Senior Cloud Security Architect - Azure & AWS

Altera Corporation; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 149,000 - 216,000; Full time

Job summary

Altera Corporation is seeking a Senior Cloud Security Engineer to lead hands-on security design, implementation, and automation across Azure and AWS environments in San Jose. You will partner with platform, infrastructure, identity, and security teams to build secure cloud foundations, enforce guardrails, and drive secure-by-default practices.

The role emphasizes cloud architecture, identity and access management, network security, and infrastructure-as-code, with OCI experience a plus.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in cloud security, cloud engineering, or related field.
• Hands-on security engineering in both Azure and AWS.
• Strong understanding of cloud IAM, federation, privileged access, and workload identities.
• Experience designing/securing cloud networking (segmentation, firewalls, private connectivity).
• Experience with IaC tooling and automation in cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement secure architectures for Azure and AWS environments, including landing zones and networks.
• Establish cloud security reference architectures, patterns, guardrails, and configuration standards.
• Develop and automate secure configurations and checks via IaC and policy-as-code.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and incident response for cloud environments.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure secure cloud design and operations.

Skills

Cloud security

Azure

AWS

Identity & access management

Networking security

Infrastructure as code

Scripting (Python, PowerShell, Bash)

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS or related field

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Bicep

Open Policy Agent

Checkov

Kubernetes

Job description

Altera Corporation is seeking a Senior Cloud Security Engineer to lead hands-on security design, implementation, and automation across Azure and AWS environments in San Jose. You will partner with platform, infrastructure, identity, and security teams to build secure cloud foundations, enforce guardrails, and drive secure-by-default practices.

The role emphasizes cloud architecture, identity and access management, network security, and infrastructure-as-code, with OCI experience a plus.