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Founded by Marines who saw firsthand how outdated government acquisition systems held back frontline personnel, we help commercial software companies get mission-critical technology into the hands of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.\nAbout the Role\nSecond Front Systems is looking for an infrastructure-focused, compliance-minded, operationally disciplined Platform Engineer to strengthen our Platform Engineering function across European regulated environments.\nThis 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.\nYou’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. 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