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Lead IT Engineer

Helsing· IT
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Hybrid (EU-UK)full-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Lead IT Engineer to set the technical direction of Helsing's corporate IT, owning architecture across identity, endpoints, networking and cloud, building foundations, pipelines and engineering practices, with hands-on involvement as needed.

Responsibilities

  • Own the technical architecture of our corporate IT estate and set the standards the team builds to Design and build IT tooling, including reusable Terraform modules, remote state, CI/CD pipelines, secrets management and e2e testing
  • Scope, plan and lead 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
  • Act as the senior technical escalation point for IT Support and IT Engineering, and step in hands-on on the hardest problems
  • Mentor engineers formally and informally, helping the team build the skills to work confidently in a code-first way

Qualifications

  • Have significant experience in IT engineering, infrastructure or DevOps, including time as the technical lead or architect for a corporate IT or cloud estate
  • Are comfortable with DevOps practices such as Git workflows, pipelines, code review and secrets management, and want to bring them into an IT team
  • Have deep expertise in Microsoft 365 and Entra ID, including Conditional Access, SSO and identity lifecycle
  • Have experience managing macOS and Windows fleets with Jamf and Intune
  • Understand enterprise networking and Zero Trust access
  • Lead through technical credibility, explain trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical audiences

Skills

Required:IT architecture leadershipTerraform and infrastructure as codeCI/CD pipelines

Benefits

  • Competitive salary
  • VSOP options
  • Relocation support: up to €2,500 and 4 weeks temporary accommodation
  • Learning: €500/£450 yearly allowance
  • Health & wellness: gym membership and mental health support (Nilo.health)
  • Social: regular company events and monthly social allowances
  • Enhanced parental leave: 22 weeks fully paid for primary caregivers & 6 weeks for secondary caregivers
  • Family support: 5 days of paid family emergency leave, 100% remote work option during pregnancy and phased return to work
  • A hands-on onboarding program (Infraduction) for engineering and AI teams
Last updated Oct 13, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Helsing

Helsing | Artificial intelligence to protect our democracies

AI for electronic warfareAI-enabled precision mass and autonomous systemsAutonomous air dominanceMass defence manufacturingRecce strike softwareUnderwater autonomous massliquid-ai-recruiting-target
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