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Salary: EUR 120,000 - 140,000 / annual
Second Front Systems is a venture-backed defense technology company helping commercial software companies deliver mission-critical technology to U.S. and allied government users faster. The company holds FedRAMP High, DoD IL2–IL6/JWICS, GovRAMP, UK MOD, and NATO authorizations.
You will serve as a Platform Engineer focused on infrastructure and compliance, responsible for deploying, operating, and maintaining Second Front's Game Warden platform across EMEA cloud environments. This role bridges systems engineering, tooling, and operational discipline to enable secure, repeatable software delivery for government and allied users.
Key responsibilities include:
- Deploy Game Warden and other Second Front products across AWS, Azure, GCP, and sovereign-cloud infrastructure in European regions to specification
- Architect landing zones that satisfy sovereignty, customer-control, and GDPR requirements without vendor lock-in
- Govern Kubernetes, container runtimes, and infrastructure-as-code tooling to enforce repeatability across deployments
- Drive CI/CD, networking, identity, observability, and security controls aligned with target-environment constraints and threat models
- Implement technical controls and documentation required for EAL, FedRAMP, GovRAMP, NATO, UK MOD, or equivalent accreditation regimes
- Translate engineering tooling requirements into platform specifications ensuring CI/CD, containerization, and accreditation workflows meet delivery timelines
- Collaborate with platform and engineering leads to resolve conflicts between automation, hardening, and operational constraints
- Sequence platform rollouts and upgrades to minimize disruption while maintaining compliance posture and system hardening
You will work asynchronously across distributed global engineering teams, serving as the operational bridge between platform architecture and customer deployment, preparing production environments with complete runbooks and technical evidence.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 5+ years hands-on platform engineering, DevSecOps, cloud infrastructure, SRE, or systems engineering experience in production environments
- Deep fluency with AWS, Azure, GCP, or equivalent cloud platforms at scale
- Production-grade Kubernetes and container orchestration experience in live systems
- Hands-on experience writing and maintaining infrastructure-as-code with Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi
- Track record building, securing, and operating CI/CD pipelines under regulatory or high-assurance compliance requirements
- Working knowledge of networking, IAM, SAML/OAuth, APIs, and distributed-systems troubleshooting in production
- Fluent English and proven ability to collaborate asynchronously across distributed teams
- EU citizenship (any of the 27 EU member states) and right to work in the EU
PREFERRED:
- Existing government or NATO security clearance, or eligibility to obtain one
- Experience operating in air-gapped, classified, or other high-assurance environments
- Familiarity with EAL/Common Criteria, FedRAMP, GovRAMP, NATO, or UK MOD accreditation processes; or NIS-2, CRA frameworks
- Proficiency in systems or scripting language (Go, Python, Rust) for building internal tooling
