Second Front Systems

• Own the authorization workstreams for Game Warden across FedRAMP and US agency ATO packages, including initial authorizations, annual assessments, and significant change requests. • Author and maintain System Security Plans (SSPs), control implementation narratives, Plans of Action & Milestones (POA&Ms), and supporting authorization artifacts that accurately reflect our architecture, controls, and operating reality. Drive findings and control gaps to closure with measurable outcomes. • Drive continuous monitoring activities including monthly POA&M updates, vulnerability and patch reporting, significant change reviews, and annual control assessments. • Serve as a technical point of contact for 3PAOs, agency reviewers, and sponsor authorization officials during assessments, readiness reviews, and audits. • Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Security Operations, and Cybersecurity Assessment teams to map technical controls to FedRAMP and NIST 800-53 requirements, and to collect defensible evidence. • Translate complex regulatory requirements into clear, actionable guidance that engineering teams can implement, not just policy language. • Use and help improve our GRC and evidence automation tooling to streamline control mapping, evidence collection, and continuous monitoring, writing basic scripts or queries (e.g., Python, Bash, SQL, simple API calls) where they save the team time. • Contribute to the evolution of 2F’s authorization processes, tooling, and evidence workflows as we scale our portfolio across frameworks and environments.

• Lead and mentor a team of security engineers and compliance specialists focused on architecture, control implementation, and audit readiness, fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement. • Define and maintain security architecture and control patterns for Game Warden and supporting services, aligned with mission, risk, and accreditation needs. • Serve as the senior technical lead for the execution of key security accreditations and certifications, including FedRAMP, US agency ATOs, ISO 27001, UK government / NCSC-aligned cloud security expectations, and NATO-related accreditations. • Lead creation and maintenance of System Security Plans (SSPs), Plans of Action & Milestones (POA&Ms), security policies, standards, and technical control narratives, ensuring documentation accurately reflects our architecture, controls, and operating reality. • Coordinate continuous monitoring activities, significant change reviews, and evidence collection so our accreditations stay current and our controls get stronger over time. • Partner closely with Security Operations, Cybersecurity Assessment, Product, Engineering, Legal, and Sales teams to support complex customer requirements and unblock deals in highly regulated environments. • Lead the technical representation of the company in third-party audits (3PAO) and accreditation sessions, ensuring all security documentation and postures are effectively articulated and defended to maintain authorization.

• Coordinate stakeholders to manage scope, secure support and resources for contract delivery • Act as a primary customer contact for program activities, participating in program activities, leading program review sessions with customers to discuss cost, schedule, and technical performance. • Reconcile competing priorities, align complementary initiatives, and build coalitions among cross-functional partners • Participate in strategic planning sessions to align Game Warden with the evolving needs of the defense sector and ensure our offerings meet US Government emerging needs.

• Design, develop, and improve agentic AI systems using LangGraph and LangChain, with a focus on reliability, traceability, and measurable output quality. • Advance existing capabilities including the DAG driven AI and chatbots by improving reasoning, tool-calling accuracy, and inference confidence. • Develop and mature evaluation frameworks to assess AI-generated outputs across dimensions including groundedness, faithfulness, relevance, context precision, and context recall. • Improve and extend multi-LLM ensemble system including consensus scoring methods, model weighting, and aggregation strategies. • Design and implement fine-tuning and prompt optimization pipelines for domain-specific cybersecurity and compliance use cases. • Develop AI/ML components for RAG systems, including embedding strategies, retrieval optimization, chunking, and re-ranking. • Partner with Product and Engineering teams to identify high-leverage opportunities to introduce AI across onboarding, deployment, monitoring, configuration, and remediation workflows. • Develop and document reusable AI-native components, integration patterns, and deployment blueprints, including single-tenant and multi-tenant LLM serving architectures on AWS Bedrock, Cohere, Anthropic, and OpenAI-compatible providers.

• Own quarterly and annual sales-qualified pipeline targets with clear accountability for ROI. • Build and execute an integrated performance marketing strategy spanning paid media, SEO, content, events, partnerships, and sales-led programs. • Lead a structured growth experimentation program across channels, running continuous tests to improve conversion, efficiency, and pipeline velocity. • Manage hands-on paid acquisition across LinkedIn, Google, and emerging platforms, optimizing budget allocation for pipeline impact. • Identify and validate new demand channels through controlled pilots and data-driven analysis. • Build and scale SEO and content programs that generate qualified inbound demand while maintaining high production standards. • Apply AI-enabled workflows to accelerate campaign development, audience targeting, personalization, and performance analysis. • Own full-funnel performance, including landing page optimization, conversion rate improvement, lifecycle nurture, and lead scoring. • Partner with Events to maximize pipeline impact before, during, and after strategic activations. • Collaborate with Partner Marketing to drive joint demand initiatives that expand reach and accelerate deal cycles. • Develop clear attribution models that connect multi-channel activity to sales-qualified pipeline and revenue. • Create repeatable playbooks and systems that scale as the company grows.

