Senior DevOps Engineer

📋 Job Overview

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. ICEYE delivers space-based intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities to governments and allied nations, using world-leading synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite technology.

🏢 About ICEYE

ICEYE is a global scale-up headquartered in Finland, operating across Europe, North America, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific. With over 900 employees, we are united by a shared vision: improving life on Earth by becoming the global source of truth in Earth Observation. Our technology serves defense, intelligence, security, maritime domain awareness, and civil protection for natural-catastrophe intelligence, insurance, maritime monitoring, and finance.

🎯 The Role

You will join the Platform & Release Engineering team within the Engineering department, reporting to the Infrastructure Engineering Lead. This is a permanent position with a hybrid workplace model. Employment is subject to applicable security screening, including SUPO.

✅ Key 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

📌 Required Qualifications

• 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

⭐ Desirable Experience

• 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

🎁 Benefits

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. Our benefits are designed to support your health and wellbeing, at work and beyond, and offerings vary by location.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

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