Cyber Offense & SOC Lead: Incident Response & Detection

Altera Corporation; San Jose, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 149,000 - 216,000; Full time

Job summary

Altera Corporation seeks a Cyber Offense, SOC, and Incident Response Lead to direct the global Security Operations Center and incident response capabilities. You will drive SOC processes, playbooks, and metrics across endpoints, cloud, and networks, working with cross-functional teams to detect, investigate, contain, and respond to threats.

The role emphasizes leadership in high-pressure environments, detection engineering, and automation, with a focus on faster, more consistent response and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Security, Cybersecurity, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of progressive cybersecurity experience, including hands-on security operations, incident response, threat detection, or SOC leadership.
• 3+ years of experience leading SOC analysts, incident response teams, or cross-functional cyber defense workflows.
• Strong working knowledge of SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, cloud security monitoring, identity security, email security, network security, and incident response processes.
• Experience building or improving detection use cases, alert triage workflows, response playbooks, escalation procedures, and SOC metrics.

Responsibilities

• Lead daily SOC operations across monitoring, alert triage, investigation, escalation, incident response coordination, and handoff across global time zones.
• Own and mature SOC operating procedures, including incident intake, severity classification, escalation paths, response playbooks, and post-incident reviews.
• Coordinate with security engineering, IT, cloud, identity, threat intel, and other teams to improve logging, telemetry, and automation.

Skills

SOC leadership

Incident response

Threat detection

SIEM

SOAR

EDR/XDR

Cloud security

Executive communication

Tabletop exercises

Detection engineering

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/CE/InfoSec or related field

8+ years cybersecurity experience

CISSP or Security+ or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Sentinel

Microsoft Defender XDR

KQL

UEBA

Job description

Altera Corporation seeks a Cyber Offense, SOC, and Incident Response Lead to direct the global Security Operations Center and incident response capabilities. You will drive SOC processes, playbooks, and metrics across endpoints, cloud, and networks, working with cross-functional teams to detect, investigate, contain, and respond to threats.

The role emphasizes leadership in high-pressure environments, detection engineering, and automation, with a focus on faster, more consistent response and