Platform Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Europe.

📋 Description

• Execute the deployment of Game Warden and other Second Front products across AWS, Azure, GCP, and sovereign-cloud infrastructures in European territories.

• Design landing zones that meet sovereignty, customer-control, and GDPR standards while avoiding vendor lock-in.

• Oversee Kubernetes, container runtimes, and infrastructure-as-code tools to ensure repeatable processes.

• Lead efforts in CI/CD, networking, identity management, observability, and security controls in compliance with target-environment constraints and threat models.

• Establish the necessary technical controls and documentation for EAL, FedRAMP, GovRAMP, NATO, UK MOD, or equivalent accreditation frameworks.

• Convert engineering tooling needs into platform specifications.

• Resolve discrepancies between automation, hardening, and operational limitations in collaboration with platform and engineering leaders.

• Plan platform rollouts and upgrades to minimize disruptions while ensuring compliance and system hardening.

• Prepare production environments and transfer them with comprehensive runbooks and technical documentation.

• Function as the liaison between platform architecture and customer deployment.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of practical experience in platform engineering, DevSecOps, cloud infrastructure, SRE, or systems engineering within production settings.

• Extensive expertise with AWS, Azure, GCP, or similar cloud platforms at scale.

• Experience managing production-grade Kubernetes and container orchestration in operational environments.

• Proficient in writing and maintaining infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi.

• Proven history of building, securing, and managing CI/CD pipelines under regulatory or high-assurance compliance conditions.

• Familiarity with networking, IAM, SAML/OAuth, APIs, and troubleshooting distributed systems in production scenarios.

• Proficient in English with the ability to collaborate asynchronously across globally distributed engineering teams.

• Citizenship in the EU from any of the 27 member states.

• Authorized to work in the European Union.

• Residing 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: Knowledge of EAL/Common Criteria, FedRAMP, GovRAMP, NATO, UK MOD, NIS-2, or CRA accreditation processes.

• Preferred: Proficiency in Go, Python, or Rust for developing internal tools.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity awards.

• Discretionary bonuses.

• Comprehensive total rewards package.

• Certified as a Great Place to Work®.