Second-Front-Systems - Platform Engineer
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. • 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. • 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.
Responsibilities
• Deploy Game Warden and other Second Front products across AWS, Azure, GCP, and sovereign-cloud infrastructure in European regions, to specification. • Architect landing zones that satisfy sovereignty, customer-control, and GDPR requirements without single-vendor lock-in. • Govern Kubernetes, container runtimes, and infrastructure-as-code tooling to enforce repeatability across deployments. • Drive CI/CD, networking, identity, observability, and security controls against target-environment constraints and threat models. • Implement the technical controls and documentation required for EAL, FedRAMP, GovRAMP, NATO, UK MOD, or equivalent customer accreditation regimes. • Translate engineering tooling requirements into platform specifications, ensuring CI/CD, containerization, and accreditation workflows meet time-sensitive delivery windows. • Work with platform and engineering leads to resolve conflicts between automation, hardening, and operational constraints. • Sequence platform rollouts and upgrades to minimize disruption to active development while maintaining compliance posture and system hardening.
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