Architect, Security Cloud Services

The Security Technology Group s Security Cloud Services team is looking for an experienced Senior Systems Architect to lead the overall technical direction for the organization. Security Cloud Services provides cloud-based security solutions to the networking world covering threat defense systems, security management and web and email security. This role will require you to work with databases that serve tens of billions of queries daily and systems that provide continuous updates to hundreds of thousands of customer installed servers around the world in a 24 x 7 production environment.Opportunity SnapshotIn this technical leadership role, the candidate will:
Lead functional architects; operations, networking, database, and storage engineers in the design and implementation of next generation platforms, mentoring them in both career direction as well as industry trends. Establish and maintain technology standards, evaluate and direct new technology designs to enable the delivery of security applications and capabilities within the cloud. Work collaboratively with development and QA organizations to drive engineering and architectural best practices broadly throughout the organization. Maintain intense focus on the customer; understanding customer challenges, disseminating that back into the organization, and constantly looking for ways to solve them.This candidate must be passionate about solving the toughest technology challenges in delivering networking and application security as a service in the cloud today as well as postulate on solutions that will solve problems that have yet to be fully formulated. An integral part of the role is to not only set technological strategy across Cisco, but work towards industry leading solutions that will form and potentially change the industry as a whole. The candidate must be excited by working at scale and designing distributed systems to solve a number of problems that have been traditionally addressed by vertically scaling and often expensive technology solutions. This position is full-time located in our San Jose office with some domestic and international travel.Skills & Experience 15+ years experience in requirements analysis, design, implementation and testing of distributed, fault-tolerant systems with particular attention to security, scalability, high performance, and cost optimization of cloud based offerings. The candidate should have a BS or BA, or advanced degree in computer science, engineering or related field or relevant work experience. The candidate must be an exceptional communicator comfortable with all levels of the enterprise including Sr. Executives and be able to communicate advanced technical topics to audiences of varying levels of technical expertise. The candidate must have strong relationship skills, be able to build rapport with peers and more junior engineers and architects, and be able to foster a productive collaborative environment. Demonstrated expertise and leadership in working with business units, product management, development and operations to architect innovative solutions that meet the requirements with respect to functionality, performance, scalability, reliability, realistic implementation schedules and adherence to architectural goals and principles. Experience with architecting high volume web systems or large transaction client-server systems. Strong grasp of security concepts and current technology including firewalls, intrusion detection systems, anti-malware and antivirus technologies. Understanding of network design, including IP communication, packet structure, and routing protocols, in a high volume Internet scale environment. Ability to mentor other architects and engineers in career and skill growth Experience with web services; virtualization; cloud concepts; SAN/NAS storage; RDBMS, columnar, and alternate DB models; coding in shell, python or perl; XML, MySQL, PHP, LDAP, and object oriented methodologies