Solutions Engineer

Join Second Front Systems as a Solutions Engineer, where you'll play a crucial role in translating technical architecture decisions into deployable, warfighter-ready capabilities. You'll be responsible for the technical sales path from discovery through validation and close across EMEA, developing architectures, running demonstrations, and clearing technical blockers. This position requires strong technical knowledge, excellent communication skills, and a background in defense or regulated industries.

Responsibilities

• Assurer la découverte technique et la qualification des opportunités en EMEA, en évaluant l'application, l'infrastructure, la sécurité, l'intégration et le déploiement.
• Développer des architectures proposées couvrant le cloud, le réseau, l'identité, les intégrations, la résidence des données, la souveraineté et la sécurité, adaptées à l'environnement de chaque client.
• Livrer des démonstrations, exécuter des preuves de valeur et faciliter les évaluations non-production approuvées pour les fournisseurs de logiciels, les entreprises de défense, les entreprises réglementées et les clients gouvernementaux.

Requirements

• Ability to develop credible technical designs without creating unsupported bespoke commitments
• At least 2 years of hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP, and strong cloud infrastructure knowledge
• Strong written and verbal technical communication, with the ability to work effectively with engineers, security teams, architects, procurement stakeholders, and government customers
• Hands-on familiarity with containers, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, networking, IAM, and APIs
• Fluent English, existing work authorization (residency-based) in your EU country of employment, and willingness to travel across EMEA
• 3+ years in a technical customer-facing role — solutions engineering, sales engineering, solutions architecture, or technical pre-sales
• Working ability with scripting or software development, sufficient to troubleshoot integrations, applications, and cloud environments
• Ability to troubleshoot technical issues across application and infrastructure layers during evaluations
• Prior experience in defense, govtech, or another regulated industry, particularly with sovereign cloud, GovCloud, or classified/accredited environments
• Familiarity with government or allied accreditation and certification frameworks (e.g., NATO, UK MOD, FedRAMP, GovRAMP, CRA, NIS-2, C5, or national equivalents)
• Fluency in an additional European language relevant to a priority EMEA market
• Experience supporting partner/channel enablement with hyperscalers, primes, or systems integrators

Preferred

• Relevant cloud certifications (AWS, Azure, or GCP)

Pay

EUR 110,000 - 130,000