# Senior Cloud Security Engineer

Job Details: Job Description: Position Overview The Senior Cloud Security Engineer is a hands-on technical lead responsible for designing, implementing, and improving security across the organization’s Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments. This role partners with cloud platform, infrastructure, application, identity, and security operations teams to build secure cloud foundations, protect workloads and data, and make security controls repeatable through automation. The ideal candidate combines deep practical knowledge of Azure and AWS security services with strong skills in cloud architecture, identity and access management, network security, detection and response, and infrastructure as code. Experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is a plus. Key Responsibilities Cloud Security Architecture and Engineering · Design and implement secure architectures for Azure and AWS environments, including landing zones, accounts and subscriptions, networking, shared services, and workload environments. · Establish cloud security reference architectures, patterns, guardrails, and configuration standards that support secure, reliable, and scalable services. · Review

- **Id**: 3953323
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/altera-senior-cloud-security-engineer>
- **Role**: Security
- **Role family**: Security
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Jose, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-08T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-08
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T05:53:40Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 10087
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Cloud Security, Processors, MCUs & AI Chips, EDA Software

## 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**: 88
- **Open postings**: 17
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.412
- **Repost share**: 0.118
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 53
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 149100
- **Max**: 215925
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 215925

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **Amazon EKS** — Optional: yes
- **Azure AKS** — Optional: yes
- **Bicep** — Optional: yes
- **Checkov** — Optional: yes
- **CI/CD** — Optional: yes
- **CIS Benchmarks** — Optional: yes
- **CloudFormation** — Optional: yes
- **Defense in Depth** — Optional: yes
- **DNS** — Optional: yes
- **IAM** — Optional: yes
- **ISO 27001** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes
- **Least Privilege** — Optional: yes
- **Microsoft Defender** — Optional: yes
- **Microsoft Defender for Cloud** — Optional: yes
- **Microsoft Entra ID** — Optional: yes
- **Microsoft Sentinel** — Optional: yes
- **NIST CSF** — Optional: yes
- **Open Policy Agent** — Optional: yes
- **PCI DSS** — Optional: yes
- **PowerShell** — Optional: yes
- **Python** — Optional: yes
- **SOC 2** — Optional: yes
- **Terraform** — Optional: yes
- **Threat Modeling** — Optional: yes
- **Zero Trust** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T05:53:40Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 71; Filings 12m: 71

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 53
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 215925
- **Is top pay**: yes

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