivity, and help build and operate complex Internet-scale systems.

Designs and implements complex Cisco data centre and networking solutions for enterprise customers. Responsibilities include deploying Nexus, VXLAN, and ACI environments; integrating security and network service appliances; analyzing performance; resolving complex technical issues; automating deployments with AI and infrastructure-as-code practices; developing reusable delivery frameworks; and influencing product roadmaps. The role is customer-facing and requires deep networking expertise, consulting or service delivery experience, and professional-level certifications.

Provides senior-level enterprise network support for UK sovereign customers. Manages high-severity incidents, troubleshoots Cisco and multi-vendor environments, recreates issues in labs, coordinates with Cisco TAC, sanitizes sensitive customer data, and produces incident reports and root-cause analyses. Uses AI-assisted tools, LLMs, automation, and analytics to improve triage and log handling. Reviews security advisories, supports customer service reviews, drives continual service improvement, and mentors engineers.

Lead customer-facing technical engagements for Cisco’s UKI media and service provider business. Apply broadcast and media expertise to design IP-based architectures, conduct discovery workshops and proofs of concept, and advise on networking, cloud, automation, AI, and resilient live-production environments. Collaborate with account executives, Cisco engineering, partners, and standards organizations while developing long-term customer relationships and representing Cisco at major industry events.

Provides executive accountability for a $100M+ Cisco CX Services portfolio serving a strategic enterprise customer. Leads delivery governance, C-suite advisory, commercial and P&L oversight, AI-enabled program intelligence, network and infrastructure transformation, vendor orchestration, and large multidisciplinary teams. Oversees complex Cisco Nexus, ACI, Catalyst Center, Software-Defined Access, data center, and campus initiatives while ensuring contractual compliance, risk management, operational excellence, and revenue growth.

Conduct research on real-world BGP usage and Internet routing behavior using large-scale data, statistics, data science, and AI/ML techniques. Analyze routing dynamics and Internet topology, prototype algorithms and tools, collaborate with researchers, engineers, and product teams, and contribute to production systems, technical reports, and research publications.

Design, develop, test, and deliver features for Webex real-time media services. Participate in DevOps, microservices operations, and on-call rotations. Build automated tests, investigate issues, apply AI tools to workflows, and grow through mentorship and training.

Develop, test, and deliver features for Webex real-time media microservices. Participate in DevOps, manage highly available services, join on-call rotation, write automated tests, debug issues, and apply AI where relevant. Receive mentorship and training while contributing across Rust/Java/C++/Python codebases.

Design, operate, and scale highly available distributed systems for telemetry ingestion. Automate reliability, participate in on-call incident management, evaluate resilience and DR, collaborate with app teams, and use AI tooling to reduce toil.

Leads complex enterprise technology adoption and customer success programs for Cisco solutions. Creates and executes technical adoption plans, facilitates executive workshops and business reviews, supports onboarding, renewals, and expansion, and advises senior customer stakeholders. Uses AI analytics, telemetry, and networking and security expertise to identify adoption barriers, guide deployments, and improve customer outcomes. Collaborates across Sales, Customer Success, Partners, and Product teams, advocates for product improvements, scales global best practices, and mentors senior talent.

Develop cutting-edge networking software for Cisco’s IOS XR operating system, contributing across design, coding, testing, delivery, and support. Work may span low-level build and installation infrastructure through manageability and routing applications. The role is suited to highly capable graduates with strong academic records, enthusiasm for software development, collaborative skills, and a passion for building a long-term software engineering career. Comprehensive training is provided, and prior software experience is useful but not required.

Software engineering intern working with the Cisco Ensoft team on Cisco IOS-XR components for carrier and data-center routers. The role involves contributing to an 8–10 week project through software design, coding, testing, agile processes, and AI-enabled workflows. Applicants should be UK university undergraduates studying a numerate degree, have sufficient programming experience to become productive quickly, and enjoy collaborative work.