Job Description
Company Description
Do you want to contribute to projects shaping the future of energy in the Baltics and beyond? Ignitis Group shared service center is a part of the Ignitis Group – a renewables-focused integrated utility. Our purpose is to create a 100% green and secure energy ecosystem for current and future generations.
The Centre boasts a diverse range of competencies that not only ensure the smooth operation of daily activities across the Group but also support the energy transition in the Baltic Sea region. We are involved with all the Group’s products, from solar parks to electric vehicle charging stations. Given the scope and variety of projects, our team includes specialists in multiple disciplines, such as law, IT, HR, communications, procurement, and more. Every colleague, regardless of their area of expertise, contributes to the development of energy independence in Lithuania and beyond, extending to neighboring countries.
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Job Description
We are looking for an experienced Infrastructure Architect to join the IT Architects team and play a key role in defining and governing the group-wide enterprise infrastructure architecture strategy, ensuring secure, resilient, cost-efficient, and highly automated infrastructure platforms across Ignitis Group IT landscape. As a critical player in the energy sector, we place strong emphasis on cyber resilience, operational reliability services that support our strategic commitment to customers and national infrastructure continuity.
Take YOUR part in #EnergySmart!
You will contribute to the creation of a green and secure energy ecosystem by:
- Defining and leading the enterprise infrastructure architecture strategy, standards, and roadmap across hybrid on-premises and cloud environments
- Defining secure-by-design infrastructure and security architecture principles ensuring cyber resilience, operational continuity, regulatory compliance, and trusted digital services across critical energy infrastructure
- Driving the transition from traditional infrastructure to modern containerized and cloud-native platforms, establishing secure, scalable, and resilient architecture patterns
- Defining and governing infrastructure security, platform engineering, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automation, and observability standards, including Zero Trust, IAM, segmentation, hardening, vulnerability management, monitoring, and platform protection controls
- Establishing resilient architecture patterns for high availability, disaster recovery, backup, incident response, and operational resilience
- Partnering with engineering, DevOps, SRE, OT, and cyber security teams to ensure infrastructure platforms enable secure, reliable, and efficient product delivery
- Defining reusable infrastructure patterns, governance, and best practices to ensure standardization, scalability, interoperability, cyber resilience, and cost-efficient infrastructure operations across the organization
- Providing architectural leadership during critical incidents, infrastructure transformation initiatives, and resilience improvement programs, including hands-on technical validations and deep-dive reviews when required
Qualifications
- 8+ years of progressive experience transitioning from hands-on infrastructure engineering into enterprise infrastructure architecture
- Strong expertise in infrastructure architecture across hybrid on-premises and cloud environments, including networking, virtualization, containers, cloud-native platforms, and automation tools, such as Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD, monitoring, and observability platforms
- Strong knowledge of infrastructure security architecture, governance, operational resilience, and compliance frameworks (e.g. ISO 27001, NIS2, IAM, Zero Trust)
- Understanding of Operational Technology (OT) environments and IT/OT integration principles, including cyber resilience, network segmentation, secure access, and operational continuity requirements within critical infrastructure environments
- Experience designing resilient, scalable, and highly available infrastructure platforms supporting critical or large-scale enterprise environments
- Ability to influence and align stakeholders, even without formal authority, ensuring infrastructure and cyber resilience initiatives result in practical implementation rather than theoretical concepts
- Strong sense of ownership and a proactive problem-solving mindset
- Fluency in English language (both speaking and writing)
Additional Information
- A package of additional benefits to choose from: pension accumulation, health insurance, or another benefit from the selectable benefits list in the MELP application
- Additional paid days for health improvement, short-term illness, volunteering, and accumulated work experience
- A hybrid work model (3+2) and flexible working hours
- Internal career opportunities
- Extensive learning and qualification enhancement programs
- Mentorship-based culture designed to facilitate meaningful and value-driven work
- Take part in an unfolding energy transformation process to create a 100% green and secure energy ecosystem for both current and future generations
Join a growing and increasingly international team of energy smart people united by a common purpose. We all play our part in creating a 100% green and secure energy ecosystem for current and future generations.
And the way to achieve this is certainly not to wait for the perfect moment. We believe that the power to act comes from the charge we bring to our work every day. United by purpose. Owning the challenge. Passion for reinvention. Pursuing excellence. These are our mindsets. Together, they yield the energy that drives everything we do. The energy generated by our choices. If you are guided by the same mindsets – we look forward to welcoming you to our team!
As we pursue our strategic goals to increase gender balance in Ignitis Group, we are indicating “f/m/d” next to job titles, meaning we welcome candidates of all genders – female, male or diverse.
Ignitis Group ensures equal opportunities. We welcome all applicants and do not discriminate against race, religion, gender, sexual orientation or gender identity, age, disability or other personal traits unrelated to work obligations.
