The Cisco Security Business Group (SBG) focuses on empowering the world to reach its full potential, securely through the Cisco Secure products. Within the SBG Security team, we support this mission by building thoughtful partnerships with our internal stakeholders to drive security strategy alignment across the SBG portfolio to deliver simple, effective security solutions for our internal customers that meet both market and industry expectations.
Our team's mission is to become our internal customers' most trusted partners by building best-in-class security programs that shape the market with our research, make it easy for our customer teams within Cisco to develop secure software, protect our most valuable information and customer assets, and enable SBG employees to work securely as they deliver Cisco Secure products including Duo, Umbrella, SecureX, Talos, Amp for Endpoints, StealthWatch, Tetration, and beyond.
#WeAreCisco, where each person is unique and our team is our secret weapon. We run the spectrum from artists to analysts, low-key to high energy, and bring together a diversity of skill sets, experiences, and perspectives to solve the complex problems that come with securing a growing business. Together we build solutions that are easy, effective, trustworthy, and enduring.
We are looking for a Manager to focus on supporting day-to-day operations of our public sector team, which includes FedRAMP, CMMC, and other state and local government laws, regulations and agency rules. This role will oversee a team of strategists, technical implementation leads, and a team of FedRAMP leads. The team is responsible for public sector projects across multiple products and collaborating with engineers, architects, key partners and execute FedRAMP program requirements while driving multi-product architectural and executive alignment.
What You Will Do:

• Establish operating standards for FedRAMP technology and compliance program activities.
• Partner with internal customers to help manage roadmap activities for FedRAMP program activities.
• Partner with Market Access to convert market access needs into the Federal roadmap.
• Manage relationships with multiple stakeholders for team alignment and ensuring strategic alignment and driving commitments.
• Lead technology discoveries across multiple products and optimize opportunities for improving service offerings.
• Effectively communicate with management on decisions that impact multiple programs and teams.
• Partner with external partners to ensure Federal program activities are managed appropriately and organized in a manner that promotes alignment.

Skills You Have:

• Experience leading public sector compliance activities, including FedRAMP Moderate and High.
• Knowledge of public sector control requirements, including NIST 800-53.
• Experience in managing teams in a fast paced environment.
• Experience in leading technical and cross-functional projects in an enterprise wide capacity.
• The ability to identify dependencies between complex projects and determine potential impact.
• Experience in people managing to ensure team success.
• The ability to drive collaboration and influence multiple teams, both technical and non-technical.
• Experience in cloud computing, specifically security aspects of SaaS environments.

3 reasons to apply:

• You're a skilled manager looking for new growth opportunities.
• You are passionate about how compliance enhances security operations and provides trust to customers.
• You love driving process improvements for a fast growing security company and partnering with teams to implement improvements.

3 reasons to not apply:

• If you need a lot of well-established policies and procedures before you can make decisions and drive results, this might not be the best role for you.
• If you are looking for a check-the-box driven security compliance program.
• If you do not think partnership drives security results at a company.

Our team is committed to cultivating and preserving a culture of inclusion and connectedness. We are able to grow and learn better together with a diverse team of employees. The collective sum of the individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, innovation, self-expression, and talent that our employees invest in their work represents not only part of our culture, but our reputation and Cisco's achievement as well. In recruiting for our team, we welcome the unique contributions that all potential candidates can bring in terms of their education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, gender identity and expression, nationality, age, languages spoken, veteran's status, religion, disability, sexual orientation and beliefs.
And if this role is exciting to you, we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet all 100% of the description or qualifications. Finally and most importantly, we are a proud Equal Opportunity Employer.
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