Head of IT
Verda (formerly DataCrunch) is a Helsinki-headquartered full-stack AI cloud provider offering on-demand GPU compute, self-service clusters, serverless containers, storage, and inference infrastructure.
Funding history
About Verda
Founded in Helsinki in 2020, Verda operates European AI cloud infrastructure across physical data centers, hardware, a cloud platform, and AI research. DataCrunch renamed to Verda in November 2025 without changing its service offering.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will lead the internal IT function end to end. You will build and operate secure, scalable corporate technology; manage identity, devices, SaaS, infrastructure, vendors, and IT controls; and provide technical risk recommendations to leadership.
Requirements
- Ability to own an IT function or significant IT environment end to end
- Identity and access management
- Endpoint management
- SaaS
- Networking
- IT infrastructure
- IT security
- Access control
- Authentication
- Device security
- Operational risk
- IT controls
- Vendor management
- Stakeholder management
- Experience supporting international or distributed organizations
Responsibilities
- Own the internal corporate IT strategy and operating model
- Build and operate a secure, reliable, scalable internal IT environment
- Manage identity and access, endpoints, devices, and core SaaS systems
- Maintain IT policies, standards, controls, and operational processes
- Manage onboarding, offboarding, device lifecycle, and employee IT processes
- Partner with Security and Compliance on controls and requirements
- Remediate IT risks and control gaps
- Establish backup, recovery, business continuity, and disaster recovery processes
- Select, implement, and manage critical IT systems
- Manage IT vendors, contracts, procurement, and performance
- Escalate complex IT incidents and failures
- Provide technical recommendations and risk assessments to leadership
- Evaluate the technology stack and remove unnecessary complexity