Director SW development

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 platfrom with an AI-first user experience across our products. You will lead integrations of Cisco prodcuts into the platfrom 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.

Key Responsibilities

• 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.
• Strong background in enterprise software platform development.
• Hands-on technical expertise in architecture, code, quality, and operational excellence.
• Demonstrated ability to hire, mentor, and develop engineering talent.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and leadership skills.
• 12+ years' experience as a Backend Engineer with expertise in integrating complex services.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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.

Why Cisco
#WeAreCisco

WeAreCisco where every individual brings their unique skills and perspectives together to pursue our purpose of powering an inclusive future for all

Our passion is connection—we celebrate our employees' diverse set of backgrounds and focus on unlocking potential. Cisconians often experience one company, many careers where learning and development are encouraged and supported at every stage. Our technology, tools, and culture pioneered hybrid work trends, allowing all to not only give their best, but be their best.

We understand our outstanding opportunity to bring communities together and at the heart of that is our people. One-third of Cisconians collaborate in our 30 employee resource organizations, called Inclusive Communities, to connect, foster belonging, learn to be informed allies, and make a difference. Dedicated paid time off to volunteer—80 hours each year—allows us to give back to causes we are passionate about, and nearly 86% do

Our purpose, driven by our people, is what makes us the worldwide leader in technology that powers the internet. Helping our customers reimagine their applications, secure their enterprise, transform their infrastructure, and meet their sustainability goals is what we do best. We ensure that every step we take is a step towards a more inclusive future for all. Take your next step and be you, with us

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