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Helsing is a defence AI company on a mission to protect democracies through technological leadership. We are seeking a Lead IT Engineer to own and set the technical direction of our corporate IT infrastructure across identity, endpoints, networking, and cloud systems.
In this hands-on technical leadership role, you will architect and build the foundations, pipelines, and engineering practices that enable safe, repeatable, and fully auditable changes across our IT estate. While you will remain hands-on when complex problems demand it, your primary impact will come from technical design, strategic decisions, and raising the engineering bar across the IT team. Helsing is expanding rapidly across new offices, production sites, and customer environments—many with strict security and regulatory requirements. The systems you design will support engineers and AI specialists building capabilities that protect democracies.
Day-to-day responsibilities include:
- Owning the technical architecture of our corporate IT estate and setting standards for the team
- Designing and building IT tooling, including reusable Terraform modules, remote state management, CI/CD pipelines, secrets management, and end-to-end testing
- Scoping, planning, and leading major IT projects from concept to delivery, such as new office and production site builds, identity and device management changes, and cloud-hosted, segmented, or air-gapped environments
- Acting as the senior technical escalation point for IT Support and IT Engineering, stepping in hands-on on the hardest problems
- Mentoring engineers formally and informally, helping the team build skills to work confidently in a code-first way
You will work in a mission-driven environment that embraces open, transparent culture with healthy debates on technology use in defence, its benefits, and ethical implications. The role offers exposure to cutting-edge technical challenges in reinforcement learning, distributed systems, generative AI, and deployment infrastructure.
Requirements:
- Significant experience in IT engineering, infrastructure, or DevOps, including time as a technical lead or architect for a corporate IT or cloud estate
- Comfort with DevOps practices such as Git workflows, pipelines, code review, and secrets management, with desire to bring these into an IT team
- Deep expertise in Microsoft 365 and Entra ID, including Conditional Access, SSO, and identity lifecycle
- Experience managing macOS and Windows fleets with Jamf and Intune
- Understanding of enterprise networking and Zero Trust access
- Ability to lead through technical credibility and explain trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical audiences
Nice to have:
- Experience managing SaaS platforms through Terraform (Entra ID, Jamf, Okta, Meraki)
- Policy as code or automated compliance checks
- Experience in regulated or classified environments (BSI IT-Grundschutz, VS-NfD, ISO 27001, CE+, NIS2)
- AWS experience, particularly IAM, Organizations, IAM Identity Center, and networking
- Linux server administration and virtualisation (Proxmox, VMware, Hyper-V), including on-prem and air-gapped datacentre builds
- Infrastructure and networking experience in Azure
- Security tooling experience (Microsoft Defender, Purview, vulnerability management platforms like Tenable)
