Senior Director, Engineering - Quality (Security Business Group)

Cisco
San Jose
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 293,900 - 406,800 annuallyFunction: Quality & Regulatory (Non-Software)Experience: 15+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Leadership","Building quality frameworks","Accountability","Continuous improvement","Cross-functional collaboration"]

Lead a strategic, hands-on quality engineering organization for Cisco Security’s Cloud and Network Security portfolio. Define enterprise quality strategy and a common framework across development, testing, release readiness, reliability, performance, security validation, and customer experience. Build and scale a global quality engineering team, shift toward modern automated and risk-based validation with observability and continuous delivery, and drive release governance, quality metrics, and cross-portfolio defect prevention and resilience improvements.

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Senior Director, Engineering - Quality (Security Business Group)

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Job Summary

Lead a strategic, hands-on quality engineering organization for Cisco Security’s Cloud and Network Security portfolio. Define enterprise quality strategy and a common framework across development, testing, release readiness, reliability, performance, security validation, and customer experience. Build and scale a global quality engineering team, shift toward modern automated and risk-based validation with observability and continuous delivery, and drive release governance, quality metrics, and cross-portfolio defect prevention and resilience improvements.
Location: San Jose
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Quality & Regulatory (Non-Software)
Seniority: Sr. Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Define and implement an enterprise-quality strategy for Cloud and Network Security products aligned to business priorities and Cisco security standards.
  • •Establish a quality engineering framework covering development, testing, release readiness, reliability, performance, security validation, and customer experience.
  • •Lead and grow a global Quality Engineering organization, fostering automation and continuous improvement and developing leaders.
  • •Partner with Product Management, Engineering, Security, SRE, Support, and Customer Experience to embed quality early in the product lifecycle.
  • •Drive modern quality practices and release governance, including automated validation, risk-based testing, observability, measurable quality outcomes, and cross-portfolio defect prevention and resilience improvements.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 293,900 - 406,800 annually
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVision401kPaid ParentalDisabilityLife InsuranceEquity

Key Requirements

  • •Bachelor’s degree or 15+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, quality engineering, reliability engineering, or related technical leadership roles.
  • •7+ years leading large, distributed engineering or quality organizations defining quality strategy for cloud-native, SaaS, networking, cybersecurity, or enterprise software products.
  • •Proven experience with CI/CD, automated testing, test infrastructure, API and UI validation, performance engineering, chaos/resilience testing, or production observability.
  • •Experience with cloud platforms, distributed systems, networking, and security technologies (e.g., firewalls, SASE).
  • •Preferred: experience with network security and threat detection products, and familiarity with secure SDLC and compliance-driven quality requirements.
Experience:15+ yearsCloud-nativeSaaSNetworkingCybersecurityEnterprise software
Education:Bachelor's in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
Skills:LeadershipBuilding quality frameworksAccountabilityContinuous improvementCross-functional collaboration
Tech Stack:CI/CDAutomated testingTest infrastructureAPIUI validationPerformance engineeringChaos/resilience testingObservabilityCloud platformsDistributed systemsNetworkingFirewallsSASEZero trustIdentityThreat detectionSecure SDLCDashboardsExecutive reporting

Company Brief

Cisco
Global technology company that designs, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and high-technology services and products for enterprises, service providers, and governments worldwide.
Industry: Networking Equipment
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Jose, United States
Founded: 1984
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