Head Of Threat Management

As the Head of the Threat Management team, you will have a substantial impact on the security of millions of Meraki users all around the world. We are looking for people who are passionate about incident response, threat detection, cyber intelligence, and have substantial experience in building and leading 24x7 Threat Management programs in a highly distributed environment for rapidly growing organizations. At Meraki, you and your team will have the opportunity to be a part of a tight-knit engineering organization working with experienced, helpful engineers, particularly within our site reliability, IT, and security teams.

Your team will have significant influence over the tools that we use to monitor and audit our system and how/where we choose to deploy them. Your team will be responsible for coordinating the response to all security incidents. You will be able to motivate change across the entire stack, from the UI and backend all the way through to the device firmware.

You will support other security teams in driving business-friendly security and process improvements. Finally, by developing our capabilities to promptly detect and lead the response to threats, you will have a direct, immediate, and positive impact on our customers and the hundreds of millions of users that use and rely on Meraki access points, switches, security appliances, and cameras every single day. We are passionate about building real products that our customers love.

We believe in fostering a positive culture by hiring, coaching, and empowering experienced, helpful, humble people. 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 awesome office overlooking the Bay Bridge, stocked full of food and drinks.

Key responsibilities for the detection and response team: Partner with the Meraki Chief Information Security Officer and heads of every major product team to ensure a quick mobilization and management of high-severity incidents Ownership of our detection stack strategy and requirements, including: Security Incident and Event Monitoring (SIEM) File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) Vulnerability Scanners Network and Host Intrusion Detection EDR and End Point Protection NetFlow and Full Packet Capture Advanced security analytics and machine learning Leverage and extend existing monitoring and tooling to ensure we quickly detect anomalous behavior in our infrastructure Own and lead our 24x7 monitoring and incident response/coordination processes and delivery in partnership with Cisco Help develop playbooks and advanced automation requirements to ensure the security development team can deliver scale and efficiency to the program Coordination and integration of Threat intelligence to inform the program Partner with teams to help augment our infrastructure through a threat informed defense approach, ensuring we can adapt our controls as needed based on learning from security incidents Perform forensics as needed Work with other engineers to proactively add monitoring to new features and services You are an ideal candidate if you: Have experience leading incident response teams Have a calm methodical approach to investigating potential threats under pressure Have 10+ years of experience leading cyber incident response programs Know and love learning about the latest security tools, infrastructure, and industry best practices Familiarity with search/analytics platforms such as ELK, SQL, Splunk Enjoy working across and being a resource for other engineers Are excited to champion security as a first-class concern Bonus points for: Encyclopedic knowledge of detection and response tools, for example: Intrusion Detection, EDR, Vulnerability Scanners, Intelligence Feeds, SIEM Platforms, Analytics Technologies Know and recognize common vulnerability types, including SQL/command injection, XSS, CSRF, and SSRF Experience with IoT platforms, large-scale distributed systems, and/or client-server architectures Shown ability to operate in a dynamic environment Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S.: When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses.

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employees have access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings. Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday, plus a day off for their birthday. Employees accrue up to 20 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) each year and have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues without tapping into their PTO.

We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community. Employees are also able to purchase company stock through our Employee Stock Purchase Program. Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components.

For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco pays at the standard rate of 1% of incentive target for each 1% revenue attainment against the quota up to 100%. Once performance exceeds 100% quota attainment, incentive rates may increase up to five times the standard rate with no cap on incentive compensation. For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay up to 125% of target.

Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.