IT Department Lead - Remote, Worldwide

Responsibilities

• ▹Lead and supervise the full Internal IT Department: Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Security, IAM and FinOps
• ▹Drive company-wide and team-level infrastructure initiatives, co-defining strategy and roadmap with the CIO
• ▹People management across the department: staffing, career guidance, performance reviews, raising the technical bar
• ▹Maintain clear, consistent communication with C-level executives and group leads, eliminating DevOps silos
• ▹Act as the primary point of contact for internal IT matters, staying in constant sync with the CIO on initiatives and resource allocation
• ▹Adapt AI technology to daily engineering and non-engineering working routines
• ▹Communicate with external clients when required, representing the department's capabilities
• ▹Continuously identify and implement improvements and optimisations in how the organisation works
• ▹Support hiring efforts: sourcing, interviewing, and evaluating candidates
• ▹Conduct monthly performance reviews using Rippling

Requirements

• ▹5+ years leading and scaling IT/infrastructure/platform engineering teams in a management role
• ▹Strong background in cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and DevOps/SRE practices
• ▹Strategic thinking with the ability to co-define and execute technical roadmaps
• ▹Hands-on understanding of infrastructure security, IAM, and FinOps disciplines
• ▹Experience translating compliance and audit requirements (e.g. SOC2, ISO 27001) into operational controls
• ▹Comfort owning or governing internal AI tooling and agentic workflows with a security-first mindset
• ▹Excellent people management skills: hiring, mentoring, career development, performance management
• ▹Ability to communicate complex technical topics clearly to C-level and non-technical audiences
• ▹Practical experience with security incident response and threat modelling, including supply-chain and adversarial/state-actor scenarios
• ▹Comfortable operating in a fully remote, async-first, globally distributed team

About the company

Nethermind builds and secures core Ethereum infrastructure: developing the Nethermind execution client, contributing to network upgrades, and delivering protocol-level work across rollups, zero-knowledge systems, and cross-chain architecture. Their security team audits smart contracts, ZK circuits, and off-chain components, with formal verification for critical systems. At the intersection of blockchain and AI, they are also developing hardware that anchors digital identity in verifiable biometrics with cryptographic privacy guarantees.