Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer, ISR
Senior DevOps/Platform Engineer building automation to package and deploy ISR products to on-prem and air-gapped environments. You will write Python tooling, manage Kubernetes and bare-metal infrastructure, and develop CI/CD pipelines for offline-installable releases in a defense-focused context.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Berlin
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Devops
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Senior hands-on engineer experience
- Strong experience building infrastructure and deployment automation
- Solid coding skills in Python or deep experience in Go
- Daily use of AI tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor) for engineering
- High autonomy and ability to drive fixes
- Motivation to work in defense technology
Nice to have
- On-prem or datacenter experience (VMware, Proxmox, storage, networking)
- Experience delivering to air-gapped or restricted environments
- Release engineering: shipping packaged products to customers
- Built internal tools (CLI, operator, provisioning service)
- Operated PostgreSQL in production (upgrades, backups, migrations)
- PostGIS experience
- Track record in a startup or fast-changing company
- Clear communication skills with experienced engineers
Full description
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.