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 hands‑on technical role, you will support platform hardening, identity and access security, vulnerability management, threat detection, and incident response for infrastructure-focused threats.
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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 800‑53, and ISO 27001. Knowledge of CMMC is a plus.
• 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.
• Collaborate with Legal, Privacy, Risk, IT Ops, Cloud, DevOps, and Engineering teams.
• Communicate findings and risk recommendations to technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Prepare documentation, operational reports, and risk summaries.
• 4–7+ 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.
• 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 security‑first thinking.
Regular
Shift 1 (India)
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Penang 16, Penang, Malaysia
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.
Altera: Accelerating Innovators
Altera provides leadership programmable solutions that are easy-to-use and deploy in applications from cloud to edge, offering limitless AI possibilities. Our end-to-end broad portfolio of products including FPGAs, CPLDs, Intellectual Property, development tools, System on Modules, SmartNICs and IPUs provide the flexibility to accelerate innovation. Altera is helping to shape the future through pioneering innovation that unlocks extraordinary possibilities for everyone on the planet.
