IT Department Lead - Remote, Worldwide

The role

You will lead the Internal IT Department, including Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Security, IAM, and FinOps. You will manage people, drive technical strategy, and own the corporate technology estate.

What you will do

• Lead and supervise the full Internal IT Department
• Drive company-wide and team-level infrastructure initiatives
• Manage people including staffing, career guidance, and performance reviews
• Maintain communication with C-level executives and group leads
• Act as the primary point of contact for all internal IT matters
• Adapt AI technology to daily engineering and non-engineering routines
• Communicate with external clients regarding infrastructure needs
• Identify and implement organizational improvements and optimisations
• Support hiring efforts including sourcing and interviewing
• Conduct monthly performance reviews using Rippling

Required qualifications

• 5+ years in a management role leading and scaling IT, infrastructure, or platform engineering teams
• Strong background in cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and DevOps/SRE practices
• Strategic thinking to co-define and execute technical roadmaps
• Hands-on understanding of infrastructure security, IAM, and FinOps disciplines
• Experience translating compliance and audit requirements into operational controls
• Comfort owning or governing internal AI tooling and agentic workflows
• Excellent people management skills
• Ability to communicate complex technical topics to C-level stakeholders and non-technical audiences
• Practical experience with security incident response and threat modelling
• Comfortable operating in a fully remote, async-first, globally distributed environment
• Strong organisational and prioritisation skills

Nice to have

• Experience in the blockchain / Web3 / crypto ecosystem
• Familiarity with multi-cloud and hybrid architectures (AWS, OVH) at scale
• Experience running self-hosted / sovereign infrastructure over off-the-shelf SaaS
• Background in productising internal platforms
• Hands-on experience with FinOps tooling and large-scale cost optimisation
• Track record building or governing AI/ML and agent infrastructure

Benefits

• Remote-first culture
• Global and Diverse Workforce
• Learning and Development
• Access to training, mentorship, and open-source initiatives
• Opportunities to attend global events and conferences
• Collaborative and Innovative Culture
• Unlimited Time Off
• Equity participation

About the company

Nethermind builds and secures core Ethereum infrastructure. They develop the Nethermind execution client and deliver protocol-level work across rollups, zero-knowledge systems, and cross-chain architecture.