Role highlights

Security Officer

Location: New Delhi, India

Department: ICEYE, India

Reports to: CEO, ICEYE India

Employment type: Permanent

Workplace model: Office

Employment is subject to applicable security screening. Appointment as CCSO under SMLDI 2025 is subject to Indian citizenship, police verification, DDP vetting (repeated every three years) and an Official Secrets Act undertaking. Start date depends on government vetting.

Why this role matters

As the Security Officer, you’ll build ICEYE India’s security function from the ground up and serve as our appointed Company Chief Security Officer under India’s Security Manual for Licensed Defence Industries (SMLDI 2025). Your work allows ICEYE India to operate as a licensed defence company, pass government inspections and take part in classified programmes. You’ll also be the CEO’s trusted advisor on all security matters.

Who We Are

ICEYE is the world leader in sovereign intelligence from space. We deliver persistent monitoring capabilities to detect and respond to changes in any location on Earth.

ICEYE owns the world's largest and most advanced SAR (synthetic aperture radar) satellite constellation. To our customers we provide intelligence with unmatched quality, latency and revisit times, in any weather, day or night. To governments who choose to operate their own constellation we provide this proven capability as a sovereign system.

ICEYE-built constellations serve customers in defence and intelligence, environmental monitoring, insurance and emergency management. We enable fast decisions that contribute to a safer future.

Founded and headquartered in Finland, ICEYE operates globally with over 1000 employees across Europe, North America, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.

Your day-to-day responsibilities

Own the roadmap that makes ICEYE India an audit-ready, licensed defence company, including the industrial licence and Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) security clearance

Act as ICEYE India’s appointed Company Chief Security Officer, representing us with the Department of Defence Production (DDP), the MHA and other authorities, and leading every inspection and audit

Build the security framework with the group security team: policies, SOPs, secure areas, classified document registry and the audit trail inspectors expect

Set up and run personnel security: police verification, government vetting, Official Secrets Act undertakings and re-verification cycles

Lead cyber security accreditation as Cyber Information Security Officer under SMLDI Chapter 7, including CERT-In reporting and protection of ICEYE group information held in India

Manage export-control compliance, data exchange with the ICEYE group and foreign-national visits

Translate security requirements into practice for the business, from classified RFPs and contract clauses to customer and IN-SPACe requirements

Prepare and rehearse incident-response and crisis playbooks with Legal and group security

What we’re looking for

Must haves

Indian citizen, eligible for appointment and positive vetting as Company Chief Security Officer (before appointment and every three years)

Former officer of the Armed Forces, a Central Armed Police Force or the Police, with no adverse remarks in your release certificate

Hands-on knowledge of the Official Secrets Act 1923, the MHA security instructions and SMLDI 2025

Track record as a security officer in a defence, intelligence, aerospace or critical-infrastructure organisation in India, including taking an organisation from uncleared to cleared at least once

Established working relationships with the DDP, the MHA and other national security authorities

Working knowledge of IT security accreditation for classified systems (SMLDI Chapter 7, CERT-In, NCIIPC)

Fluent Hindi and English

Nice to haves

Familiarity with NATO, EU or US classified-information frameworks

Working knowledge of India’s export-control regime (SCOMET, DGFT) and IN-SPACe authorisation conditions

Experience in a foreign-owned Indian entity

Application Process

Intro conversation with Talent Acquisition (30 min)