Full-Time

Security Operations Center Lead

Altera

Altera

FPGA and SoC provider with software

No salary listed

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

In Person

Shift 1 (Malaysia).

Bachelor's

Category
IT & Security (1)
Required Skills
LLM
Microsoft Azure
Incident Response
Cybersecurity
AWS
Google Cloud Platform
Requirements
  • A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Security, Cybersecurity, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • At least 5 years of progressive cybersecurity experience, including significant hands-on experience in security operations, incident response, threat detection, or SOC leadership.
  • At least 3 years of experience leading SOC analysts, incident response teams, managed security operations, or cross-functional cyber defense workflows.
  • Strong working knowledge of security information and event management, security orchestration, automation and response, endpoint detection and response or extended detection and response, cloud security monitoring, identity security, email security, network security, and incident response processes.
  • Demonstrated experience building or improving detection use cases, alert triage workflows, response playbooks, escalation procedures, and SOC metrics.
  • Experience coordinating investigations involving phishing, malware, endpoint compromise, suspicious authentication, privileged access misuse, data exposure, and cloud security events.
  • Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, NIST SP 800-61, ISO 27001, CIS Controls, or equivalent cyber defense frameworks.
  • Ability to communicate clearly with technical teams, business stakeholders, senior leadership, and external partners during security incidents.
  • Strong analytical, documentation, prioritization, and decision-making skills in high-pressure operational environments.
  • CISSP, Security+, or an equivalent industry certification.
Responsibilities
  • Lead daily security operations center operations across monitoring, alert triage, investigation, escalation, incident response coordination, and operational handoff across global time zones.
  • Own and mature security operations center operating procedures, including incident intake, severity classification, escalation paths, response playbooks, major incident communications, and post-incident reviews.
  • Manage and improve security monitoring across SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, email security, cloud security, identity security, vulnerability signals, network telemetry, and threat intelligence sources.
  • Build, tune, and continuously improve detection use cases aligned to enterprise risks, MITRE ATT&CK techniques, threat intelligence, audit findings, and business-critical assets.
  • Partner with security engineering teams to improve log onboarding, data quality, telemetry coverage, alert fidelity, automation, and response integrations.
  • Lead incident response coordination for security events involving endpoint compromise, identity misuse, phishing, malware, data loss indicators, cloud misconfigurations, suspicious network activity, and unauthorized access attempts.
  • Establish security operations center performance metrics and reporting, including alert volumes, false-positive rates, SLA adherence, escalation quality, mean time to detect, mean time to acknowledge, mean time to contain, and incident trends.
  • Oversee security operations center analyst workflows, shift handoffs, case documentation, evidence handling, and quality assurance reviews.
  • Coordinate with managed security service providers, internal IT teams, and business stakeholders to ensure timely response and clear ownership of remediation actions.
  • Support implementation and operationalization of SOAR playbooks, automation workflows, enrichment logic, and incident response runbooks.
  • Drive continuous improvement through tabletop exercises, incident retrospectives, purple-team findings, threat hunting outputs, and lessons learned.
  • Maintain alignment with security governance, regulatory, privacy, and audit requirements by ensuring security operations center processes are documented, repeatable, measurable, and evidence-ready.
  • Serve as a security operations lead for global security operations center coverage and cross-functional collaboration.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience operating or transforming a global security operations center in an enterprise environment.
  • Experience working as an Incident Commander and leading incident response execution for the company.
  • Experience working with Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender XDR, KQL, UEBA, or comparable security operations platforms.
  • Experience with cloud security monitoring across Azure, AWS, GCP, or hybrid cloud environments.
  • Experience with threat hunting, purple-team collaboration, adversary emulation, or detection engineering.
  • Experience managing managed detection and response providers or outsourced security operations center services.
  • Experience in semiconductor, technology, manufacturing, or intellectual property-intensive environments.
  • Familiarity with GenAI-assisted security operations center workflows, including alert enrichment, analyst productivity, incident summarization, and security automation.
  • Additional certifications such as CEH or similar.

Altera designs and manufactures Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) and System-on-Chips (SoCs) and sells design software. Its programmable logic devices let customers configure hardware after manufacturing to fit specific applications, supported by toolchains for hardware design and deployment. It serves automotive, communications, aerospace, and expanding sectors like AI, cloud, and edge computing, focusing on flexible, high-performance processing solutions. As an independent company after separating from Intel, its goal is to help customers bring customized hardware to market quickly by providing both configurable silicon and the software to design for it.

