Federal Security Engineering Manager

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $175.9k - $230k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🔴 Lead

👮‍♀️ Software Engineering Manager

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Horizon3.ai

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2019

🔒 Cybersecurity

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

☁️ SaaS

Cybersecurity • Artificial Intelligence • SaaS

Horizon3. ai is a cybersecurity company that specializes in autonomous penetration testing through its platform, NodeZero. The company's mission is to proactively identify and address attack vectors before they can be exploited, allowing organizations to continuously assess their security posture across various environments including cloud, IoT, and on-premises systems. Founded by veterans from the US Special Operations and National Security sectors, Horizon3. ai offers a self-service SaaS solution that provides organizations with insights into their security vulnerabilities without requiring persistent or credentialed agents.

📋 Description

• Recruit, hire, onboard, lead, coach, and develop a federal security engineering team • Define hiring roadmaps, role profiles, interview loops, and team sequencing • Set priorities and operating rhythms across strategic investments, engineering support, and incident response • Set technical direction for securing federal cloud environments, including IAM, network segmentation, encryption, key management, hardening, and logging • Ensure controls meet FedRAMP and DoD Cloud Computing SRG requirements and are automated through Infrastructure as Code and policy-as-code • Review and approve architecture decisions, threat models, and risk assessments • Partner with Engineering to embed security into SDLC and CI/CD pipelines • Define SIEM, log aggregation, detection, audit logging, and retention strategy • Build the federal SOC operating model, including on-call, escalation paths, and documentation • Drive SOAR and AI/ML-assisted triage, investigation, and response automation • Direct detection content and threat hunting aligned to MITRE ATT&CK • Lead security incident response, including escalation, cross-team coordination, post-incident review, and customer/government reporting • Define team metrics and report posture, risk, and priorities to leadership and federal stakeholders • Own budget, tooling strategy, and vendor relationships • Maintain security standards, SOPs, and engineering practices aligned to NIST, FedRAMP, DoD SRG, CIS, and MITRE ATT&CK • Evaluate tools, techniques, and controls and stay current on threats and federal security requirements

🎯 Requirements

• U.S. citizenship • Ability to meet DoD personnel security requirements for IL4/IL5 environments • Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance • 8+ years of experience in cybersecurity, including 5+ years in cloud security • 3+ years of experience managing or technically leading security engineers • Experience building and scaling a security engineering team • Working knowledge of FedRAMP High and DoD IL4/IL5 requirements • Strong technical foundation in cloud security architecture, IAM, encryption and key management, network security, secure SDLC, and Infrastructure as Code • Familiarity with SIEM, detection engineering, SOC operating models, incident response, and automation • Excellent written and verbal communication • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience • AWS strongly preferred • Preferred experience with SaaS products entering the federal market, FedRAMP or DoD IL4/IL5 environments, incident management, detection engineering, logs/events processing, and SOC build-out • Preferred certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CCSP, AWS Certified Security – Specialty, GCIH/GCIA, or similar • Technology experience with AWS GovCloud, Kubernetes, container security, Crossplane, GitLab, ArgoCD, ELK Stack, AWS GuardDuty, Sigma, YARA, MITRE ATT&CK, EDR/XDR, STIG/SCAP, CIS benchmarks, and cloud posture management • Up to 5% travel may be required

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity package in the form of stock options for all full-time roles • Health, vision & dental insurance for you and your family • Flexible vacation policy • Generous parental leave • Career development opportunities • Remote and hybrid work models depending on role and location • Inclusive culture • Collaborative and innovative work environment • Up to 5% job-related travel expenses, subject to manager approval

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