Cloud Technology Compliance Engineer

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  • Location:
    San Jose, California, US
  • Alternate Location
    Anywhere in the US
  • Area of Interest
    Information Technology
  • Compensation Range
    108700 USD - 135900 USD
  • Job Type
    Professional
  • Technology Interest
    Security
  • Job Id
    1438217

In today’s dynamic digital environment, security is everyone’s job. At Cisco, the Security and Trust Organization is at the core of making infrastructure more secure. Your involvement in this strategic and results-oriented team will enable you to be part of Cisco’s major objectives – to be the Number 1 Trusted Business partner to our customers. The STO reports to Cisco’s Chief Security and Trust Officer and owns the innovation, training, and implementation of security and trust features and processes across all of Cisco’s products.

 

The CloudARC group within the STO is responsible to drive all Compliance certifications across Cisco. The team is responsible for enabling and protecting global Cloud sales for our Commercial customers, US Government and Federal agencies, as well as many international standards bodies. This team works with Sales and Business Unit partners to ensure accurate security and trust features and functionality are included in new offer releases.

 

This Cloud Technology Compliance Engineer role will support the compliance strategy implementation across Cisco Cloud by supporting various security certifications like AICPA SOC2, ISO, PCI, and other Commercial and International Certifications. The ideal candidate will be a compliance subject matter expert who will “roll up” their sleeves to dig into the details of the various control frameworks, understanding Cisco Clouds current set up around people, process, and technology, and is able to perform Internal Assessments for various frameworks and Liaison with External Auditors.

 

The Cloud Technology Compliance Engineer role will work with a team of control auditors and will provide strategy and execution support for global certifications audits like SOC2, ISO, PCI, HIPAA, IRAP, C5 and others. The audit support activities will include, but are not limited to, performing internal readiness assessments, and liaising with external auditors in order to achieve Required Certifications.

Your Impact: 

  • Work with a team of compliance engineers focused on the strategic development of Common Controls and execution of controls internal readiness.
  • Work on the developing testing strategies for Internal Assessments of SaaS based Cloud products
  • Partner with various BUs to identify gaps and provide Remediation advice.
  • Expertise in testing People, Process, Technology Controls.
  • Liaison with external auditors and other internal teams to support certification audits
  • Be the subject matter expert of relevant Security Compliance frameworks and provide guidance to teams accordingly.
Minimum qualifications: 
  • College Degree – Bachelors/ master’s degree with a focus in Information Technology/ Computer Science or related field
  • 2-4 years of relevant experience in a security or compliance role
  • Hands-on experience with AWS and other cloud environments
  • Experience with security policies, standards, and controls definition 
Desired qualifications: 
  • A thorough understanding of risk management methodologies, frameworks, and principles (e.g., AICPA SOC2, FedRAMP, ISO, PCI, HIPAA, etc.) to evaluate and recommend the best approach to mitigating risk with best-in-class controls. 
  • Knowledge of Core IT processes/ services such as SDLC, Identity/ User Access Management, Vulnerability Management, Backup and DR processes will be useful
  • Big 4 Experience would be a plus
  • Excellent communication skills at all levels of the organization
  • Ability to prioritize and multi-task in a fast-changing environment
   
Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:

When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees have access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings.

Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday (for non-exempt employees), plus a day off for their birthday. Non-Exempt new hires accrue up to 16 days of vacation time off each year, at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period. Exempt new hires participate in Cisco’s flexible Vacation Time Off policy, which does not place a defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use, but is subject to availability and some business limitations. All new hires are eligible for Sick Time Off subject to Cisco’s Sick Time Off Policy and will have eighty (80) hours of sick time off provided on their hire date and on January 1st of each year thereafter.  Up to 80 hours of unused sick time will be carried forward from one calendar year to the next such that the maximum number of sick time hours an employee may have available is 160 hours. Employees in Illinois have a unique time off program designed specifically with local requirements in mind. All employees also have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

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