Platform Engineer
Deploys, operates, and maintains Second Front's Game Warden platform across European cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP, sovereign clouds), building IaC landing zones, secure CI/CD, and Kubernetes operations, plus the compliance/accreditation documentation for EU regulated environments. Full-time remote within the EU; EU citizenship required.
- Compensation
- €120K–€140K / yr
- Location
- Remote
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Devops
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 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
- 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 global engineering teams
- EU citizenship (any of the 27 EU member states) and the right to work in the EU, based in the EU
Nice to have
- 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 frameworks such as NIS-2, CRA
- Proficiency in a systems or scripting language (e.g., Go, Python, or Rust) for building internal tooling
Full 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 Founded by Marines who saw firsthand how outdated government acquisition systems held back frontline personnel, we help commercial software companies get mission-critical technology into the hands of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.