Solutions Engineer

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Second Front SystemsDefense technology
Candidates must ... be based in the EU (Remote).Full-TimeMiddle
SalaryThe base salary for this position will fall between €110,000 and €130,000.
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Job Details

Languages
Fluent English; fluency in an additional European language relevant to a priority EMEA market preferred.
Experience
3+ years in a technical customer-facing role; at least 2 years of hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Required Skills
AWSAzureCI/CDRESTful APIsNetworking

Requirements

  • Have 3+ years in a technical customer-facing role such as solutions engineering, sales engineering, solutions architecture, or technical pre-sales.
  • Have at least 2 years of hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
  • Have strong cloud infrastructure knowledge.
  • Have hands-on familiarity with containers, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, networking, IAM, and APIs.
  • Be able to use scripting or software development to troubleshoot integrations, applications, and cloud environments.
  • Be able to develop credible technical designs without making unsupported bespoke commitments.
  • Be able to troubleshoot technical issues across application and infrastructure layers during evaluations.
  • Have strong written and verbal technical communication skills for working with engineers, security teams, architects, procurement stakeholders, and government customers.
  • Be fluent in English.
  • Hold existing work authorization and residency in the EU country of employment.
  • Be willing to travel across EMEA.
  • Experience in defense, govtech, regulated industries, sovereign cloud, GovCloud, or classified/accredited environments is preferred.
  • Familiarity with government or allied accreditation frameworks and relevant AWS, Azure, or GCP certifications is preferred.

Responsibilities

  • Own technical discovery and qualification for EMEA opportunities, assessing application, infrastructure, security, integration, and deployment fit.
  • Develop proposed architectures covering cloud, networking, identity, integrations, data residency, sovereignty, and security.
  • Deliver demonstrations, run proofs of value, and facilitate approved non-production evaluations.
  • Identify technical blockers, dependencies, product gaps, and delivery assumptions, coordinating with Platform Engineering on feasibility and effort.
  • Support technical RFI/RFP, security, partner, and architecture responses, and represent Second Front at customer workshops and technical events.
  • Build reusable demos, reference architectures, and discovery materials, and maintain technical notes on active opportunities.
  • Feed recurring field requirements back to Product and Engineering and deliver technical handoffs to implementation and delivery teams.
  • Partner with the commercial team and Head of EMEA through qualification, proposal, and procurement, supporting technical negotiations.
  • Translate customer accreditation and security requirements into deployment schedules and work with Platform Engineering to resolve timeline conflicts.
  • Align engineering roadmap priorities with regional customer needs and accreditation windows, and broker resolution of technical feasibility and resource-allocation conflicts.
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The base salary for this position will fall between €110,000 and €130,000.
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