Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer, ISR

Role highlights:

• Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer, ISR
• Location: Berlin, Germany
• Department: ISR Analytics
• Reports to: VP of ISR Analytics
• Employment type: Permanent
• Workplace model: Hybrid
• Employment is subject to applicable security screening (incl. SUPO, where required)

Why this role matters:

ICEYE's Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) team builds products that put ICEYE satellite data to work for military and intelligence users. We deliver tactical and strategic intelligence to sovereign mission customers, many of them using space-based data at scale for the first time. The team brings together military intelligence, data science and AI, and software engineering.

Our products run in secure, sovereign environments. We develop in the cloud for convenience, but customers run the product on their own servers, often in air-gapped networks.

This role is not about keeping one system running and tuning it. Here, every environment is temporary: you build the automation that creates, ships, upgrades and tears down complete deployments, reliably and repeatably, in places with no internet access. You work inside the product team, not beside it, and many of your changes will touch the application codebase.

Who We Are

ICEYE is the world leader in sovereign intelligence from space. We deliver persistent monitoring capabilities to detect and respond to changes in any location on Earth.

ICEYE owns the world's largest and most advanced SAR (synthetic aperture radar) satellite constellation. To our customers we provide intelligence with unmatched quality, latency and revisit times, in any weather, day or night. To governments who choose to operate their own constellation we provide this proven capability as a sovereign system.

ICEYE-built constellations serve customers in defence and intelligence, environmental monitoring, insurance and emergency management. We enable fast decisions that contribute to a safer future.

Founded and headquartered in Finland, ICEYE operates globally with over 1000 employees across Europe, North America, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.

Your day-to-day responsibilities

• Build and own the automation that packages our product and deploys it to on-prem and air-gapped customer environments.
• Write tooling (mostly Python) that fills the gaps between off-the-shelf tools, rather than only configuring them.
• Provision and manage infrastructure from bare metal and hypervisors up to Kubernetes, and make it reproducible from code.
• Keep cloud development environments fast and disposable, so engineers can spin up a full stack on demand.
• Build CI/CD pipelines that produce signed, versioned, offline-installable releases.
• Set up observability that works when nobody can reach the system from outside.
• Spot what the team needs next and raise it, without waiting to be asked.

What we’re looking for

Must haves:

• Senior hands-on engineer (not an engineering manager or architect role).
• Strong experience building infrastructure and deployment automation, not only operating existing systems.
• Solid coding skills in Python, or deep experience in another language (for example Go) and willingness to work in Python.
• Daily use of AI tools in engineering work, beyond chat: generating and reviewing code, configuration and tests (for example Claude Code, Cursor).
• High autonomy: you find problems, propose fixes and drive them through.
• Motivation to work in new defense: building technology used by defense forces.

Nice to haves:

• On-prem or datacenter experience: bootstrapping servers, virtualization (VMware, Proxmox), storage and networking, not just public cloud.
• Delivered to air-gapped or otherwise restricted environments.
• Release engineering: shipping a packaged product to many customer environments on a fixed schedule.
• Built internal tools and automation used by other engineers (a CLI, an operator, a provisioning service).
• Operated PostgreSQL in production (upgrades, backups, migrations); PostGIS a plus.
• Strong IC track record in a startup or a fast-changing company launching new products.
• Comfortable in an environment where process and requirements change often and are not always fully defined.
• Clear communicator who works well with experienced, opinionated engineers.

Application Process

• Outline the stages of this role, including task stages.

Working at ICEYE

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.

How We Work (Our Values)

Make the impossible possible: We set ambitious goals and stay calm under pressure. We bring grit, optimism, and ownership when things get hard, and we keep moving until we find a way.

• Be curious: Go deep, ask questions, listen carefully, and think critically. Understand the “why” behind decisions.
• See the big picture: Stay close to what’s happening across the company so you can make better decisions. Consider how your work affects others.
• Drive effective teamwork: Create psychological safety, invite different perspectives, and build inclusive teams. There are no bad questions.
• Act as one team: We win together. We match tasks to the right owner and stay agile as priorities shift.
• Have fun: What we do matters—and it should be enjoyable. Celebrate progress, take pride in results, and share the wins.

Benefits

Our benefits are designed to support your health and wellbeing, at work and beyond. We keep improving them based on employee feedback, and offerings vary by location. Talent Acquisition will confirm what applies for this role and location during the process.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

We want ICEYE to be a place where people can be themselves and do great work. Different backgrounds and perspectives make us stronger, which is why we work to create an environment where people feel included, respected, and able to speak up. Whatever your background, we want you to bring your authentic self to the table.

We’re committed to fair, inclusive hiring and equal opportunity. Everyone is welcome to apply. If you need any adjustments or support during the recruitment process, tell us—we’ll do our best to help.

Apply now to start your ICEYE journey, and help us continue to make the impossible possible together. Read more about ICEYE and working with us at iceye.com.