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Meet the Team

Splunk is here to build a safer and more resilient digital world, and the world's leading enterprises use our unified security and observability platform to keep their digital systems secure and reliable. Join Splunk's Tech Compliance team, where we manage security and compliance programs that are integral to the trust customers place in Splunk. We build consultative partnerships with product owners, engineering, and security teams to drive risk mitigation and controls management across a broad range of frameworks and environments, while actively building toward a more automated and scalable way of operating compliance programs in a fast-changing landscape.

Your Impact

As a Senior Security Governance & Compliance Manager at Splunk, you will own and drive programs, partnering closely with product, engineering, and security teams. You will serve as a domain expert for security compliance and help the team build toward more scalable and automated compliance operations.

• Plan and execute audit programs from scoping through certification delivery
• Translate complex compliance requirements into clear, actionable implementation guidance for engineering and product teams
• Conduct gap analysis to assess audit readiness and ensure new products and features meet compliance requirements, and track remediation progress to closure
• Support continuous monitoring (ConMon) obligations to maintain compliance posture
• Build and use automation and AI tooling to scale compliance programs, including automating evidence collection, compliance testing, and reporting
• Monitor regulatory changes and assess impact

Minimum Qualifications

• Must be an existing US citizen
• 7 or more years of experience in technical compliance, security, or risk roles with direct responsibility for audit or certification delivery (FedRAMP, DISA SRG, NIST 800-53, CMMC, DFARS, IRAP, ISMAP, or similar)
• Experience owning technical audit certification programs from scoping through delivery, including control mapping, evidence collection, remediation, and auditor engagement
• Demonstrated experience building automation to streamline evidence collection, testing, and compliance reporting including using AI tools.
• Experience with implementing and assessing security across cloud-hosted environments and common IT and engineering technologies

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated program management skills with a track record of coordinating cross-functional workstreams and driving programs to completion under competing priorities
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to articulate complex compliance topics to auditors, engineers, and senior leadership
• Experience managing US Public Sector programs and familiarity with FedRAMP 20x modernization requirements
• Familiarity with AI governance concepts and emerging frameworks such as ISO 42001 and NIST AI RMF
• Relevant industry certifications such as CISA, CISSP, CISM, or CRISC

Why Cisco? 

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere. 

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you. 

Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:

The starting salary range posted for this position is $158,800.00 to $206,400.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits.

Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks.  Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.

U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies:

• 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees

• 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco

• Non-exempt employees** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees

• Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)

• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next

• Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members

• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

• .75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

• 1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

• 1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and

• Once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:

New York City Metro Area:

$158,800.00 - $237,400.00

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

$137,700.00 - $211,100.00

* For quota-based sales roles on Cisco’s sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.

** Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.