Meet the Team Cisco’s Security Business Group is securing the world. We are building next generation of security which securely connects user to their data and applications. This is an excellent opportunity to join Cisco's growing and dynamic Cisco's Security Business Group. We are looking for an experienced Director who strives in a dynamic environment. You will be providing the technical vision as well as people leadership for an expert team working on next-generation firewall management products available on all public & private cloud. Your Impact As a director you will be strategizing and driving the Cisco Virtual Firewall portfolio across all public cloud and private cloud for our customers. The ideal candidate will be highly collaborative with the ability to lead and encourage multi-functional teams while remaining results-orientated and driving value creation. You possess the technical savvy required to work comfortably with our engineers, and the keenness for business to operationalize solutions while prioritize customer-centricity, focusing on the big-picture vision that our leaders can get passionate about. You will handle and lead a team of managers, engineers and architects working on virtual firewall products & solutions. In this role, you will have the opportunity to work closely with customers and other partners to drive requirement and solution. Responsibilities include: * Engineering ownership of the Cisco Virtual Firewall product portfolio across public cloud service providers (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, Alibaba) & private cloud infrastructure (Esxi, KVM, Nutanix, OpenStack, etc) * Evangelizing the virtual firewall strategy with relevant teams to produce the market leading virtual firewall offering for Cisco * Researching and synthesizing market requirements, market and technology trends, and competitive analyses to understand the future trends for virtual firewall products * Grow and develop a highly diverse and mission driven engineering teams to deliver on the Virtual Firewall Roadmap * Set and communicate team priorities that support the broader organization's goals. Align strategy, processes, and decision-making across teams * Defining the vision and success measures for prioritized solutions, in collaboration with key players across the business * Be a technologist working across different public and private cloud infrastructure & services * Be a link between Product Management and Engineering teams by comprehending complex customer requirements and translating them to engineering features Minimum Qualifications * demonstrated ability in engineering, providing product outlook and roadmaps, leading end-to-end product development * proven experience handling engineering teams in organizations. * demonstrated ability developing software products Preferred Qualifications * Experience in creating, executing, and delivering against contending features and driving business impact. * Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to represent and advocate complex business or technical concepts. * Experience in engineering leadership with a demonstrated track record of technical innovation and leading large-scale organizations. * Understanding of Network Security & Cloud security industry * Good understanding of virtualization and cloud development. Experience in either of ESXi, KVM is desired * Good experience in one or more of public cloud platform like AWS, Azure, GCP * Experience with Docker & Kubernetes * Experience in handling Agile teams responsible for both development, testing and automation. #WeAreCisco where every individual brings their unique skills and perspectives together to pursue our purpose of powering an inclusive future for all. Our passion is connection—we celebrate our employees’ diverse set of backgrounds and focus on unlocking potential. Cisconians often experience one company, many careers where learning and development are encouraged and supported at every stage. Our technology, tools, and hybrid work trends, allowing all to not only give their best, but be their best. We understand our outstanding opportunity to bring communities together and at the heart of that is our people. 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