Federal Senior Cloud Security Engineer

About this role

Get to Know Us
Horizon3.ai is a fast-growing, remote cybersecurity company dedicated to the mission of enabling organizations to proactively find and fix and verify exploitable attack vectors before criminals exploit them. Our flagship product, the NodeZeroTM platform, delivers production-safe autonomous pentests and other key assessment operations that scale across the largest internal, external, cloud, and hybrid cloud environments. NodeZero has been adopted by organizations of all sizes, from small educational institutions to government agencies and Global 100 enterprises. It is used by ITOps/SecOps teams, consulting pentesters, and MSSPs and MSPs.


We are a fusion of former U.S. Special Operations cyber operators, startup engineers, and formerly frustrated cybersecurity practitioners. We're committed to helping solve our common security problems: ineffective security tools, false positives resulting in alert fatigue, blind spots, "checkbox” security culture, cybersecurity skills shortage, and the long lead time and expense of hiring outside consultants. Collectively, we are a team of learn it alls, committed to a culture of respect, collaboration, ownership, and results.


About The Role
The Sr. Cloud Security Engineer, Federal performs the tasks necessary to analyze, design, configure, implement, and validate security solutions for H3’s AWS GovCloud infrastructure. This role serves as a technical leader and "self-starter," working closely with the Director of Federal Operations, Security Operations Manager, and engineering teams to ensure a secure and compliant cloud architecture. Tasks will consist of developing security guardrails, automating threat detection, and managing the end-to-end security lifecycle within the CI/CD pipeline. This position prioritizes Federal AWS environments and compliance (FedRAMP, IL-4/5) while providing subject matter expertise and support for commercial cloud security as the Federal Team grows.


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