Company Size

N/A

Company Stage

Acquired

Total Funding

$21.2B

Headquarters

San Jose, California

Founded

1983

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Reuters July 10, 2026 said Altera grows roughly 20% annually.
  • August 11, 2026 DDR5 and LPDDR5X support strengthens AI, networking, and embedded wins.
  • June 8, 2026 Agilex 9 partnerships with Mercury Systems and VadaTech deepen defense reach.

What critics are saying

  • AMD Xilinx Versal and Intel's residual 49% stake squeeze Altera's strategic freedom.
  • Reuters July 10, 2026 said Altera still prepares for an eventual public listing.
  • Eighty-two San Jose layoffs signal cost pressure while DIU and defense prototypes remain unproven volume.

What makes Altera unique

  • Pure-play FPGA focus lets Altera optimize software, tools, and silicon together.
  • Agilex 9 Direct RF integrates converters, compute, and memory for tight SWaP.
  • Quartus 26.1.1 adds DDR5 across Agilex, preserving customers' hardware investments.

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HPCwire
Aug 11th, 2026
Altera expands DDR5 memory support across Agilex FPGA portfolio.

Altera expands DDR5 memory support across Agilex FPGA portfolio. August 11, 2026 Press play to listen to this content Broad DDR5, LPDDR5 and LPDDR5X-compatible memory support gives developers more bandwidth, greater flexibility and improved supply resilience SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 11, 2026 - Altera today announced expanded DDR5 memory support across its Agilex FPGA portfolio with the release of Quartus Prime Pro Edition Software version 26.1.1. The update adds new DDR5, LPDDR5 and LPDDR5X-compatible memory capabilities to more Agilex FPGAs, enabling developers to build higher-performance AI, networking and embedded systems with greater flexibility to optimize bandwidth, power, board space and component availability. Agilex FPGAs deliver flexible, high-performance memory connectivity, supporting DDR5, LPDDR5X, LPDDR5, LPDDR4, DDR4, HBM2, and other advanced memory interfaces. Delivering More Memory Performance Across the Agilex Portfolio Quartus Prime Pro Edition 2026.1.1 enables DDR5-6400 and LPDDR5-6400 support on Agilex7 M-Series devices, delivering higher memory bandwidth for demanding AI, networking, and embedded applications. Together with new LPDDR5 support in Agilex 3 devices and existing DDR5 and LPDDR5 support in Agilex 5 devices, these capabilities help customers optimize performance, power, board space, and long-term component availability across the Agilex portfolio. The release also adds documented LPDDR5X device compatibility in LPDDR5-compatible mode for supported Agilex 5 and Agilex 3 devices. LPDDR5X compatibility gives customers additional qualified memory sourcing options, helping to improve supply chain optionality without requiring hardware redesigns by maintaining compatibility with existing LPDDR5 implementations. "Today's AI and intelligent edge applications demand more memory bandwidth and greater design flexibility," said Mike Fitton, vice president of product and corporate marketing at Altera. "As the only FPGA solutions provider offering DDR5 memory support across its portfolio, Altera gives customers unparalleled flexibility to optimize memory architectures for AI, networking, and embedded applications. By expanding DDR5 support across the Agilex portfolio, we're helping customers accelerate innovation while maximizing performance, power efficiency, and long-term design flexibility." The memory enhancements reflect Altera's continued investment in advancing the Agilex platform long after production release. Through ongoing software, IP and documentation updates, customers can take advantage of new capabilities while preserving their existing hardware investments to achieve: * Higher performance with DDR5 and LPDDR5 support up to 6400 MT/s, delivering up to 204.8 GB/s of aggregate memory bandwidth in supported Agilex 7 M-Series configurations. * Greater design flexibility through broader support for DDR5, LPDDR5 and LPDDR5X-compatible memory devices. * Improved supply resilience through expanded qualified memory options that simplify component sourcing and lifecycle planning. * Investment protection through software and IP upgrades that preserve existing Agilex hardware and Quartus development flows. Availability Available today, Quartus Prime Pro Edition Software version 26.1.1 expands support for DDR5-6400, LPDDR5-6400, and LPDDR5X-compatible devices across the Agilex portfolio. Developers can download the latest Quartus release to take advantage of these new memory capabilities. About Altera Altera is the industry's largest pure-play FPGA solutions provider, with an exclusive focus on delivering FPGA innovations to the broad market. The company provides a comprehensive portfolio of programmable hardware, software, and development tools that empower designers of electronic systems to innovate, differentiate, and execute with greater speed and efficiency. With industry-leading FPGAs, SoCs, and design solutions, Altera enables customers to achieve faster time-to-market, greater flexibility, and optimized performance across a wide range of applications, spanning physical AI, industrial automation, audio/video, robotics, aerospace, defense, data centers, telecommunications, and more. For more information, visit www.altera.com. Jensen Huang believes NVIDIA's chips are becoming much more than expensive pieces of hardware. As... As hybrid cognition deepens, the boundary between biological and artificial embodiment will begin to blur... The Department of Energy today announced a plan to create a new class of open-weight... The MLB trade deadline may have passed, but we're still seeing big moves in the... Prior to the June International Supercomputing Conference, ISC High Performance 2026, in Hamburg, Germany, Sean... Over the past several days, a steady stream of Genesis Mission announcements has arrived from...

