Title:: Technical Release Manager

Department: Platform & Release Engineering

Location: Espoo, Finland

Reports to: Release Engineering Lead

Employment type: Permanent

Workplace model: On-site/Hybrid

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

Why this role matters

The Technical Release Manager owns the end-to-end execution of releases in practice. This role ensures that releases are correctly prepared, executed, validated, and closed across engineering, product, and delivery teams.

The Technical Release Manager is hands-on during release windows, acts as the primary operational contact, and ensures that what was planned is what actually runs in production. This role does not design release tooling or strategy but uses those systems to drive safe and predictable releases

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.

Key Duties

(Coordinate → Prepare → Execute → Verify → Close)

Implement the release process and work closely with the other release representatives to create a seamless release experience for the organization

Coordinate end-to-end release execution across engineering, product management and delivery and support teams

Prepare and track release content, configurations, and dependencies to ensure technical readiness

Execute and support releases, including hands-on post-deployment validation and sanity checks

Validate release content, configurations, feature flags, and release-specific settings

Act as the primary operational point of contact during release windows

Identify, communicate, and escalate execution risks and blockers

Ensure release outcomes and follow-ups are clearly documented

Acts as gatekeeper together with QA Manager to make sure the set quality targets have been met

Owns the feedback loop through the whole release process through to delivery team and facilitate that information back to the product development organization

What are we looking for

Core Experience

5+ years of hands-on experience in one of the following roles:

Release Manager, DevOps Engineer, Software Developer, or Technical Project Manager

Direct experience executing releases in a CI/CD-driven environment

CI/CD & Tooling

Hands-on experience running, monitoring, and troubleshooting releases using GitHub Actions

Ability to interpret pipeline stages, logs, failures, and test signals

Experience triggering, re-running, rolling back, and validating pipeline executions

Working knowledge of Python or scripting to support release execution and operational automation

Release Execution & Coordination

Experience running release syncs, tracking readiness, and managing cross-team dependencies

Ownership of release communications and internal release notes

Comfortable making and coordinating go / no-go decisions within defined criteria