Senior DevOps Engineer – Core Platform Engineering

Location: Espoo, Finland / Berlin, Germany

Department: Platform & Release Engineering - Engineering

Reports to: Infrastructure Engineering Lead

Employment type: Permanent

Workplace model: Hybrid / Office

Employment is subject to applicable security screening (incl. SUPO)

Why this role matters

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you’ll design and operate the core platform foundations that power ICEYE’s products, enabling secure, scalable, and reliable services across cloud and on-prem environments.

Who We Are

ICEYE delivers space-based intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities to governments and allied nations. This includes sovereign and turnkey ISR missions leveraging ICEYE’s world-leading synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite technology, as well as access to data from the world’s largest SAR satellite constellation. These capabilities enable partners to detect and respond to critical changes anywhere on Earth with unprecedented speed and accuracy, day or night and in any weather, supported by ultra high-resolution imagery and high-frequency revisits.

As a trusted partner for defense, intelligence, security, and maritime domain awareness, ICEYE’s near real-time data creates a tactical advantage for mission-critical operations. Designed for dual use, the platform also serves civil protection and commercial users for natural-catastrophe intelligence, insurance, maritime monitoring including oil-spill detection, and finance, contributing to global security and community resilience.

ICEYE is headquartered in Finland and operates globally across Europe, North America, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific. We have more than 900 employees, united by a shared vision: improving life on Earth by becoming the global source of truth in Earth Observation.

Your day-to-day responsibilities

Design, operate, and evolve core platform components including Kubernetes, ingress, service mesh, and secrets management

Build and maintain reusable infrastructure modules using Terraform across AWS and on-prem environments

Define and implement observability standards, including metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerting

Partner with product teams to guide platform adoption and enable scalable, platform-aligned architectures

Automate platform lifecycle processes including provisioning, upgrades, and scaling

Improve platform reliability, performance, and security through continuous iteration

Support and mentor engineers on best practices in Kubernetes, networking, identity, and observability

Reduce operational overhead through tooling, automation, and improved platform abstractions

What we’re looking for

Must haves

5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering roles operating production systems

Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes, including cluster operations, networking, and lifecycle management

Solid understanding of AWS fundamentals including networking, IAM, compute, and storage

Experience with infrastructure as code using tools such as Terraform

Practical experience with observability, including SLOs, metrics, logs, traces, and alerting

Proficiency in at least one backend language such as Python or Go

Strong Linux systems knowledge and troubleshooting skills

Ability to collaborate across teams and communicate effectively in English

Nice to haves

Experience with Rancher, Istio, External Secrets, or Vault

Experience operating in restricted or air-gapped environments

Experience with identity systems such as FusionAuth or SSO integrations

Experience in regulated or mission-critical environments

Experience with hybrid infrastructure across AWS and on-prem platforms

Application process

Recruiter interview

Hiring manager interview

Task Assignment

Technical interview

Final interview

Working at ICEYE

At ICEYE, you’ll join a diverse and highly engaged team united by the ambition to make the impossible possible. As a global scale-up, we combine speed and ambition with the opportunity to take real ownership from day one. Your growth, wellbeing, and success are a priority, with continuous professional development, training opportunities, and a culture where collaboration is how we win.