Principal Network Security Engineer

About the role

This principal-level individual contributor serves as Altera’s senior technical authority for network security architecture and engineering. The role defines scalable security patterns, guides complex designs, and provides hands-on expertise to strengthen the resilience, integrity, and protection of Altera’s global infrastructure and data.

What you'll do

• Serve as the senior technical authority for complex network security decisions, design exceptions, and modernization initiatives
• Drive adoption of Zero Trust, least-privilege access, micro-segmentation, and secure-by-design network principles
• Architect and review secure designs for data center, campus, laboratory, cloud, WAN, remote-access, and hybrid environments
• Evaluate and guide adoption of ZTNA, SWG, SASE, SD-WAN, NDR, IDS/IPS, firewall, and network-security automation capabilities
• Partner with network, cloud, platform, product security, and operations teams to translate security requirements into implementable designs

What you need

• 8–14 yrs of experience
• Network security
• Incident response
• SIEM
• Firewalls
• Python
• Root cause analysis
• Any graduate

Good to have

• TCP/IP
• Routing and switching
• AWS
• Azure
• Terraform
• Cloud security