Senior IT Architect & DevOps Lead

Helsing; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

VSOP options

Relocation support

Learning allowance

Gym membership

Mental health support

Company events

Social allowances

Parental leave

Family support

Onboarding program

Job summary

Helsing is seeking a Lead IT Engineer to set the technical direction of Helsing's corporate IT. You will own the architecture across identity, endpoints, networking and cloud, and build foundations, pipelines, and engineering practices that let the team work safely and repeatably.

This hands-on leadership role emphasizes design and high‑impact technical decisions. You will guide the IT estate through secure, scalable solutions while enabling engineers and AI specialists to operate effectively.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in IT engineering, infrastructure or DevOps, including time as the technical lead or architect for a corporate IT or cloud estate.
• Comfortable with DevOps practices such as Git workflows, pipelines, code review and secrets management, and want to bring them 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; understand enterprise networking and Zero Trust access
• Lead through technical credibility, explain trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical audiences

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 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

Skills

IT engineering

infrastructure

DevOps

Git workflows

CI/CD pipelines

secrets management

M365 & Entra ID

Identity lifecycle

macOS & Windows fleets

Zero Trust

technical credibility

Tools

Terraform

remote state

CI/CD tooling

e2e testing

Job description

Helsing is seeking a Lead IT Engineer to set the technical direction of Helsing's corporate IT. You will own the architecture across identity, endpoints, networking and cloud, and build foundations, pipelines, and engineering practices that let the team work safely and repeatably.

This hands-on leadership role emphasizes design and high‑impact technical decisions. You will guide the IT estate through secure, scalable solutions while enabling engineers and AI specialists to operate effectively.