Federal Cloud Security Engineering Lead

Horizon3; United States; Hybrid; USD 176,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Inclusive Team

Growth Opportunities

Hybrid & Remote Work

Job summary

Horizon3.ai is expanding its security leadership for Federal/DoD-coupled environments. As Federal Security Engineering Manager, you will build and lead a team focused on FedRAMP and IL4/IL5 compliance, cloud security, detection, and response across federal boundaries.

You will recruit, develop, and guide engineers, define standards, and partner with leadership to ensure secure cloud architecture, governance, and incident management for federal workloads.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, or related field or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of cybersecurity experience, including 5+ years cloud security (AWS strongly preferred).
• 3+ years of experience leading security engineers and hiring/developing talent.
• Experience building and scaling a security engineering team.
• Knowledge of FedRAMP High and DoD IL4/IL5 requirements shaping cloud architecture, logging, and incident response.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead the Federal Security Engineering Team for FedRAMP and IL4/IL5 environments.
• Lead Federal Cloud Security Engineering: set direction for identity management, network segmentation, encryption, logging, and automation.
• Lead Federal Detection and Response: SIEM, log aggregation, detection content, and incident response within federal boundaries.
• Communicate, measure, and manage: define metrics, budgets, tooling strategy, and compliance with standards (NIST 800-53/800-171, FedRAMP, DoD SRG).
• Collaborate with Engineering to embed security into SDLC and CI/CD for federal workloads.

Skills

FedRAMP IL4/IL5 understanding

Cloud security leadership

DoD IL4/IL5 knowledge

Team building

Communication with government

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Cybersecurity

Tools

AWS GovCloud

Kubernetes security

Crossplane

GitLab / ArgoCD

ELK Stack

MITRE ATT&CK

SIEM / SOC concepts

Job description

Horizon3.ai is expanding its security leadership for Federal/DoD-coupled environments. As Federal Security Engineering Manager, you will build and lead a team focused on FedRAMP and IL4/IL5 compliance, cloud security, detection, and response across federal boundaries.

You will recruit, develop, and guide engineers, define standards, and partner with leadership to ensure secure cloud architecture, governance, and incident management for federal workloads.