Senior DevOps Engineer - Core Platform Engineering

About the role

- 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