Platform Engineer
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Second Front SystemsCloud infrastructure
Candidates from any of the 27 EU member states are eligible, and you may be located anywhere in the EU.Full-TimeSenior
SalaryThe base salary for this position will fall between €120,000 and €140,000. This role is also eligible for equity awards and discretionary bonuses.
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Job Details
- Languages
- Fluent English
- Experience
- 5+ years of hands-on platform engineering, DevSecOps, cloud infrastructure, SRE, or systems engineering experience in production environments.
- Required Skills
- AWSKubernetesAzureCI/CDTerraformCloudFormation
Requirements
- Have 5+ years of hands-on platform engineering, DevSecOps, cloud infrastructure, SRE, or systems engineering experience in production environments.
- Bring deep fluency with AWS, Azure, GCP, or equivalent cloud platforms operating at scale.
- Have production-grade Kubernetes and container orchestration experience in live systems.
- Have hands-on experience writing and maintaining infrastructure-as-code with Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi.
- Have a track record building, securing, and operating CI/CD pipelines under regulatory or high-assurance compliance requirements.
- Have working knowledge of networking, IAM, SAML/OAuth, APIs, and distributed-systems troubleshooting in production.
- Be fluent in English and able to collaborate asynchronously across distributed engineering teams.
- Hold citizenship in an EU member state and the right to work in the EU.
- Preferred: existing government or NATO security clearance, or eligibility to obtain one.
- Preferred: experience in air-gapped, classified, or other high-assurance environments.
- Preferred: familiarity with EAL/Common Criteria, FedRAMP, GovRAMP, NATO, UK MOD, NIS-2, or CRA.
- Preferred: proficiency in a systems or scripting language such as Go, Python, or Rust.
Responsibilities
- Deploy Game Warden and other Second Front products across AWS, Azure, GCP, and sovereign-cloud infrastructure in European regions.
- Architect landing zones that meet sovereignty, customer-control, and GDPR requirements without single-vendor lock-in.
- Govern Kubernetes, container runtimes, and infrastructure-as-code tooling to support repeatable deployments.
- Drive CI/CD, networking, identity, observability, and security controls against target-environment constraints and threat models.
- Implement technical controls and documentation required for customer accreditation regimes.
- Translate engineering tooling requirements into platform specifications for CI/CD, containerization, and accreditation workflows.
- Work with platform and engineering leads to resolve conflicts between automation, hardening, and operational constraints.
- Sequence platform rollouts and upgrades to minimize disruption while maintaining compliance posture and system hardening.
- Prepare production environments and hand them off to implementation and delivery teams with runbooks and technical evidence.
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