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Your day-to-day responsibilities
- 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
What we’re looking forMust haves
- 8+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure roles operating production-critical services at scale
- Deep hands-on expertise with Kubernetes, including cluster architecture, upgrades, control plane operations, networking, ingress, storage, security, and lifecycle management
- Strong understanding of AWS fundamentals, including networking, IAM, compute, storage, and security patterns
- Strong experience with Terraform and infrastructure as code, including reusable modules, abstractions, and scalable provisioning patterns
- Strong practical observability experience, including SLO and SLI design, instrumentation, dashboarding, alert strategy, and production performance analysis
- Proficiency in at least one backend language such as Python or Go for automation, tooling, and internal platform capabilities
- Experience providing technical leadership through platform standards, architectural guidance, and hands-on enablement
- Ability to operate effectively in complex environments and make pragmatic technical decisions across reliability, security, speed, and maintainability
Nice to haves
- 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
Application Process
- Talent Attraction Introduction
- Hiring Manager Alignment
- Task Assignment
- Technical Interview
- Director Interview
Working at ICEYEAt 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.
