Platform Engineer

Second Front Systems; Washington (District of Columbia); Remote; USD 135,000 - 157,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity rewards

Discretionary bonuses

Job summary

Second Front Systems seeks an infrastructure-focused Platform Engineer to strengthen Platform Engineering across European regulated environments. You will deploy, operate, and maintain Game Warden in EU cloud regions, building secure, repeatable patterns while preserving accreditation inheritance.

The role requires EU citizenship, production-scale cloud experience, and strong IaC/CI/CD capabilities to meet sovereignty and regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on platform engineering, DevSecOps, cloud infra, SRE, or similar.
• Fluent with AWS, Azure, GCP or equivalent at scale.
• Production-grade Kubernetes in live systems.
• Hands-on with infrastructure-as-code: Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi.
• Track record building and operating CI/CD pipelines under high‑assurance regimes.
• Knowledge of networking, IAM, SAML/OAuth, APIs, and distributed systems troubleshooting.
• Fluent English and ability to collaborate asynchronously across distributed teams.
• EU citizenship and right to work in the EU.

Responsibilities

• Deploy Game Warden and other Second Front products across AWS, Azure, GCP, and sovereign-cloud infra in Europe.
• Architect landing zones satisfying sovereignty, control, and GDPR requirements without vendor lock-in.
• Govern Kubernetes and IaC tooling to enforce repeatability across deployments.
• Drive CI/CD, networking, identity, observability, and security controls for target environments.
• Implement controls and documentation for EAL, FedRAMP, GovRAMP, NATO, UK MOD, or equivalents.
• Translate tooling needs into platform specs ensuring CI/CD and accreditation workflows meet delivery windows.
• Collaborate with platform and engineering leads to balance automation, hardening, and constraints.
• Sequence platform rollouts to minimize disruption while maintaining compliance.

Skills

Platform engineering

Cloud security

Kubernetes

Infrastructure as code

CI/CD

Networking/IAM

English fluency

EU citizenship

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Terraform

CloudFormation

Pulumi

Kubernetes tooling

Job description

About Second Front Systems

Second Front is a venture-backed company on a mission to strengthen global security by accelerating access to emerging technologies for the U.S. and our allies. Founded by Marines who saw firsthand how outdated government acquisition systems held back frontline personnel, we help commercial software companies get mission-critical technology into the hands of government users faster — backed by FedRAMP High, DoD IL2–IL6/JWICS, GovRAMP, UK MOD, and NATO authorizations. Our team is mission-obsessed, collaborative, and decisive, and we’re proud to be Great Place to Work certified.

About the Role

Second Front Systems is looking for an infrastructure-focused, compliance-minded, operationally disciplined Platform Engineer to strengthen our Platform Engineering function across European regulated environments.

This role sits at the intersection of systems, tooling, and engineering — translating infrastructure reliability and deployment velocity into warfighter-ready software delivery. You’ll be responsible for deploying, operating, and maintaining Game Warden across EMEA cloud environments while establishing secure, repeatable platform patterns that satisfy sovereignty and assurance requirements.

You’ll build landing zones and reference architectures using infrastructure-as-code and cloud-native tooling, keeping European deployments aligned with our global platform patterns while preserving accreditation inheritance across target environments. We need someone who can operate cloud-native infrastructure at production scale; build and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and observability for regulated and potentially air-gapped environments; and produce the technical evidence and documentation needed to support applicable European security, accreditation, and regulatory requirements. As a key partner to our implementation and delivery teams, you’ll prepare production environments and hand them off with complete runbooks and technical evidence — serving as the operational bridge between platform architecture and customer deployment.

Work authorization & location: Candidates must hold citizenship in an EU member state, along with the right to work in the European Union, and be based in the EU (Remote). Unlike some of our other EU-based roles, this position requires citizenship rather than residency alone, given the security clearance and accreditation requirements tied to the systems this role supports. Candidates from any of the 27 EU member states are eligible, and you may be located anywhere in the EU.

Employment type & schedule: This is a full-time, remote position based in the EU, with compensation stated in EUR.

What You’ll Do

• 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 single-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 against target-environment constraints and threat models.

• Implement the technical controls and documentation required for EAL, FedRAMP, GovRAMP, NATO, UK MOD, or equivalent customer accreditation regimes.

• Translate engineering tooling requirements into platform specifications, ensuring CI/CD, containerization, and accreditation workflows meet time-sensitive delivery windows.

• Work with platform and engineering leads to resolve conflicts between automation, hardening, and operational constraints.

• Sequence platform rollouts and upgrades to minimize disruption to active development while maintaining compliance posture and system hardening.

What You Bring

• 5+ years of 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 operating 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.

• A 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 a proven ability to collaborate asynchronously across distributed global engineering teams.

• EU citizenship (any of the 27 EU member states) and the right to work in the EU.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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; and/or familiarity with other frameworks such as NIS-2, CRA, etc.

• Proficiency in a systems or scripting language (e.g., Go, Python, or Rust) for building internal tooling.

Compensation & Benefits

The base salary for this position will fall between €120,000 and €140,000. Your ultimate compensation will be determined by professional background, technical proficiency, seniority, and regional cost factors. This role is also eligible for equity awards and discretionary bonuses as part of a broader total rewards package.

Equal Opportunity

Second Front Systems is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, except where a specific nationality or citizenship requirement is a genuine and determining condition of the role, as is the case with the EU citizenship requirement above.