Job Details
Job Description:
About The Role
For decades, Altera has been at the forefront of programmable logic innovation. Our technologies empower customers worldwide to build industry-defining solutions, and we are committed to becoming the #1 FPGA company globally. We are seeking a Senior Manager, Infrastructure Security to lead Altera's infrastructure security engineering, platform hardening, identity and access security, vulnerability management, and infrastructure-focused detection and response functions. We are seeking a Senior Security Analyst Infrastructure Security to strengthen Altera's infrastructure protection capabilities across datacenters, cloud environments, identity systems, and key enterprise platforms. In this handson technical role, you will support platform hardening, identity and access security, vulnerability management, threat detection, and incident response for infrastructure-focused threats.
Department Description
Altera's IT Security Organization Is Responsible For
Incident response and digital forensics.
Threat hunting and event analysis.
Security policy, standards, and governance.
Risk assessments and advisory.
Security architecture and engineering support.
Threat detection, monitoring, and forensic capabilities.
Security awareness and education.
Endpoint, infrastructure, and cloud security.
As a Senior Security Analyst, you will work closely with teams across these functions to secure and protect Altera's infrastructure.
Infrastructure Security Engineering & Hardening
- Implement and maintain, secure configurations and hardening practices for Windows, Linux, virtualization, identity, and cloud environments.
- Perform infrastructure security reviews for servers, cloud deployments, and datacenter technologies.
- Assist with evaluating and deploying tools such as EDR, vulnerability scanners, cloud security agents, and logging integrations.
- Collaborate with IT Operations, Cloud, Network, and Platform Engineering to embed security into system build processes.
Threat Detection, Monitoring & Incident Response
- Conduct investigations involving system compromise, identity misuse, privilege escalation, malware, and data exfiltration.
- Analyze infrastructure logs, cloud logs, identity telemetry, EDR alerts, and SIEM events.
- Develop detection logic and tune alerting to reduce false positives.
- Participate in incident response, contributing analysis, containment, forensics, and remediation support.
- Document incident findings and recommendations.
Vulnerability Management & Risk Reduction
- Perform vulnerability assessments across servers, cloud workloads, and enterprise platforms.
- Analyze remediation requirements and track closure with system owners.
- Support risk assessments for new systems, cloud services, and infrastructure changes.
- Validate controls against NIST CSF, NIST 80053, and ISO 27001. Knowledge of CMMC is a plus.
Governance, Standards & Compliance Support
- Contribute to infrastructure security policies, baselines, and secure configuration standards.
- Provide security requirements and best practices to engineering and operations teams.
- Assist with evidence collection for audits and compliance efforts.
CrossFunctional Collaboration & Communication
- Collaborate with Legal, Privacy, Risk, IT Ops, Cloud, DevOps, and Engineering teams.
- Communicate findings and risk recommendations to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
- Prepare documentation, operational reports, and risk summaries.
Experience & Skills
- 47+ years in information security or infrastructure engineering.
- Strong experience with infrastructure security concepts: Windows/Linux hardening, AD/Entra ID, virtualization, Azure/AWS, vulnerability management, EDR, SIEM.
- Solid understanding of system internals, network protocols, authentication, and common attack techniques.
- Scripting experience (Python, PowerShell, KQL) is a plus.
Leadership Expectations (Individual Contributor)
- Demonstrate ownership and accountability for infrastructure security tasks.
- Drive improvements in detection, hardening, and operational processes.
- Mentor junior analysts and share knowledge.
- Contribute to a culture of technical excellence and securityfirst thinking.
Qualifications
- 4 to 7+ years of experience in infrastructure, cloud, or security engineering roles.
- Experience working in mixed infrastructure environments (onprem datacenters, hybrid cloud, SaaS, virtualization, storage, identity systems).
- Prior experience managing large-scale, missioncritical security initiatives (Zero Trust, PAM rollout, cloud hardening, monitoring expansion, etc.).
- Experience in implementing controls to secure fab networks, EDA toolchains, test engineering systems, and HPC clusters is a plus.
- Experience supporting 247 operations or global follow-the-sun teams is a plus.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
Job Type
Regular
Shift
Shift 1 (India)
Primary Location:
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Additional Locations:
Penang 16, Penang, Malaysia
Posting Statement
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.
