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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # AI Platform Engineering Lead, Security Core AI - Agentic SOC Platform (hybrid) - **Company:** Cisco Systems, Inc. - **Location:** San Jose, CA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $214,100.0 - $309,800.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Software Debugging, Distributed Systems, Intrusion Detection and Prevention, Software Maintenance, Security Information and Event Management, Software Engineering, AI Platforms, Splunk, Cisco - **Published:** August 24, 2026 - **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/2CDE1E2B54364E25BC45A37D86ECAE3A/job/ ## About the Role * Bachelors + 10 years experience, or Masters + 7 years experience, or PhD + 3 years experience; all experience to be related to role. * 4+ years of technical leadership or management experience in a software engineering or SOC environment * Experience delivering and maintaining software in public cloud (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and/or on-premises or air-gapped environment. * Experience delivering large-scale distributed systems, AI platforms, or data-intensive services, * Knowledge of AI and agentic-systems with the ability to guide technical decisions, quality expectations, risk management, and delivery. * Experience with SIEM, SOAR, threat detection, and/or incident response technologies and/or workflows * Experience executing through complex partner relationships and adopting shared technologies across large organizations; Cisco or Splunk or experience with similar SIEM technologies is valued. * Proven success scaling engineering practices, using AI-assisted development responsibly, mentoring technical leaders, and building high-performing teams. ## Description As the Software Engineering Manager of the Security Core AI team, you'll lead a sizable engineering team creating trusted AI capabilities that help security organizations detect, investigate, and respond to threats. You will combine software engineering judgment, people leadership, and cross-functional execution to deliver capabilities across cloud, on-premises, sovereign cloud, and air-gapped environments in partnership with teams across Cisco and Splunk. * Lead, coach, and develop a sizable team of software engineers, establishing clear expectations, accountability, and career growth. * Translate Security Core AI strategy into practical roadmaps, staffing plans, priorities, and release-aligned execution. * Lead delivery of shared AI capabilities for the Agentic SOC from requirements and architecture through integration, adoption, and improvement. * Partner with security-domain teams to translate SOC, SIEM, detection, incident, investigation, and response needs into scalable engineering outcomes. * Coordinate with product, architecture, deployment, quality, release, operations, support, and engineering partners to land capabilities end to end. * Build strong relationships with Cisco and Splunk AI platform teams; evaluate shared technologies, drive adoption, and represent Security requirements. * Balance near-term product commitments with convergence toward common platform, orchestration, and evaluation approaches. * Guide delivery across cloud, on-premises, sovereign cloud, and air-gapped environments addressing residency, connectivity, deployment, upgrade, and resource constraints. * Establish goals and metrics for delivery, AI quality, reliability, security, adoption, cost, and customer impact. * Promote responsible use of AI tools throughout requirements, design, coding, review, testing, documentation, debugging, release, and production improvement. * Hire, onboard, retain, and manage performance while building an inclusive, accountable, and continuously improving engineering culture. * Coach technical leaders and senior engineers, delegate meaningful ownership, and build succession and growth paths. * Resolve dependencies and priority conflicts, communicate trade-offs, and maintain stakeholder alignment as requirements and schedules change. * Represent the team in planning, architecture, customer, and executive discussions. ## Related Videos - [AI-Augmented DevOps with Platform Engineering](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1614-ai-augmented-devops-with-platform-engineering) - [How Cisco embraced a DevOps culture within its network engineering team](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/99-how-cisco-embraced-a-devops-culture-within-its-network-engineering-team) - [Our journey with Spring Boot in a microservice architecture](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/511-our-journey-with-spring-boot-in-a-microservice-architecture) - [This App Reached 10,000 Users in One Week. 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