# Principal Network Security Engineer

Job Details: Job Description: 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. Department Description Altera’s Information 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 Principal Network Security Engineer/Architect, you will shape, design, and improve the security of Altera’s on-premises, cloud, and hybrid network environments. You will operate as a hands-on technical lead and trusted advisor, influencing engineering teams through architecture, standards, technical decisions, and mentorship without direct people-management responsibility. Technical Strategy & Archite

- **Id**: 786959
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/altera-principal-network-security-engineer-2>
- **Role**: Security
- **Role family**: Security
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Bengaluru, India, George Town, Malaysia
- **Countries**: IN, MY
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-11T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T18:13:44Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 57
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7419
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Network Security, Processors, MCUs & AI Chips

## Company

- **Id**: 5328
- **Name**: Altera
- **Domain**: altera.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/altera>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 86
- **Open postings**: 17
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.471
- **Repost share**: 0.118
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 53
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 24000
- **Max usd**: 63000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: global_role_cell_scaled_by_country
- **Sample n**: 753

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **BGP** — Optional: no
- **DNS** — Optional: no
- **Least Privilege** — Optional: no
- **NIST CSF** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **SIEM** — Optional: no
- **TCP/IP** — Optional: no
- **VPN** — Optional: no
- **Zero Trust** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 57

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Malaysia** — Iso: MY; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-12T02:13:34Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 37
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.839
- **P room**: 0.44
- **Age days**: 57
- **Expected fill days**: 53
- **Reasons**: conf:10, velocity, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

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