Cyber Range Platform Engineer

Cyber Range Platform Engineer 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. Summary/Overview We are looking for a Platform Engineer to help lead the deployment and operation of our Cyber Range infrastructure. Your goal will be to help build, maintain and improve our infrastructure running in on-premise and cloud environments. Your expertise in cloud infrastructure, kubernetes, VMware vCenter, and tools like Terraform, Ansible, Packer and GitLab CI will be essential in creating scalable and resilient real-world like scenarios that enable innovative experimentation. Join us in shaping the future of our Cyber Range infrastructure, driving growth and empowering developers with a flexible and efficient environment. Essential Functions - 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. Competencies - 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 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) ... (truncated, view full listing at source)