Job
- Level
- Senior
- Location
- Berlin
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Job Field
- IT, DevOps, Security
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
Job Summary
In this role, you will develop a robust Kubernetes platform and continuously optimize it. You will automate the lifecycle, integrate observability, and provide technical guidance for product teams.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- Design, operate, and continuously improve a secure, scalable, and resilient Kubernetes platform across cloud and on-prem environments.
- Build and maintain standardized platform capabilities such as ingress, service mesh, secrets management, and lifecycle automation.
- Develop reusable infrastructure patterns and Terraform modules for AWS and on-prem platforms to enable fast, auditable provisioning.
- Strengthen observability through clear metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and actionable alerting that support effective operational decisions.
- Reduce platform friction for product teams by providing architectural guidance, platform standards, and hands-on enablement.
- Automate platform lifecycle management including bootstrap, upgrades, scaling, and operational maintenance to reduce manual effort and risk.
- Drive technical direction and sound architectural choices across platform engineering with pragmatic trade-offs between reliability, security, speed, and maintainability.
- Help raise engineering maturity by mentoring others and shaping shared engineering standards across teams.
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Our expectations of you
Qualifications
- Deep hands-on expertise with Kubernetes, including cluster architecture, upgrades, control plane operations, networking, ingress, storage, security, and lifecycle management.
- Starkes Verständnis der AWS-Grundlagen, einschließlich Netzwerk, IAM, Compute, Storage und Sicherheitsmuster.
- Proficiency in at least one backend language such as Python or Go for automation, tooling, and internal platform capabilities.
- Ability to operate effectively in complex environments and make pragmatic technical decisions across reliability, security, speed, and maintainability.
Experience
- 8+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure roles operating production-critical services at scale.
- Starke Erfahrung mit Terraform und Infrastructure as Code, einschließlich wiederverwendbarer Module, Abstraktionen und skalierbarer Bereitstellungsmuster.
- Strong practical observability experience, including SLO and SLI design, instrumentation, dashboarding, alert strategy, and production performance analysis.
- Experience providing technical leadership through platform standards, architectural guidance, and hands-on enablement.
- Experience with Rancher, Istio, External Secrets, Vault, and software supply-chain hardening practices.
- Experience operating Kubernetes in restricted, disconnected, or air-gapped environments.
- Experience with hybrid platforms spanning AWS and on-prem environments such as vSphere or VxRail.
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What we offer
- Employment is subject to applicable security screening (incl. SUPO).
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About Your Employer
ICEYE
ICEYE Oy is an innovative company from Finland specializing in the development and operation of SAR satellites. It provides valuable Earth observation data for various applications.
Description
- Company Type
- Startup
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Aviation, Space Travel
Staff Platform Engineer
- Location
- Berlin
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
- English Only
- English only required
