Title: Staff Platform Engineer

Department: Platform & Release Engineering

Location: Espoo, Finland / Berlin, Germany

Reports to: Infrastructure Engineering Lead

Employment type: Permanent

Workplace model: Hybrid

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

Why this role matters

As a Senior / Staff Platform Engineer, you’ll own and evolve the foundations that all services rely on, leading the design and operation of a secure, scalable Kubernetes platform across cloud and on-prem environments so product teams can ship faster with less friction and stronger reliability at scale.

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 continuously improve a secure, scalable, and resilient Kubernetes platform across cloud and on-prem environments

Build and maintain standardized platform capabilities such as ingress, service mesh, secrets management, and lifecycle automation

Develop reusable infrastructure patterns and Terraform modules for AWS and on-prem platforms to enable fast, auditable provisioning

Strengthen observability through clear metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and actionable alerting that support effective operational decisions

Reduce platform friction for product teams by providing architectural guidance, platform standards, and hands-on enablement

Automate platform lifecycle management including bootstrap, upgrades, scaling, and operational maintenance to reduce manual effort and risk

Drive technical direction and sound architectural choices across platform engineering with pragmatic trade-offs between reliability, security, speed, and maintainability

Help raise engineering maturity by mentoring others and shaping shared engineering standards across teams

What we’re looking for

Must haves

8+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure roles operating production-critical services at scale

Deep hands-on expertise with Kubernetes, including cluster architecture, upgrades, control plane operations, networking, ingress, storage, security, and lifecycle management

Strong understanding of AWS fundamentals, including networking, IAM, compute, storage, and security patterns

Strong experience with Terraform and infrastructure as code, including reusable modules, abstractions, and scalable provisioning patterns

Strong practical observability experience, including SLO and SLI design, instrumentation, dashboarding, alert strategy, and production performance analysis

Proficiency in at least one backend language such as Python or Go for automation, tooling, and internal platform capabilities

Experience providing technical leadership through platform standards, architectural guidance, and hands-on enablement

Ability to operate effectively in complex environments and make pragmatic technical decisions across reliability, security, speed, and maintainability