Security Operations Center Lead

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About the Role Altera is seeking an experienced and hands-on Security Operations Center Lead to lead and mature our global security monitoring, detection, incident response, and cyber defense capabilities. This role will be responsible for day-to-day SOC operations, alert triage, incident escalation, use case development, playbook execution, threat monitoring, and operational reporting across enterprise IT, cloud, identity, endpoint, network, and application environments.

This leader will partner closely with security engineering, infrastructure, identity, cloud, IT operations, legal, privacy, product security, and managed service providers to ensure security events are detected, investigated, contained, and remediated effectively. The ideal candidate combines strong technical security operations depth with leadership discipline, process ownership, and the ability to drive measurable improvements in detection coverage, response quality, automation, and operational resilience.

• 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.
• 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 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.
• 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.
• Serve as a security operations lead for global SOC coverage and cross-functional collaboration.

• Improved detection coverage across high-risk assets, identity systems, cloud services, endpoints, and enterprise applications.
• Reduced false positives and improved alert quality through tuning, enrichment, and automation.
• Faster and more consistent incident triage, containment, escalation, and closure.
• Clear SOC operating model with documented playbooks, SLAs, handoff processes, and executive-ready reporting.
• Improved incident readiness through exercises, retrospectives, and continuous improvement.
• Strong partnership across…