Cyber Range Platform Engineer

Horizon3.ai is a fast-growing, remote cybersecurity company focused on enabling organizations to proactively identify and address exploitable attack vectors. The Cyber Range Platform Engineer will lead the deployment and operation of Cyber Range infrastructure, building and maintaining scalable cloud-native and on-premise application platforms while implementing improvements in deployment processes.

Responsibilities:

• Implement highly scalable, secure, resilient cloud-native and on-premise application platforms that host vulnerable applications, configurations, and other services vital to research and development of our product
• Identify, design, and implement improvements in deployment processes so engineers can begin development anytime with confidence
• Design and implement tooling for the internal platform to collect telemetry data used to gauge its effectiveness in supporting H3's engineers
• Help create an effective documentation culture within the Engineering Organization (Confluence, Documentation as code)
• Participate in effective project management and work allocation (Jira, Agile Concepts)
• Create Terraform modules and Ansible playbooks that are extensible across the infrastructure to reliably and effectively deploy vulnerable testing scenarios for engineering development efforts
• Be a positive example of automation for infrastructure-as-code, platform operations, and overall CI/CD methodologies
• Evaluate new technologies and patterns for automation, application hosting, and improving infrastructure provisioning. Recommend and define the work needed

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform engineering, or related roles
• 2+ years of experience in Systems and Network administration
• Ability to manage concurrent initiatives and use effective judgment in prioritization and time management
• Creative, self-motivated, pragmatic, disciplined, detail and results oriented
• Excellent analytical/problem solving ability
• Strong understanding and experience with solution design and flow
• Strong technical documentation and communication
• Implement highly scalable, secure, resilient cloud-native and on-premise application platforms that host vulnerable applications, configurations, and other services vital to research and development of our product
• Identify, design, and implement improvements in deployment processes so engineers can begin development anytime with confidence
• Design and implement tooling for the internal platform to collect telemetry data used to gauge its effectiveness in supporting H3's engineers
• Help create an effective documentation culture within the Engineering Organization (Confluence, Documentation as code)
• Participate in effective project management and work allocation (Jira, Agile Concepts)
• Create Terraform modules and Ansible playbooks that are extensible across the infrastructure to reliably and effectively deploy vulnerable testing scenarios for engineering development efforts
• Be a positive example of automation for infrastructure-as-code, platform operations, and overall CI/CD methodologies
• Evaluate new technologies and patterns for automation, application hosting, and improving infrastructure provisioning. Recommend and define the work needed
• Tools (5+ years with each is ideal): Gitlab CI/CD, SSO (OIDC, SAML, Okta, Social Sign-ins), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormations), Secret Management (HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secret Manager, External Secrets Operator), Configuration Management (Ansible), Shell Scripting Image Building (Packer, QEMU), Programming Languages (Python, Powershell), Container Engines (Docker), Kubernetes (RKE2, K3S, EKS), Logging and Metrics (Datadog, OpenSearch)
• On-Premise Technologies: VMware vCenter Server/vSAN, Dell Network Switches, Fortinet Network Security Devices
• Cloud Technologies: AWS/Azure Core Services (Compute, Storage, Database, Networking, Event-Driven Architecture, Security, User Management, Hybrid Domains)
• Education: Bachelors in Computer Science or STEM or equivalent experience
• MS in Computer Science a plus
• Experience in Offensive or Defensive cyber security roles and/or certifications