Director, Software Engineering - Cisco Cloud Control

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Meet the Team

The Cisco AI Software & Platform Group is at the forefront of delivering Generative AI solutions to transform Cisco's products and customer interactions. We're introducing new AI-powered offerings that help customers scale responsibly, while our internal platforms unlock AI's potential for teams and partners across our Security, Enterprise Networking, Collaboration, and Splunk portfolios. We are seeking a senior engineering leader for the newly established Cisco Cloud Control Platform Engineering team. Cisco Cloud Control is an innovative, AI-native management platform for Cisco's portfolio, trusted by thousands of global customers, including Fortune 100 companies.

Your Impact

As Director of Engineering, you'll drive part of the execution of our unified management platform with an AI-first user experience across our products. You will lead integrations of Cisco products into the platform and ensuring our solutions deliver maximum value and usability. Your leadership and expertise will inspire innovation, foster a culture of excellence, and tackle complex technical challenges.

• Lead, hire, mentor, and grow a high-performing cloud engineering team in a collaborative environment.
• Champion the use of AI tools and capabilities throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Oversee end-to-end development, continuous delivery, infrastructure automation, and quality initiatives.
• Align engineering efforts with business goals to maximize customer value.
• Foster innovation through creative problem-solving and adoption of new technologies.
• Direct and coordinate all activities for effective project delivery.
• Remain hands-on with architecture, solution design, and development, leveraging deep enterprise software expertise.
• Resolve cross-functional priorities and organizational challenges to achieve measurable customer outcomes.
• Support operational excellence, ensuring cloud service SLAs are met and incidents are resolved promptly.
• Track project status, balance high-quality delivery with tight deadlines, and encourage long-term innovation.

Minimum Qualifications

• Proven experience leading and scaling cloud-based engineering teams in fast-paced environments.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a relevant technical field.
• 15+ years of experience in software engineering, data architecture, or data engineering, with a strong record of designing and delivering large-scale systems, enterprise software platform development.
• 5+ years of experience in technical leadership roles managing and scaling engineering teams.
• Demonstrated expertise with cloud-based architectures (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, Kafka, Airflow) or similar technologies.
• Hands-on technical expertise in architecture, code, quality, and operational excellence.
• Demonstrated ability to hire, mentor, and develop engineering talent.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree preferred.
• Experience with SaaS, Kubernetes, Docker, Go, Python, Terraform, and AWS services (e.g., DynamoDB, Lambda, EKS).
• Knowledge of networking (Campus and branch) and security technologies (SASE, SSE, web security, branch and remote connectivity).
• Experience with LLMs and AI tools for development, testing, and CI/CD.
• Proven ability to build and nurture leadership talent through mentoring and cross-functional collaboration.

At Cisco, we're revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era - and beyond. We've been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint. Simply put - we power the future.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you'll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.