IT Infrastructure Lead — Global, Secure Onsite Ops

ICEYE; Espoo; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

ICEYE in Espoo seeks an IT Infrastructure Lead to direct a 7‑person team across Finland and Poland, owning networks, data centres, office IT and manufacturing IT. This role blends hands-on architecture with strategic roadmapping in a security‑conscious environment.

You will consolidate global infrastructure, enforce zero‑trust and disaster recovery, manage budgets and vendors, and collaborate with stakeholders to balance speed and compliance in a growing space and defence‑aligned context.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of leading an Infrastructure team and hands-on experience in Infrastructure
• Deep expertise in enterprise network design and operations
• Eligibility to obtain and maintain a high-level national security clearance in Finland
• A proactive can do attitude combined with the ability to find simple solutions to complex problems
• Experience using AI tools in operations and automation, and assessing AI-related infrastructure needs
• Pragmatic decision-maker who finds simple solutions to complex problems, even with incomplete information.
• Experience leading distributed, multi-country teams
• Managing vendors and budgets
• Fluent English
• Willingness to travel

Responsibilities

• Own the infrastructure strategy and roadmap across networks, data centres, offices and manufacturing IT, and give the team a consistent technical direction
• Lead the consolidation of our setup across 10+ countries, and build a repeatable playbook for standing up new offices and sites
• Secure the infrastructure: network segmentation, zero trust, classified environments, and keeping manufacturing (OT) networks separate from office IT
• Keep things running: incident and problem management, escalation, monitoring and SLAs
• Embed business continuity, disaster recovery, patch management and logging into how the infrastructure is built and run
• Support security audits, accreditations and certifications
• Work with business stakeholders, product teams and neighbouring IT teams (IT Systems, IT Support and Assets, IT Steering and Enablement) to balance priorities, compliance and speed
• Own the infrastructure budget, manage suppliers and consultants, and contribute to quarterly financial planning
• Lead, hire and develop a team of 7 across Finland and Poland, while staying hands‑on in architecture, design reviews and critical incidents

Skills

Infrastructure leadership

Enterprise network design

Distributed multi-country teams

Vendor management

Budget management

AI in operations

Fluent English

Willingness to travel

Tools

Kubernetes operations

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

ICEYE in Espoo seeks an IT Infrastructure Lead to direct a 7‑person team across Finland and Poland, owning networks, data centres, office IT and manufacturing IT. This role blends hands-on architecture with strategic roadmapping in a security‑conscious environment.

You will consolidate global infrastructure, enforce zero‑trust and disaster recovery, manage budgets and vendors, and collaborate with stakeholders to balance speed and compliance in a growing space and defence‑aligned context.