Infrastructure Cyber Defense Leader - San Jose, California, United States
$187,000 - $270,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 2 October 2026 by the employer.
Protect semiconductor design environments, operations, intellectual property, corporate systems, engineering platforms, and critical business services.
About the role
Altera is seeking a technically capable Infrastructure Cyber Defense Leader to lead enterprise infrastructure security strategy, operations, and continuous improvement across network, cloud, on-premises, and hybrid technology environments.
What you'll do
- Lead the strategy, operating model, and day-to-day execution of infrastructure defense capabilities across enterprise, cloud, data center, remote access, and engineering environments.
- Oversee enterprise network security capabilities, including firewalls, secure web gateways, intrusion prevention, network segmentation, remote access, DNS security, DDoS protection, and network monitoring.
- Lead security architecture, governance, and operational control implementation across Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, and hybrid cloud environments.
- Lead and mature application security and DevSecOps capabilities across internally developed applications, APIs, cloud-native services, and engineering platforms.
- Lead the enterprise vulnerability management program across network devices, servers, endpoints, cloud resources, applications, containers, engineering systems, and assets.
- Lead security architecture reviews for infrastructure, cloud, network, identity, data center, and technology transformation initiatives.
What you'll need
- Experience with Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Entra ID, Azure Policy, Azure Firewall, Azure Key Vault, Azure Monitor, Azure Networking, Azure Security Center capabilities, and Azure landing zones.
- Experience with AWS Security Hub, GuardDuty, Inspector, IAM, Organizations, Control Tower, CloudTrail, AWS Config, KMS, VPC security, and centralized logging.
- Experience with Windows and Linux security, endpoint protection, server hardening, virtualization, storage, databases, backup platforms, privileged access, patch management, and configuration management.
- Experience with vulnerability scanners, attack-surface management, penetration testing, configuration assessment, remediation tracking, exception management, and risk-based prioritization.
- Experience with Zero Trust, secure network architecture, cloud reference architectures, identity-centric security, segmentation, encryption, resiliency, and secure-by-design reviews.
- Experience with NIST CSF, NIST SP 800-53, CIS Controls, ISO/IEC 27001, IEC 62443, SOC 2, and SOX/ITGC security frameworks.
- Experience with Secure SDLC, threat modeling, secure coding, SAST, DAST, software composition analysis, API security testing, application penetration testing, dependency management, and security review processes.
- Experience with CI/CD security, infrastructure-as-code security, secrets management, container security, Kubernetes security, software bill of materials (SBOM), artifact integrity, code signing, policy-as-code, and automated security controls.
Skills: infrastructure security, network security, cloud security, vulnerability management, security architecture, cyber resilience
This role has been open 7 days — well below the 58-day median for Hardware Security Engineering roles.
Hardware Security Engineering · Hardware Security
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Open roles in category
179
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Median days open
58 d
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Median salary
$223k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Altera | All employers we track in this specialty (179 roles · 48 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 2 | 179 |
| Median days open | 5 d | 58 d (−53 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $223k |
Skills observed across this category: infrastructure security, network security, cloud security, vulnerability management, security architecture, cyber resilience
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 25 open roles · median 28 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 24 open roles · median 89 d
- Qualcomm · 20 open roles · median 106 d
- Arm Holdings · 13 open roles · median 93 d
- STMicroelectronics · 11 open roles · median 11 d
- AMD · 9 open roles · median 35 d
How we counted: 179 open Hardware Security Engineering (Hardware Security) roles from 48 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 9 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there. Figures refresh nightly.