Platform Engineer — Regulated Cloud & Compliance (EU, Remote)

Second Front Systems, Inc.; Washington (District of Columbia); Remote; USD 134,000 - 157,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity awards

Discretionary bonuses

Remote work

Job summary

Second Front Systems is seeking an infrastructure-focused Platform Engineer to strengthen our Platform Engineering function for European regulated environments. You will deploy, operate, and maintain Game Warden across EU cloud environments, building secure, auditable patterns and runbooks for accreditation and sovereignty.

Based in the EU, remote, with citizenship requirements, you will lead IaC, CI/CD, and security controls to meet GDPR, EAL, and GovRAMP-like standards while collaborating

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Platform engineering

Cloud infrastructure

DevSecOps

SRE

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Networking

IAM

English fluency

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Pulumi

Job description

Second Front Systems is seeking an infrastructure-focused Platform Engineer to strengthen our Platform Engineering function for European regulated environments. You will deploy, operate, and maintain Game Warden across EU cloud environments, building secure, auditable patterns and runbooks for accreditation and sovereignty.

Based in the EU, remote, with citizenship requirements, you will lead IaC, CI/CD, and security controls to meet GDPR, EAL, and GovRAMP-like standards while collaborating