Cisco Engineer

About this role

Position Overview: The Senior Secure Workload Engineer will provide hands-on planning, implementation, operationalization, and knowledge transfer for an enterprise workload visibility and segmentation initiative. The consultant will establish a repeatable, application-aligned Cisco Secure Workload approach, support phased adoption, produce clear documentation, and work collaboratively with the customer team to build sustainable operational capability.

Responsibilities: Define and execute a repeatable Cisco Secure Workload implementation roadmap using a controlled pilot and phased, application-aligned rollout. Assess the existing Secure Workload deployment across a diverse enterprise environment and recommend practical next steps for broader adoption. Map application components, dependencies, and traffic patterns to support workload visibility and segmentation decisions.

Plan and implement agent deployment across supported enterprise systems while identifying alternative visibility approaches where agents are not appropriate. Develop segmentation policies and validate application communications before progressing through staged enforcement. Coordinate with infrastructure, security, identity, network, and application stakeholders throughout planning and implementation. Create implementation documentation, operational procedures, and a repeatable onboarding approach for future applications.

Work side by side with customer team members, emphasizing hands-on coaching and sustainable knowledge transfer. Qualifications: Senior-level hands-on experience with Cisco Secure Workload or a comparable workload visibility and microsegmentation platform. Experience planning application-based segmentation and mapping application dependencies and traffic patterns. Experience implementing workload agents across Windows and Linux enterprise environments.

Understanding of enterprise networking, identity services, shared services, security policy, and application communication flows. Experience developing, validating, and operationalizing segmentation policies in complex environments. Ability to produce clear technical documentation and establish repeatable implementation and operating procedures. Strong customer-facing communication, facilitation, collaboration, and hands-on knowledge-transfer skills.