Senior DevOps Engineer - Core Platform Engineering

• Department: Platform & Release Engineering - Engineering 
• Location: Espoo
• Reports to: Infrastructure Engineering Lead
• Permanent
• Hybrid / Office
• Employment is subject to applicable security screening (incl. SUPO)

The Mission of the Senior DevOps Engineer — Core Platform Engineering

Core Platform Engineering provides the secure, reliable, and scalable foundation that powers ICEYE’s products and internal services across AWS and on-prem (vSphere/VxRail). As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you’ll design, automate, and operate our shared platform layer.

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 operates internationally with offices in Finland, Poland, Spain, Japan, the UAE, Greece, and the US. The company has more than 900 employees, inspired by the shared vision of improving life on Earth by becoming the global source of truth in Earth Observation.

Requirements

Outcomes:

• Ownership and evolution of key platform building blocks: Kubernetes, Istio, ingress, secrets management.
• Infrastructure as Code: the design and maintenance of reusable Terraform modules for AWS (VPC, IAM, KMS, compute/storage) and on-prem (vSphere/VxRail) resources and platform services.
• Observability you can trust: the definition meaningful SLOs/SLIs, roll out consistent metrics, logs, and traces (Grafana/Loki/Tempo/Mimir), build dashboards, and tune alerting for actionability (low noise, high signal).
• Partner with product teams: advice on platform-friendly architectures, unblock adoption, and mentor engineers on Kubernetes, networking, identity, and observability best practices.
• Automate the platform lifecycle: automation of cluster/bootstrap/upgrade patterns and reduce manual work via tooling.

Role-specific Competences

• 5+ years in DevOps/SRE/Platform roles operating production services.
• Deep hands-on with Kubernetes (install/upgrade, control plane, CNI, ingress, storage) and Linux systems.
• Understanding of AWS fundamentals (networking, IAM, compute, storage).
• Experience with IaC tools like Terraform and comfort working with platform APIs/CLIs.
• Practical observability experience: SLO design, metrics/logs/traces instrumentation, dashboarding, alert strategy, and capacity/perf analysis.
• Proficiency in at least one backend language ​​(for example Python or Go) for automation/tooling.

Nice to have

• Experience with Rancher, Istio, External Secrets/Vault, and supply-chain hardening (SBOM).
• Operating clusters in restricted or air-gapped environments.
• FusionAuth/SSO integration and policy-as-code.
• Background in regulated or mission-critical domains.
• Experience bridging hybrid environments (AWS + vSphere/VxRail).

Key Competences

In addition to the requirements above, we evaluate candidates on these key qualities throughout the hiring process:

• Intellectual Firepower: Rapidly comprehends, structures and synthesizes complex information, draws accurate conclusions, and communicates them with clarity.
• Passion & Work Ethic: Brings sustained motivation, resilience, and high personal standards to every challenge.
• Ownership & Action: Assumes full accountability for outcomes, acting decisively, and ensuring commitments are delivered.
• Team Player: Works collaboratively across teams, contributing to shared success, and engaging in constructive debate.
• Integrity & Growth Mindset: Operates with transparency and humility, learns from setbacks, and actively seeks opportunities to grow.

Application Process