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The application window is expected to close on: December 11th, 2025

Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

This is a remote role withing the U.S.

The successful applicant will be performing work on US Government classified environments, and therefore, must be a U.S. Person (i.e. U.S. citizen, U.S. national, lawful permanent resident, asylee, or refugee). This position may also perform work that the U.S. government has specified can only be performed by a U.S. Citizen on U.S. soil.

Meet the Team

We are the Threat Intelligence Team within Security, Visibility, and Incident Command (SVIC) at Cisco. Our team is responsible for delivering cyber threat intelligence to internal security teams across the company and the broader threat intelligence community. Our goal is to help protect Cisco, its business units, and increase the understanding of the threat landscape to help improve our security posture and reduce risk.

We are a small agile team with a successful track record demonstrating how threat intelligence can be used across internal security teams to identify, protect, detect, and respond to threats impacting our environment.

Your Impact

+ Collect, process, and analyze data from internal and external sources to produce actionable intelligence products based on requirements from Cisco’s leadership

+ Develop partnerships with security teams across Cisco to provide data-driven insights into existing and emerging threats

+ Create impactful threat intelligence reports that aid prioritization of preventative controls and mitigations to improve Cisco's internal security posture

+ Maintain visibility and understanding of the threat landscape as it relates to adversaries with the highest capability and intent to disrupt Cisco's operations

+ Support response to internal incidents by analyzing intelligence collected during investigations and building a common understanding of threat activities and attribution

+ Drive complex initiatives with key business partners to continuously improve visibility

+ Collaborate across teams for training, development opportunities, and service improvement

+ Capture metrics in direct-support to executive-level briefings (daily, weekly, monthly)

+ Ensure that all documents, workflows and processes remain accurate and up-to-date

Minimum Qualifications

+ 3+ years of experience as a SOC Analyst, Detection Engineer, or Threat Intelligence Analyst

+ 2+ years of experience analyzing indicators and incorporating them into organizational security posture improvements

+ 2+ years using Cybersecurity Frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK, Diamond Model, Cyber Kill Chain, etc. to map and contextualize intelligence and behaviors

+ 2+ years of experience building threat reports for various levels of leadership

+ Preferred Qualifications

+ 2+ years studying and analyzing threat adversaries and the threat landscape

+ Experience with Atlassian products such as Jira and Confluence

+ Experience with Threat Intelligence Platforms to manage indicators

+ Experience with Intelligence Management Platforms to organize, cluster, and enrich intelligence

+ Experience building actor profiles and attributing activity to them

+ Experience tracking specific adversaries and hunting for their infrastructure

+ Experience with Censys, Shodan, VirusTotal, and other vendor platforms

+ Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to see things through the customer’s eyes

+ Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information security or related field or equivalent work experience

Why 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. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.

Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:

The starting salary range posted for this position is $91,600.00 to $116,200.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position 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. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

+ 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, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco

+ Non-exempt employees** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees

+ Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)

+ 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next

+ Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members

+ Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. 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 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:

New York City Metro Area:

$110,800.00 - $161,700.00

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

$97,700.00 - $142,500.00

* For quota-based sales roles on Cisco’s sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.

** Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.

Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis.

Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.