Transforming the Future with the Convergence of Simulation and Data

Senior Network Security Specialist

Altair India’s IT Systems (ITS) team is currently seeking highly talented and motivated individual for the position of Networking Specialist.

A successful candidate will be engaged in the design, development, deployment and support for Altair India’s networking and security infrastructure. This person will be confident working in a multi-vendor environment and will participate as a member of a dynamic and global team.

The ITS Team supports Altair’s various commercial software development organizations, product design consulting, sales, support and administrative teams. Altair’s network consists of Windows and Mac desktops, physical and highly virtualized Linux and Windows Server environments as well as many high-performance-computing (HPC) clusters.

Each individual on the Altair ITS Team plays a key role in providing a secure, efficient and effective environment for all of our end-users, facilitating everyone’s productivity and innovation. All ITS team members regularly interact with senior management (VP and C-level) in order to gather requirements and feedback on about our infrastructure.

A place on the ITS Team allows for great visibility and career advancement throughout Altair's global organization.

Summary: A challenging opportunity to extend, manage and monitor Altair India’s network and security infrastructure.

Essential Job Functions:

• Grow and maintain our world-wide Mesh VPN, using both physical and virtual firewall appliances
• Improve site-to-site and internal security
• Customize, enhance and monitor WAN acceleration across our global network
• Migration/Implementation of IPv6
• Network management of several dozen switches (multi-vendor), related tools and management components
• Further automation in the areas of network log aggregation, flow reporting, and change deployment

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field
• 5+ years experience in network management:

Client-to-site and site-to-site VPN

Intrusion protection and prevention

IPv4 and IPv6 networking

WAN acceleration

• As Altair has a multi-vendor environment, Altair will provide vendor and internal training specific to our implementation

Desired Skills/Experience:

• Strong network implementation and management
• Proven ability to research, learn and apply new technologies
• Strong team player and ability to interact effectively in a culturally diverse and global organization

How You Will Be Successful:

• Envision the Future
• Communicate Honestly and Broadly 
• Seek Technology and Business “Firsts” 
• Embrace Diversity and Take Risks 

Why Work With Us:

Altair is a global technology company providing software and cloud solutions in the areas of product development, high performance computing (HPC) and data analytics. Altair enables organizations in nearly every industry to compete more effectively in a connected world, while creating a more sustainable future. With more than 3,000 engineers, scientists and creative thinkers in 25 countries, we help solve our customer’s toughest challenges and deliver unparalleled service, helping the innovators innovate, drive better decisions, and turn today’s problems into tomorrow’s opportunities.

 

For more than 30 years, we have been helping our customers integrate electronics and controls with mechanical design to expand product value, develop AI, simulation and data-driven digital twins to drive better decisions, and deliver advanced HPC and cloud solutions to support unlimited idea exploration.

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