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Employer: Easpring Finland New Materials Oy Location at the start of employment: Kotka, Finland About Easpring Finland 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. Position Summary 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. Key Responsibilities Participate in building, operating, maintaining, and developing Easpring Finland's ICT infrastructure Support the implementation and administration of network, server, workstation, identity, and cloud services Maintain network infrastructure including switches, firewalls, wireless networks, VLANs, routing, VPN connections, and network security controls in co-operation with our ICT partners Administer server hardware, virtualization platforms, Windows Server environments, storage, and related infrastructure services 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 Handle incidents, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, reporting, and follow-up actions with our IT Manager Support lifecycle management of ICT assets, including hardware, software, licenses, certificates, network devices, servers, workstations, printers, and related services Coordinate and manage external ICT partners, suppliers, service providers, and support vendors with our IT Manager Maintain ICT documentation, including network diagrams, inventories, configuration records, operational procedures, runbooks, and recovery instructions Support backup, restore testing, disaster recovery readiness, and business continuity activities Contribute to patching, vulnerability management, access management, information security controls, and technical hardening activities Work closely with internal stakeholders to understand business needs and convert them into practical ICT solutions Support the continuous improvement of ICT processes, documentation, reporting, and operational quality Respond effectively to changing priorities in a growing industrial and manufacturing environment Requirements Suitable education in Information Technology, Telecommunications, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience Sever