Our mission at Cisco Meraki is to simplify technology so our customers can focus on what's most important to them: their students, patients, customers, and businesses. We’re making networking easier, faster, and smarter with technology that simply works! With millions of online devices managed from the cloud, we are able to use real-time data to continuously improve the performance, stability and security of our products.
As Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), you will have a tremendous impact on the security of hundreds of thousands of networks supporting schools, businesses, and government agencies—and the globally distributed cloud that manages them. Your team will have the full spectrum of security aligned roles, including app sec, prod sec, compliance, and DnR, to name a few. You think about security both tactically as well as strategically, are a member of the greater security community, and understand how to build an organization. The opportunity has organization-wide responsibility and reports directly to senior engineering leadership (Meraki CTO & SVP of Engineering).
This role presents a unique opportunity to guide the future security posture for the world’s largest cloud networking platform. At Meraki, teams work on an exciting array of groundbreaking technologies from artificial intelligence & machine learning, to desktop agents, to container orchestration in the cloud and within IoT device firmware. We believe in fostering a positive culture by hiring, mentoring, and empowering inquisitive, helpful, humble people and providing equal opportunities for all employees to thrive. With the support of management, we constantly look within for ways to improve organizationally. Finally, we maintain a positive relationship with Cisco that gives us the stability and resources of a larger company without sacrificing our startup vibe—including an amazing office overlooking the Bay Bridge, stocked full of food and drinks.
Responsibilities of this role include:
- Leading a large, multi-level security and compliance organization with a focus on career growth and retention
- Being a strategic security advisor to all executive leaders of the Meraki business
- Identifying gaps in the security posture, inclusive of both corporate IT systems and practices, as well as our product portfolio of hardware and cloud services
- Leading your team in conducting threat analysis for our device-side and cloud software and auditing related code
- Working with product management to define and execute on a customer centric compliance and security roadmap
- Leading security incident response
