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# Security Operations Engineer

- **Company:** Cisco Systems, Inc.
- **Location:** Austin, TX, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $128,600.0 - $184,900.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Kubernetes Security, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, JIRA, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing Security, Cloud Engineering, Cyber Security, Information Systems, Linux, Github, Intrusion Detection and Prevention, Python (Programming Language), Security Information and Event Management, Software Vulnerability Management, Google Cloud, Large Language Models, Mitre Att&ck, Technical Debt, Kubernetes, Cybercrime, Restful APIs, Splunk, Security Orchestration, Automation & Response
- **Published:** October 14, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.austinjobsite.com/job.asp?id=3445732106&tx=DT110UYI&pt=1&aff=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54&utm_source=Job%20Feed&utm_medium=textkernel&utm_campaign=DE&utm_term=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54

## About the Role

* 4+ years of hands-on experience in a dedicated Security Operations Center (SOC), Cloud Security, or Incident Response role within a modern enterprise environment.
 * Experience with cloud architecture like AWS, Azure and GCP
 * Experience with vulnerability lifecycle management, operating and tuning vulnerability management pipelines, understanding CVSS/EPSS scoring, and driving remediation across complex microservice environments.
 * Experience in incident response managing high-pressure security incident response workflows following NIST SP 800-61 / ISO standards.
 * Experience with log & telemetry analysis, querying, correlating, and interpreting security logs within enterprise SIEM platforms (Splunk) and Linux system logs.
 * Experience authoring postmortems and SOPs, showcasing effective written and verbal communication skills
 * Experience leveraging AI/LLMs for alert enrichment, ticket classification, or routine operational automation., * Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
 * Experience with Python automation and scripting
 * Experience with Physical Data Center Security
 * Experience consuming REST APIs (Jira, GitHub, cloud APIs) to automate security workflows.
 * Familiarity with Kubernetes, and container security scanners (Wiz, or Falco).
 * Industry-recognized credentials such as CISSP, AWS Certified Security - Specialty, GIAC (GCIH/GCFA/GCDA), or Splunk Core Certified Power User/Admin.
 * Experience and availability to participate in a distributed team on-call rotation.

## Description

* Manage, triage, and validate container, host, and cloud infrastructure findings across enterprise scanners.
 * Drive vulnerability prioritization, validate false positives, and enforce remediation SLAs across product engineering queues.
 * Incident Command & Response:
 * Serve as an Incident Commander (IC) during critical-severity SBG security incidents.
 * Lead cross-functional triage calls, direct containment and eradication strategies, coordinate forensics, and facilitate postmortem retrospectives.
 * Detection Engineering, Threat Hunting & Intelligence:
 * Analyze multi-source telemetry in enterprise SIEMs and endpoint auditing tools to detect adversary tactics mapped to MITRE ATT&CK framework.
 * Formulate and execute hypothesis-driven threat hunts, converting hunt findings into permanent automated detections and alerting rules.
 * Audit, Compliance & Security Assurance:
 * Partner with governance teams to collect, validate, and orchestrate technical control evidence for compliance audits.
 * Operational Excellence & Security Automation:
 * Eliminate operational bottlenecks and technical debt by engineering automated workflows, runbooks, and scripts (Python).
 * Leverage AI/LLM tooling and REST APIs to accelerate triage workflows, enhance threat analysis.