Defense Advancement
Jun 12th, 2026
Compute & density boosted for next-generation RF systems.

Compute & density boosted for next-generation RF systems. The engineering sample of Altera's latest wideband SoC FPGAs is now available, delivering a significant forty percent increase in compute capability to power next-generation aerospace and defense RF systems By Abi Wylie / 12 Jun 2026 Altera Corporation has announced the engineering sample availability of its next-generation Agilex 9 Direct RF-Series SoC FPGAs at the International Microwave Symposium. The latest addition to the company's portfolio is designed to meet growing performance, integration, and adaptability demands in aerospace, defense, and advanced communications systems. By delivering a 40% increase in compute capability per square millimeter, the technology allows engineers to process and analyze RF signals closer to the edge while adapting to changing mission requirements within tight size, weight, power, and latency constraints. The architecture integrates high-speed data converters, programmable logic, and processing elements into a single package. Compared to the previous generation, the new device provides 45% greater logic and DSP density alongside support for DDR5 and LPDDR5 memory technologies. Featuring integrated 64Gsps wideband RF with higher compute and memory resources, this programmable solution eliminates the need for multi-chip designs and enables advanced beamforming for radar and data cube processing. The highly integrated platform supports high-bandwidth signal capture and generation, allowing users to scale performance while maintaining long-term design flexibility. Accelerate defense modernization through strategic sourcing. Discover cutting-edge solutions from leading global suppliers SUPPLIER SPOTLIGHT "Across aerospace, defense, and advanced communications, our customers are being asked to handle more data and operate within tighter constraints," said John Sotir, General Manager of Altera's Aerospace, Defense and Government business unit. "With our latest Agilex 9 Direct RF device, we're helping them meet those challenges by bringing together high-performance compute, memory, and RF capabilities into a single, highly integrated platform." Ian Dunn, CTO at Spectrum Control, an Altera board partner, stated, "As RF systems become more complex and bandwidth demands continue to grow, integration and performance at the system level are critical. Altera's newest Agilex 9 Direct RF-Series SoC FPGA enables us to simplify system architectures while delivering the high-performance signal processing our customers require. The combination of integrated RF, compute, and memory helps us accelerate development and bring more capable solutions to market faster."

Microwave Journal
Jun 9th, 2026
Altera introduces next-generation Agilex 9 Direct RF-Series SoC FPGA to power the future of high performance RF systems.

Altera introduces next-generation Agilex 9 Direct RF-Series SoC FPGA to power the future of high performance RF systems. June 9, 2026 At IMS2026, Altera Corporation announced engineering sample availability of its next-generation wideband Agilex(R) 9 Direct RF-Series SoC FPGAs. Designed to meet the growing demands for performance, integration, and adaptability in aerospace, defense, and advanced communications systems, the latest addition to Altera's Direct RF portfolio delivers a 40% increase in compute capability per square millimeter and 45 percent greater logic and DSP density compared to the previous generation. As next-generation RF systems grow more complex, engineers face increasing pressure to process wider bandwidths, respond in real time, and deliver greater capabilities within tight size, weight, power, and latency constraints. Altera's Agilex(R) 9 Direct RF-Series SoC FPGAs address these challenges by enabling developers to process and analyze RF signals closer to the edge while adapting to evolving mission requirements. Related resources. Agilex 9 Direct RF-Series SoC FPGAs deliver a tightly integrated architecture that combines high-speed data converters, programmable logic, and processing elements into a single package. This enables developers building next-generation wideband RF systems to reduce complexity, manage power, and meet real-time performance demands where latency and responsiveness are critical. "Across aerospace, defense, and advanced communications, our customers are being asked to handle more data and operate within tighter constraints," said John Sotir, GM of Altera's Aerospace, Defense and Government business unit. "With our latest Agilex 9 Direct RF device, we're helping them meet those challenges by bringing together high-performance compute, memory, and RF capabilities into a single, highly integrated platform." Building on Altera's proven Direct RF portfolio, the new Agilex(R) 9 device delivers 45 percent greater logic and DSP density compared to the previous generation, along with support for next-generation DDR5 and LPDDR5 memory technologies. With integrated RF, compute, and memory resources, the programmable solution eliminates the need for multi-chip designs while enabling more advanced beamforming for radar and data cube processing. The highly integrated RF platform supports high-bandwidth signal capture and generation, allowing customers to scale performance while maintaining the flexibility to evolve their designs over time. Ian Dunn, CTO at Spectrum Control stated, "As RF systems become more complex and bandwidth demands continue to grow, integration and performance at the system level are critical. Altera's newest Agilex 9 Direct RF-Series SoC FPGA enables us to simplify system architectures while delivering the high-performance signal processing our customers require. The combination of integrated RF, compute, and memory helps us accelerate development and bring more capable solutions to market faster." Availability Engineering samples of the Agilex 9 Direct RF-Series SoC FPGA AGRW039 device are available today, with production silicon and development kits scheduled for availability in Q3 2026. For more information, visit Altera's Agilex 9 Direct RF-Series product page or contact your local Altera representative.

