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Job Description:
About the Role
For decades, Altera has been at the forefront of programmable logic innovation. Our technologies empower customers worldwide to build industryâdefining solutions, and we are committed to becoming the #1 FPGA company globally. We are seeking a Senior Manager, Network Security to lead Alteraâs network security operations, detection engineering, and response capabilities.
This senior leadership role is responsible for managing a team of analysts and engineers, driving the maturity of Alteraâs network security program, and ensuring the resilience, integrity, and protection of Alteraâs global infrastructure and data.
Department Description
Alteraâs IT Security organization is responsible for:
- 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 Senior Manager, Network Security, you will lead the teams that design, monitor, and protect Alteraâs network environments across onâpremises, cloud, and hybrid infrastructures.
What You Will Do
The Senior Manager, Network Security oversees enterprise-wide network security operations, drives strategic improvements, and leads teams responsible for defending Alteraâs global network environment.
Strategic Leadership & Program Ownership
- Own and mature Alteraâs network security strategy, roadmap, and operational execution.
- Lead a team of senior security analysts and engineers, providing direction, coaching, and professional development.
- Drive adoption of Zero Trust, microâsegmentation, and modern secure network design principles.
- Define KPIs, metrics, and reporting frameworks for network security performance.
Network Security Engineering & Architecture Leadership
- Oversee secure network architecture reviews for datacenter, campus, cloud, WAN, remote access, and hybrid environments.
- Evaluate new technologies, NDR, IDS/IPS platforms, and firewall capabilities to improve detection and resilience.
- Partner with network engineering, cloud, and product security teams to embed security into designs and operations.
- Ensure standardized configurations, hardening, and network security controls across global environments.
Threat Detection, Monitoring, & Incident Response
- Lead and oversee investigations involving network intrusions, advanced malware, privilege misuse, and exfiltration attempts.
- Ensure robust visibility, telemetry collection, and tuning across SIEM, NDR, firewalls, and network logs.
- Direct major incident response actions, coordinating with executive stakeholders as needed.
- Review and approve incident summaries, afterâaction reports, and remediation plans.
Risk Management, Governance & Compliance
- Oversee risk assessments for new systems, cloud services, and network architecture changes.
- Lead development and governance of network security policies, standards, and technical guidelines.
- Ensure alignment with industry frameworks such as NIST CSF, NIST 800â53 and ISO 27001.
- Build and maintain compliance with regulatory and audit requirements.
CrossâFunctional Collaboration & Communication
- Act as the primary liaison for network security with Legal, Privacy, Risk, IT, Cloud, DevOps, and Product Security teams.
- Provide executiveâlevel briefings on threats, vulnerabilities, incidents, and program maturity.
- Collaborate with engineering leaders to ensure secure implementation of products, tools, and IT projects.
What You Bring
Leadership & Experience
- 8â12+ years of information security experience with a focus on network security, including 3â5 years in a leadership or management role.
- Demonstrated success building and leading highâperforming security teams.
- Experience owning and maturing network security or SOC program.
Technical Expertise
- Deep knowledge of network security architecture, segmentation, firewalls, IDS/IPS, VPN, proxies, and Zero Trust.
- Experience with tools for Firewalls, NDR, SIEM, and EDR
- Strong understanding of network protocols, packet analysis, and threat detection methodologies.
- Experience with cloud network security (Azure, AWS).
Operational & Strategic Skills
- Proficiency in incident response management and escalation handling.
- Ability to define operational processes, runbooks, and governance workflows.
- Expertise in risk assessments, control design, and audit readiness.
- Proficiency with automation (Python, KQL) is a plus.
Communication & Influence
- Excellent executiveâlevel communication skills.
- Ability to translate technical concepts into businessâaligned recommendations.
- Strong stakeholder management across technical and nonâtechnical teams.
Leadership Expectations
- Provide strategic direction and vision for network security at the enterprise level.
- Lead cross-functional crisis response during major incidents.
- Inspire, mentor, and grow nextâgeneration security leaders.
- Build a culture of accountability, continuous learning, and operational excellence.
Qualifications:
- 8â12+ years of information security experience with a focus on network security.
- 3â5+ years managing security teams or leading security operations.
- Deep expertise with firewalls, IDS/IPS, segmentation, Zero Trust, and hybrid cloud networking.
- Experience with SIEM (e.g., Microsoft Sentinel), NDR platforms, and EDR tools.
- Strong understanding of packet analysis, network protocols, and threat detection.
- Experience with Azure or AWS cloud security controls.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience with automation/scripting (Python, KQL) preferred.
Job Type:
Regular
Shift:
Shift 1 (Malaysia)
Primary Location:
Penang 15, Penang, Malaysia
Additional Locations:
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Posting Statement:
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.