Horizon3.ai is a fast-growing, remote cybersecurity company seeking an AWS Subject Matter Expert to lead our Cloud Attack team and shape our AWS offensive strategy and execution. The ideal candidate will be deeply fluent in AWS security and offensive cloud operations, with strong expertise in AWS security architecture and attacker tradecraft. They will be responsible for researching, developing, and validating AWS offensive capabilities, as well as partnering with Attack Engineering and Product to ensure NodeZero stays aligned with modern cloud attacker tradecraft.
Requirements
- 7+ years in offensive security with deep AWS specialization
- Strong expertise in AWS security architecture and attacker tradecraft
- Ability to chain AWS attack paths end-to-end and explain exploitability and impact clearly
- Familiarity with tooling such as Pacu, ScoutSuite, Prowler, CloudSploit, awscli-based tradecraft, or custom cloud offensive tooling
- Strong Python development skills required, along with the ability to read and modify offensive tooling in Go, C++, C#, or other systems languages
- Strong understanding of cloud platform concepts, APIs, and automation pipelines
- Comfortable with Git and PR workflows; experienced collaborating with engineering teams on productized capabilities
- Working knowledge of CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code patterns, including hands-on familiarity with CloudFormation stacks, Terraform, and CDK, to reason about real customer deployments
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Equity package in the form of stock options
- Health, vision & dental insurance for you and your family
- Flexible vacation policy
- Generous parental leave
- Inclusive team culture
- Growth opportunities
- Innovative culture
- Remote work