• Design, develop, and deploy security automation and monitoring microservices in Go (Golang). • Build and maintain security automation and monitoring solutions with a focus on Azure environments, leveraging tools such as Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Azure Monitor, and Azure AD. • Enhance and maintain SIEM integrations, log pipelines, and threat detection logic across AWS, Kubernetes, and application layers. • Build infrastructure as code (IaC) with Pulumi in Go to securely deploy cloud-native services. • Develop and maintain incident detection and response automation, integrating with tools such as AWS Security Hub, GuardDuty, Inspector, Wazuh, and others. • Create and manage dashboards, alerts, and playbooks to support real-time monitoring and Blue Team operations. • Support threat-hunting initiatives through custom log enrichment, alert tuning, and behavioral detection. • Work closely with the other Security Engineers and the platform team to assess risk, harden configurations, and evolve security posture. • Document architectures, detection logic, and operational procedures to ensure repeatability and scalability.

Role Description Second Front Systems (2F) is seeking an experienced and strategic Head of Talent Acquisition to lead and scale our hiring function during a critical phase of company growth. In this role, you will own and evolve our end-to-end talent acquisition function—ensuring we attract, assess, and hire exceptional talent capable of operating in the defense-tech ecosystem. - Own and execute the company-wide talent acquisition strategy aligned to business priorities, growth plans, and budget. - Serve as a strategic advisor to the executive team and functional leaders on workforce planning, headcount prioritization, and hiring tradeoffs. - Lead hiring across technical, go-to-market, and G&A roles, with expertise in cleared and clearance-eligible hiring. - Build and scale recruiting processes, including compliance-driven hiring considerations. - Own and optimize all TA systems and tooling (ATS, interview workflows, reporting, vendor partnerships). - Ensure consistent, high-quality candidate experience from first touch through offer and close. - Partner closely with the Executive team, hiring managers, and hiring teams to ensure outstanding results. - Establish clear recruiting metrics and dashboards (time-to-hire, pipeline health, offer acceptance, quality of hire) and use data to drive continuous improvement. - Develop hiring manager capability through structured interview training, calibration, and ongoing partnership. - Manage external recruiting partners (RPO, retained search, agencies) as needed, ensuring cost-effective and high-quality outcomes. - Build hiring strategies specific to our approved job hubs, balancing local market dynamics with remote and hybrid needs. Qualifications - 8+ years of progressive talent acquisition experience, including leadership roles. - Proven experience hiring for cleared or clearance-eligible roles within defense, aerospace, gov-tech, or adjacent regulated industries. - Experience owning and scaling recruiting systems and infrastructure (ATS, tooling, analytics). - Track record of partnering closely with executive leadership and functional heads. - Experience managing vendors, agencies, or RPO partners. - Startup or high-growth company experience strongly preferred. Requirements - Ability to translate business strategy into a clear, executable hiring roadmap. - Strong judgment navigating tradeoffs between speed, quality, and compliance. - Bias toward action, ownership, and measurable outcomes. - Exceptional stakeholder management skills with senior leaders and executives. - Ability and desire to get the job done well. - Comfort operating in ambiguity while building structure and repeatability. Benefits - Competitive Salary. - 100% Healthcare, vision and dental coverage. - 401(k) + 3% company contribution. - Equity incentive plan. - Tech + office supplies stipend. - Annual professional development stipend. - Flexible paid time off + federal holidays off. - Parental leave. - Work from anywhere. - Referral Bonus.

• Serve as the primary point of contact for customers, fostering strong relationships with government end users and commercial clients. • Conduct regular Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) to communicate progress, gather feedback, and ensure alignment with customer goals. • Responsible for renewals, upsells, and cross sells. • Partner closely with engineering and product teams to ensure timely and successful delivery of technical solutions. • Translate customer needs into actionable requirements, ensuring seamless integration and deployment of our PaaS solutions. • Guide customers through the Authority to Operate (ATO) compliance process, ensuring they meet necessary security and regulatory standards. • Stay up-to-date on compliance trends, government requirements, and cloud security best practices to support customer success. • Serve as a trusted technical advisor, helping customers optimize their use of our platform. • Advocate for customers by sharing feedback and insights to inform product development and enhancements. • Monitor customer success metrics, including adoption rates, satisfaction scores, and retention, to identify opportunities for improvement. • Develop and execute strategies to improve customer outcomes and increase platform utilization.

• Architect, improve, and implement customer applications. • Deploy and support applications in our cloud-native platform. • Build, test, validate, and operate customer applications on Game Warden. • Research and develop solutions to improve customer deployment outcomes. • Work cross-functionally with engineering, operations, and security teams. • Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve incidents across infrastructures. • Develop and document new solutions independently in a fast-paced environment. • Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines. • Contribute to a team culture of innovation, diversity, and excellence.

• Project manage customer delivery projects from PreSales milestones through technical onboarding—facilitating engagement with Engineering while ensuring knowledge transfer and strong customer relationships. • Collaborate cross-functionally across Sales, Product, Security, Engineering, and Customer Success to drive progress and successful outcomes on customer engagements. • Build and maintain clear project plans, timelines, and dependencies • Identify and escalate risks, blockers, and resourcing needs early • Provide accurate, timely delivery status to customers, cross-functional stakeholders and the Director of Project Delivery • Maintain delivery tracking and documentation in project management tools such as jira • Drive project planning and retrospectives and contribute to continuous improvement