[Hiring] Platform Engineer @Second Front Systems

Role Description

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.
• Establishing secure, repeatable platform patterns that satisfy sovereignty and assurance requirements.
• Building landing zones and reference architectures using infrastructure-as-code and cloud-native tooling.
• Keeping European deployments aligned with global platform patterns while preserving accreditation inheritance across target environments.
• Operating cloud-native infrastructure at production scale.
• Building and maintaining secure CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and observability for regulated and potentially air-gapped environments.
• Producing the technical evidence and documentation needed to support applicable European security, accreditation, and regulatory requirements.
• Preparing production environments and handing them off with complete runbooks and technical evidence.

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.

Requirements

• 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.

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.