Altera
Security Operations Center Lead
San Jose, California, United States · Senior
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Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~61% per draw at Level IV). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
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$1,118 more — $150,218 — moves this role to Level II and 2 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $150,218 would place this position at wage Level II. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Information Security Analysts" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Information Security Analysts (15-1212) · San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- Establish SOC 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 SOC 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.
Responsibilities
- Lead daily SOC operations across monitoring, alert triage, investigation, escalation, incident response coordination, and operational handoff across global time zones.
- Own and mature SOC 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.
- 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.
- 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 SOC processes are documented, repeatable, measurable, and evidence-ready.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Security, Cybersecurity, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of progressive cybersecurity experience, including significant hands-on experience in security operations, incident response, threat detection, or SOC leadership.
- 3+ years of experience leading SOC analysts, incident response teams, managed security operations, or cross-functional cyber defense workflows.
- Strong working knowledge of SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, cloud security monitoring, identity security, email security, network security, and incident response processes.
- Experience coordinating investigations involving phishing, malware, endpoint compromise, suspicious authentication, privileged access misuse, data exposure, and cloud security events.
- Familiarity with frameworks and standards such as MITRE ATT&CK, NIST CSF, NIST SP 800-61, ISO 27001, CIS Controls, or equivalent cyber defense frameworks.
- We use artificial intelligence to screen, assess, or select applicants for the position. Applicants must be eligible for any required U.S. export authorizations.
- Applicants must be eligible for any required U.S. export authorizations.
- Demonstrated experience building or improving detection use cases, alert triage workflows, response playbooks, escalation procedures, and SOC metrics.
- 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 equivalent industry certification.
Nice to have
- Experience operating or transforming a global SOC in an enterprise environment.
- Experience working as an Incident Commander, leading IR execution for the company.
- Experience working with Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender XDR, KQLs, UEBA, or comparable security operations platforms.
- Experience with threat hunting, purple-team collaboration, adversary emulation, or detection engineering.
- Experience managing managed detection and response providers or outsourced SOC services.
- Experience in semiconductor, technology, manufacturing, or intellectual property-intensive environments.
- Familiarity with GenAI-assisted SOC workflows, including alert enrichment, analyst productivity, incident summarization, and security automation.
- Additional certifications such as CEH, or similar.
Skills
- Improved detection coverage across high-risk assets, identity systems, cloud services, endpoints, and enterprise applications.
- Strong partnership across IT, security engineering, cloud, identity, legal, privacy, product security, and managed service providers.
- Actual salary may vary based on a number of factors including job location, job-related knowledge, skills, experiences, trainings, etc.
Compensation
- The pay range below is for Bay Area California only.
- Actual salary may vary based on a number of factors including job location, job-related knowledge, skills, experiences, trainings, etc.
- We also offer incentive opportunities that reward employees based on individual and company performance.
- $149,100 - $215,925 USD
Benefits
- Partner with security engineering teams to improve log onboarding, data quality, telemetry coverage, alert fidelity, automation, and response integrations.
- Serve as a security operations lead for global SOC coverage and cross-functional collaboration.
This listing is sourced directly from Altera's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.