ICT Specialist

Employer: Easpring Finland New Materials Oy

Location at the start of employment: Kotka, Finland (on-site)

Easpring Finland is developing a battery materials plant in Kotka to meet the growing demand for battery materials in Europe. The

plant will produce cathode active materials required for electric vehicle batteries.

We are looking for an experienced ICT professional to support the growth of our organization and help build a secure, reliable,

and scalable ICT environment during the company's ramp-up phase.

As an ICT Specialist, you will have a key role in building, operating, and continuously developing Easpring Finland's ICT

environment. You will work closely with the CISO / IT Manager and external ICT partners to establish and maintain the company's

network, server, workstation, identity, cloud, and infrastructure services.

This is a hands-on role with broad responsibility. You will not be limited to one narrow technology area. Instead, you will help

ensure that the ICT environment works as a reliable whole, supporting office users, production-related functions, partners, and

future business growth.

The role offers an excellent opportunity to participate in building a modern hybrid Microsoft-based infrastructure from the ground

up, including local network and server services, Microsoft cloud integration, workstation management, backup, monitoring,

documentation, lifecycle management, and operational ICT processes.

This role is ideal for a practical ICT professional who has 3 - 5 years of experience with networks, servers, infrastructure

services, and day-to-day ICT operations, and who is ready to take ownership of maintaining and improving a growing industrial ICT

environment.

• Maintain network infrastructure including switches, firewalls, wireless networks, VLANs, routing, VPN connections, and network

security controls in co-operation with our ICT partners

• Support Microsoft-based infrastructure services such as Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft 365, Intune, DNS, DHCP,

file services, print services, and workstation management

• Participate in the planning, implementation, and maintenance of secure network segmentation, server environments, backup

solutions, monitoring, and logging

• Support lifecycle management of ICT assets, including hardware, software, licenses, certificates, network devices, servers,

workstations, printers, and related services

• Maintain ICT documentation, including network diagrams, inventories, configuration records, operational procedures, runbooks,

and recovery instructions

• Contribute to patching, vulnerability management, access management, information security controls, and technical hardening

activities

• Suitable education in Information Technology, Telecommunications, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical

experience

• Several years of hands-on experience in ICT infrastructure, network administration, systems administration, or a similar

technical role

• Good understanding of network technologies, including TCP/IP, VLANs, switching, routing, firewalls, wireless networks, VPNs,

and network troubleshooting

• Experience with Windows Server environments and common infrastructure services such as Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, file

services, print services, backup, monitoring, and patching

• Understanding of ICT lifecycle management, including asset management, updates, renewals, configuration documentation, and

service continuity

• Basic understanding of information security principles, including access control, least privilege, patching, backup,

monitoring, vulnerability management, and secure configuration

• Strong communication and cooperation skills with the ability to work with users, managers, technical partners, and

international stakeholders