Infra Cyber Defense Leader: Secure Cloud & Networks

191 Altera Corporation; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 187,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

Altera in San Jose, California is seeking an Infrastructure Cyber Defense Leader to drive security strategy, operations, and resilience across enterprise networks, cloud, on‑premises, and hybrid environments. You will translate enterprise risk into practical security controls, oversee vulnerability management, cloud security (Azure and AWS), DevSecOps, and governance with measurable outcomes.

This role collaborates with IT, Engineering, Compliance, Legal, and business stakeholders to protect

Responsibilities

• Lead strategy and day-to-day execution of infrastructure defense across enterprise, cloud, data center, remote access, and engineering environments.
• Define security standards, procedures, objectives, service levels, and performance metrics for infrastructure security.
• Assess infrastructure risks and prioritize remediation based on business criticality, exploitability, exposure, and impact to production and IP.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure security roadmaps aligned to business priorities and threat intelligence.
• Monitor control effectiveness, open risks, remediation commitments, and unresolved security gaps.
• Identify opportunities to improve automation, visibility, and cyber resilience across the environment.
• Oversee network security capabilities including firewalls, secure web gateways, intrusion prevention, and network monitoring.
• Partner with Cloud Engineering and DevOps to integrate security into infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and container platforms.
• Lead application security and DevSecOps capabilities across internally developed apps and APIs, including SAST/DAST/IAST and SBOM controls.
• Drive governance, reporting, and continuous improvement with dashboards covering vulnerability exposure, cloud posture, and risk assessments.

Job description

Altera in San Jose, California is seeking an Infrastructure Cyber Defense Leader to drive security strategy, operations, and resilience across enterprise networks, cloud, on‑premises, and hybrid environments. You will translate enterprise risk into practical security controls, oversee vulnerability management, cloud security (Azure and AWS), DevSecOps, and governance with measurable outcomes.

This role collaborates with IT, Engineering, Compliance, Legal, and business stakeholders to protect