IT Engineer

As an IT Engineer, you will design, build, and operate the IT and infrastructure that underpins Helsing's European offices and engineering teams. You will work across geographies and functions to deliver secure, scalable, and reliable infrastructure for collaborative work on highly sensitive defence technologies in alignment with applicable regulations, standards, and industry best practice. You will own meaningful parts of our endpoint, identity, network, and cloud estate, and partner closely with Security, Engineering, and IT Support to keep Helsing moving fast without compromising on trust. Your work is an essential ingredient in Helsing's ability to deliver complex systems that answer the challenges of tomorrow's battlefields.

• Configure, harden, and operate endpoints (workstations, laptops, servers) across macOS, Windows, and Linux.

• Design, deploy, and maintain on-prem compute environments built on Linux, including supporting capabilities like virtualisation and Kubernetes.

• Configure and operate our network and VPN infrastructure across offices and remote workers, including network- and host-based security tooling.

• Operate and continuously optimise our corporate, development, and customer environments built primarily on Microsoft 365 and Azure, alongside other SaaS solutions.

• Lead the design and rollout of identity, access, and device management at scale (Entra ID, Conditional Access, MDM).

• Automate provisioning, configuration, and operational toil using PowerShell, Python, and IaC tooling.

• Partner with our IT Support team to resolve escalations, eliminate recurring issues, and raise the engineering bar across the IT function.

• Contribute to security, compliance, and audit activities, and help shape Helsing's IT strategy as we scale.

• Have 5+ years of experience in IT infrastructure and information security, ideally including time in the defence, government, or other regulated industries.

• Have worked in an IT Engineering or SysAdmin role with hands-on experience across macOS clients, Linux servers, cloud environments (Azure and/or AWS), and capabilities like Kubernetes.

• Have managed modern network infrastructure, ideally including administration of network- and host-based security tools.

• Have strong scripting and automation skills (PowerShell, Python, or IaC tooling such as Terraform/Ansible).

• Employ strong problem-solving, critical thinking, and analytical skills, with the ability to find creative solutions to ambiguous problems.

• Are collaborative, humble, intellectually curious, and driven to solve hard problems.

• Your personal values match ours: ownership, initiative, dedication to mission, speed, and inclusiveness.

• Feel strongly about the right of democracies to defend their sovereignty through the fielding of capabilities that bolster deterrence and decisive action

• Deep experience with the Microsoft 365 stack (Entra ID, Intune, Exchange, SharePoint, Defender, Purview).

• Experience operating SIEM stacks and contributing to detection and response workflows.

• Experience administering MDM tooling such as Intune, Jamf, or JumpCloud at scale.

• Experience designing or operating Zero Trust network architectures.

• Familiarity with information security regulations and frameworks relevant to defence work in Europe (e.g. ISO 27001, NIS2, BSI IT-Grundschutz, UK Secure by Design, or equivalents).

• Experience scaling IT in a fast-growing engineering organisation.