Platform Engineer

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🇪🇺 Europe – Remote

💵 €120k - €140k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🏗️ Platform Engineer

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Second Front Systems

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51 - 200 employees

☁️ SaaS

🎖️ Defense

🏛️ Government

SaaS • Defense • Government

Second Front Systems is a public-benefit, venture-backed company that provides mission-critical software solutions primarily to democracies around the world. Their product suite, which includes the 2F Suite, 2F Workshop, 2F Game Warden, and 2F Frontier, simplifies and accelerates the software development and delivery process. The company is trusted by leading software providers and government agencies for its secure DevSecOps solutions, enabling secure software deployment on classified and unclassified networks. Their offerings include tools for secure development, software accreditation, government cloud hosting, and edge deployment, particularly focused on supporting government and defense sectors. Second Front Systems collaborates with partners to make emerging technologies more accessible, accelerating the accreditation and compliance processes and offering solutions that can operate in remote or disconnected environments, such as drones and vehicles.

📋 Description

• Deploy Game Warden and other Second Front products across AWS, Azure, GCP, and sovereign-cloud infrastructure in European regions • Architect landing zones satisfying sovereignty, customer-control, and GDPR requirements without single-vendor lock-in • Govern Kubernetes, container runtimes, and infrastructure-as-code tooling to enforce repeatability • Drive CI/CD, networking, identity, observability, and security controls against 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 • Resolve conflicts between automation, hardening, and operational constraints with platform and engineering leads • Sequence platform rollouts and upgrades to minimize disruption while maintaining compliance and system hardening • Prepare production environments and hand them off with complete runbooks and technical evidence • Operate as the bridge between platform architecture and customer deployment

🎯 Requirements

• 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 ability to collaborate asynchronously across distributed global engineering teams • EU citizenship from any of the 27 EU member states • Right to work in the European Union • Based in the EU • Preferred: Existing government or NATO security clearance, or eligibility to obtain one • Preferred: Experience operating in air-gapped, classified, or other high-assurance environments • Preferred: Familiarity with EAL/Common Criteria, FedRAMP, GovRAMP, NATO, UK MOD, NIS-2, or CRA accreditation processes • Preferred: Proficiency in Go, Python, or Rust for building internal tooling

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity awards • Discretionary bonuses • Broader total rewards package • Great Place to Work® certified company