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ICEYE is the world leader in sovereign intelligence from space, delivering persistent monitoring capabilities via the world's largest and most advanced SAR (synthetic aperture radar) satellite constellation. The company serves defense, intelligence, environmental monitoring, insurance, and emergency management customers globally, with over 1,000 employees across Europe, North America, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.
As IT Systems Lead, you will lead a team of 7 engineers based in Finland and Poland who own the client platform, collaboration systems, AI systems, and identity management infrastructure serving users across 10+ countries. You report to the Director of IT & Applications and operate within a hybrid model in Espoo.
Your mandate is to transform a rapidly grown IT setup into a consolidated, secure, and scalable foundation, operating within a defense and national security environment. This is a hands-on leadership role requiring both strategic direction-setting and technical depth.
Key responsibilities include:
- Owning systems strategy and roadmap across client platforms, AI systems, collaboration tools, and identity management; providing consistent technical direction to the team
- Leading consolidation of a fast-grown toolset into a standardized, secure, and scalable platform
- Maintaining high security standards and alignment with industry best practices, adapting systems as business needs evolve
- Managing incident and problem resolution, escalation procedures, monitoring, and SLAs
- Embedding business continuity, patch management, and logging into system design and operations
- Supporting security audits, accreditations, and certifications
- Collaborating with business stakeholders, product teams, and neighboring IT teams (Infrastructure, Support & Assets, Steering & Enablement) to balance priorities, compliance, and speed
- Owning the systems budget, managing suppliers and consultants, and contributing to quarterly financial planning
You will work in an environment shaped by defense and national security requirements, requiring adaptability and pragmatism as the business scales.
REQUIREMENTS:
Must haves:
- 5+ years leading an IT systems or infrastructure team with hands-on technical experience
- Deep expertise in at least one major collaboration suite (Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace) and tools such as Slack and Atlassian
- Strong experience with identity and access management (e.g., Okta, Entra ID) and endpoint management
- Experience leading distributed, multi-country teams and managing vendors and budgets
- Experience using AI tools in operations and automation, and assessing AI-related systems needs
- Proactive, pragmatic decision-maker who finds simple solutions to complex problems, even with incomplete information
- Eligibility to obtain and maintain a high-level national security clearance in Finland
Nice to haves:
- Experience with EDR (Endpoint Detection and Response) tools
- Linux experience
- Experience with security frameworks or accreditations (e.g., ISO 27001)
- Aerospace, defense, or manufacturing background
