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About the role
This principal-level individual contributor serves as Altera’s senior technical authority for network security architecture and engineering. The role defines scalable security patterns, guides complex designs, and provides hands-on expertise to strengthen the resilience, integrity, and protection of Altera’s global infrastructure and data.
What they're looking for
- 8+ years of progressive experience in enterprise networking and cybersecurity, including substantial experience designing security architecture for large, distributed environments
- Demonstrated success serving as a principal engineer, architect, or senior technical authority for complex network-security programs and transformations
- Proven ability to own technical outcomes from discovery and requirements through design, implementation guidance, validation, and operational transition
- Experience in firewall management, administration, and operations including firewall architecture, policy lifecycle management, rule recertification, configuration hardening, and operational governance
- Ability to identify and reduce attack paths, improve rule hygiene, expand segmentation coverage, and strengthen network telemetry
- Proficiency in network incident response, technical escalation, root-cause analysis, and remediation design
More about this role
This principal-level individual contributor serves as Altera’s senior technical authority for network security architecture and engineering. The role defines scalable security patterns, guides complex designs, and provides hands-on expertise to strengthen the resilience, integrity, and protection of Altera’s global infrastructure and data.
- 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, network, and cloud security
As Principal Network Security Engineer/Architect, you will shape, design, and improve the security of Altera’s on-premises, cloud, and hybrid network environments. You will operate as a hands-on technical lead and trusted advisor, influencing engineering teams through architecture, standards, technical decisions, and mentorship without direct people-management responsibility.
- Define and evolve Altera’s enterprise network security strategy, target-state architecture, technical roadmap, and reusable reference...
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