Job Description
- Senior Infrastructure & Platform Engineer
- InSAR - Engineering
- Helsinki, Finland
- InSAR Exploitation Team
- Permanent
- Hybrid
- Employment is subject to applicable security screening (incl. SUPO, where required)
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.
The Role
You’re turning innovative research and bespoke tooling into secure, scalable, observable production systems. You’ll help establish the platform standards—AWS foundations, batch & workflow orchestration, CI/CD, IaC, security, and observability—that let our scientists and engineers ship reliable, low‑latency InSAR pipelines and APIs. While much of our development environment is in AWS, some of our offerings must be deployed in on-premise environments for production use and you will learn to prepare deployments outside of AWS. You will balance cloud infrastructure knowledge with on-premise needs to serve our customers. You’ll balance rigor with pragmatism, helping the team raise the reliability bar without slowing scientific iteration. You’ll help take systems that already work for our team and make them reliable, secure, and scalable for broader enterprise and customer use.
What You’ll Do
Lead and evolve cloud foundations in AWS: multi‑account setup and guardrails (Organizations, IAM/SCP/SSO), secure networking, encryption (KMS), secrets, artifact governance.
Support on-premise deployments when needed, working closely with other engineering teams.
Choose the right compute & orchestration for the service/product needs we have.
Codify everything: build reusable Terraform/Terragrunt/CDK modules; drift control; environment promotion. Automate when possible.
Harden CI/CD: SBOMs, image signing, policy gates, progressive delivery, fast rollback.
Observability that matters: metrics/logs/traces (CloudWatch and/or Datadog), SLOs/error budgets, alerting, incident response with blameless postmortems.
Security at speed: vulnerability management, supply‑chain hardening, least‑privilege by default, data‑access boundaries.
Cost & performance: capacity planning, spot strategies, storage patterns for large rasters (S3, EFS/FSx), data‑locality aware processing.
Partner to productize: help package Python algorithms into cloud‑native services and simple job specs; provide “golden‑path” templates for the team.
Amplify with AI‑assist: accelerate coding, test generation, docs/runbooks—aligned with ICEYE’s AI‑productivity direction.
Deep AWS experience operating production systems at scale
Strong with Python for automation/tooling (reading service code as needed)
Batch/workflow orchestration
Containers at scale (Docker, ECR), CI/CD, artifact integrity and rollout strategies
IaC (Terraform/Terragrunt or CDK) and Git‑driven ops
Production observability and SRE practices (SLOs, incident response), CloudWatch/Datadog
Security fundamentals: IAM, network segmentation, encryption, vulnerability management
Kubernetes or equivalent
LLM IDE Tooling proficiency & curiosity (e.g. Cursor, Claude, Copilot)
Nice‑to‑haves
- Experience with on-premise deployment
- Argo Workflows and Hera
- GPU scheduling; FSx for Lustre; Postgres/PostGIS; OPA/Gatekeeper
- Geospatial/EO exposure (SAR stacks, STAC, GDAL, xarray/dask)
- Go familiarity to interface with services written elsewhere at ICEYE (nice to have only)
What’s In It for You?
- A job that matters in a dynamic Earth Observation environment with a scale-up approach
- An independent role with a supportive and diverse work environment
- Occupational healthcare, occupational and accident insurance
- A yearly benefit budget to spend as you wish (i.e. on sport, transport, bike benefit, wellness, lunch, etc.)
- Phone subscription with iPhone of choice
- Relocation support (i.e. flight tickets, accommodation, relocation agency support)
- Time for self-development, research, training, conferences, or certification schemes
- Inspiring and collaborating offices and silent workspaces enable you to focus
- A wide variety of the best coffee, tea, snacks, and sweets to accompany your daily space mission
- Competitive salary contingent on your experience level, and will be negotiated individually
- Employment is subject to applicable security screening (incl. SUPO, where required)
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
At ICEYE, diversity is more than just a value - it’s our greatest strength. We’re dedicated to creating an inclusive environment where every voice is not only heard but celebrated. Diverse perspectives drive innovation and creativity, so we actively seek individuals from all backgrounds and experiences.
No matter your background, we encourage you to bring your authentic self to the team. Join us and be part of a workplace where differences are embraced and valued, because together, we’re stronger.
Apply now to begin your ICEYE journey and help us make the impossible possible.
Learn more about ICEYE and life at our company at iceye.com.
Ready to launch your career? Apply now and help us build the future of Space Tech! 🚀