Business Wire
Jun 8th, 2026
Altera unveils Agilex 9 Direct RF-Series SoC FPGA with 40% compute boost for aerospace and defence

Altera Corporation has announced engineering sample availability of its Agilex 9 Direct RF-Series SoC FPGAs, unveiled at the International Microwave Symposium. The devices offer a 40% increase in compute capability per square millimetre and are designed for aerospace, defence and advanced communications systems. The new FPGAs integrate high-speed data converters, programmable logic and processing elements into a single package, delivering 45% greater logic and DSP density than the previous generation. They feature integrated 64Gsps wideband RF and support DDR5 and LPDDR5 memory technologies, eliminating the need for multi-chip designs. Engineering samples are available now, with production silicon and development kits scheduled for Q3 2026. The platform enables developers to process RF signals closer to the edge whilst meeting real-time performance demands.

Nextronics Times
Jun 2nd, 2026
Altera expands Agilex 9 FPGA ecosystem for defense applications.

Altera expands Agilex 9 FPGA ecosystem for defense applications. Altera Corporation, a provider of field-programmable gate array (FPGA) solutions, has announced new collaborations with Mercury Systems (NASDAQ: MRCY) and VadaTech aimed at expanding the ecosystem for its Agilex 9 Direct RF Series FPGAs. The initiative is designed to support the development of next-generation defense platforms through commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) solutions based on open architecture standards. The partnerships focus on combining Altera's Agilex 9 medium-band Direct RF FPGAs with industry-standard platforms, including SOSA-aligned OpenVPX systems. According to the companies, the approach is intended to help defense customers reduce integration complexity, accelerate deployment timelines, and enhance flexibility for software-defined radio frequency (RF) applications. As defense systems increasingly require real-time processing of large volumes of RF data, demand is growing for hardware platforms capable of delivering higher performance while reducing size, weight, power, and cost (SWaP). Altera said its Agilex 9 Direct RF Series FPGAs address these requirements by integrating RF functionality, computing resources, and high-speed transceivers within a single programmable architecture. The company noted that the medium-band Direct RF technology provides a balance of bandwidth, power efficiency, and processing performance suited for a range of defense applications, including adaptive radar systems, cognitive electronic warfare, and secure software-defined communications. Through the expanded ecosystem, customers will have access to field-proven platforms designed to improve interoperability and adaptability while supporting evolving mission requirements. The use of open architectures is also expected to facilitate system integration and reduce development risks for defense contractors and government agencies. Craig Goodwin, Senior Director of Mercury's Mixed Signal line of business, said the integration of medium-band converters into a high-performance FPGA enables significant SWaP advantages for edge-based processing applications. He noted that Altera's hardware and software development tools helped accelerate product evaluation and solution design. According to Goodwin, Mercury selected the Agilex 9 medium-band Direct RF FPGA because of its data conversion capabilities and processing resources, which he said can provide up to a tenfold SWaP advantage compared with alternative FPGA solutions for certain RF applications. VadaTech CEO Saeed Karamooz emphasized the benefits of standards-based VPX solutions, stating that Agilex 9 Direct RF Series FPGAs support seamless integration within larger defense system architectures while helping customers deploy advanced RF capabilities more quickly. John Sotir, General Manager of Altera's Military, Aerospace, and Government business unit, said modern defense platforms must process larger volumes of data across wider bandwidths while maintaining flexibility. He added that the collaborations with Mercury Systems and VadaTech reflect Altera's ongoing efforts to advance Direct RF technology and support more agile, scalable, and software-defined defense systems.