Engineering Project Manager
Application window expected to close on 08/23/2026; posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or sufficient applications are received.
About the Team
Splunk Global Security (SGS), led by Splunk's Chief Information Security Officer, exists to defend Splunk, Cisco, and our customers. The Strategy, Planning, and Operations team helps SGS turn security priorities into executable programs, measurable outcomes, and repeatable operating practices. We work closely with security engineering, security operations, product security, GRC, identity and access management, infrastructure, product management, and customer trust teams across a global organization. This is a practical, high-context team that values technical clarity, calm execution, and strong partnership in work that directly improves customer trust and security resilience.
Responsibilities
- Lead technically complex cybersecurity programs across the CISO organization and with partners across Engineering, Product, IT, Compliance, Customer Trust, Legal, Procurement, and go-to-market teams.
- Drive programs spanning security engineering, product and platform security, cloud and infrastructure security, identity and access management, vulnerability remediation, secure software development, AI-enabled engineering or security workflows, compliance readiness, customer assurance, and security service delivery.
- Develop understanding of architectures, data flows, control design, telemetry, and engineering dependencies to identify gaps, unblock decisions, and connect technical work to risk reduction and customer impact.
- Use metrics, dashboards, audit evidence, and stakeholder forums to surface material risks early and keep globally distributed teams accountable.
- Help launch security capabilities with runbooks, support handoffs, customer assurance inputs, and awareness or GTM coordination so new capabilities land cleanly and can be operated at scale.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience in technical program management, security program management, security engineering operations, or a related technical delivery role, including 2+ years driving cybersecurity, cloud, infrastructure, enterprise software, compliance, audit readiness, or risk-reduction programs.
- 2+ years working with security domains including secure SDLC, vulnerability management, security operations, identity and access management, cloud security, product or platform security, third-party risk, security controls and frameworks such as NIST, ISO, PCI, SOC 2, or FedRAMP.
- 1+ year working with architecture, data flows, control design, cloud or infrastructure dependencies, and solution tradeoffs to identify risks, ask precise technical questions, and communicate clearly with engineering teams.
- 2+ years driving cross-functional technical execution across product, engineering, security, compliance, and business stakeholders, including ownership of program metrics, dashboards, executive updates, and decision records.
- 1+ years of experience using AI-enabled tools to improve analysis, documentation, reporting, or workflow automation, with awareness of risks such as data leakage, prompt injection, third-party tooling, confidentiality, human review, and audibility.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting programs in a CISO organization, security operations center, product security team, GRC function, cloud security team, or enterprise technology organization.
- Experience participating in architecture reviews, threat modeling, control implementation, detection engineering, incident readiness, large-scale remediation, or customer assurance efforts.
- Experience managing security integrations with mergers and acquisitions.
- Experience supporting security review, control implementation, or rollout of AI-enabled products, copilots, agents, AI-assisted engineering workflows, or internal automation.
- Familiarity with Splunk products such as Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Cloud Platform, Enterprise Security, SOAR, or Observability Cloud.
- Cybersecurity, cloud, or program management certification such as Security+, CISSP, CISM, PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM, AWS, Azure, or GCP certification.
About Cisco
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. 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.
Pay
The starting salary range for this position is $115,800.00 to $163,200.00 for new hires in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation, equity, or benefits. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training.
Full salary ranges for specific locations:
- New York City Metro Area: $138,100.00 - $226,000.00
- Non-Metro New York State & Washington State: $124,000.00 - $201,000.00
For quota-based sales roles, the ranges include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) plan with Cisco matching contribution
- Paid parental leave
- Short and long-term disability coverage
- Basic life insurance
- Cisco restricted stock units (RSUs), which vest following continued employment
- Paid time off:
- 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
- 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday
- Paid year-end holiday shutdown
- 4 paid days off for personal wellness
- Non-exempt employees: 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at 4.92 hours per pay period
- Exempt employees: Flexible vacation time off with no defined limit (subject to availability and business limitations)
- 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, with up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward
- Additional paid time away for critical or emergency family issues
- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
- Annual bonuses for non-sales roles, subject to Cisco’s policies
- For sales roles: Performance-based incentive pay split between quota and non-quota components