IT Team Leader

Get to know us better

CodiLime is a software and network engineering industry expert and the first-choice service partner for top global networking hardware providers, software providers and telecoms. We create proofs-of-concept, help our clients build new products, nurture existing ones and provide services in production environments. Our clients include both tech startups and big players in various industries and geographic locations (US, Japan, Israel, Europe).

While no longer a startup - we have 300+ people on board and have been operating since 2011 we’ve kept our people-oriented culture. Our values are simple:

• Act to deliver.
• Disrupt to grow.
• Team up to win.

The project and the team

We are the IT Administration team at CodiLime, our goal is to ensure uninterrupted and trouble-free operation of all other departments in the company. We serve as a support organization at all levels: from the technical organization of events to the management and supervision of virtual and physical servers and networks. The reliability of the company's services depends on our work, which is why we want to be ahead of all challenges with a can-do attitude.

Things to know about the team and your responsibilities:

• The team consists of 4 people who support the Warsaw office, Gdansk office and remote users
• We provide IT support for 300+ employees using Jira Service Management
• We maintain hundreds of virtual machines on-premises and in the cloud (AWS, GCP and) and dozens of bare metal servers
• We maintain the company network, internal services and VPN tunnels between locations
• We set up labs and learn new technologies on a regular basis
• We automate things with Chef, Python scripts and Jenkins
• We work closely with the InfoSec team and Office Administration team

Your role

As an IT Team Leader, you will be responsible for:

• Holistic grasp of all business processes and the ability to understand its impact on IT
• Having a broad technological perspective on organization: anticipating risks, foreseeing potential gaps and problems to ensure business continuity
• Proactively collecting and responding to the organization's needs with a can-do attitude
• Proposing and implementing solutions according to business requirements
• Maintaining and monitoring internal networks and hosts
• Budgeting for IT needs, invoicing
• Close collaboration with functional and business units at CodiLime
• Negotiating contract terms with vendors
• Working hands-on and, managing the IT Administration team with the following main responsibilities:
• Maintaining internal services and setting up new ones
• Handling of user requests
• Managing Linux machines
• Creating and maintaining IT documentation

Do we have a match

As an IT Team Leader, you must meet the following criteria:

• At least one year of experience working as an IT Team Leader
• Extensive knowledge of the latest and most effective industry solutions and striving to implement them
• Willingness to enter long-term cooperation 
• Working in line with company values #acttodeliver #teamuptowin #disrupttogrow
• Communicative level of English (B2+ level)
• Great communication skills, including communication with other managers and employees
• Flexibility to work with different technologies and strong problem-solving skills
• Experience in people development
• Experience in working with Atlassian products and Google Workspace
• At least four years of experience working as a System or Network Administrator
• Very good IT knowledge related to server and office equipment (desktop computers, servers, operating systems)
• Very good knowledge of server versions of Linux systems (Debian and/or RHEL based)
• Very good knowledge of operating systems and troubleshooting (desktop distributions of Linux/Windows/MacOS)
• Very good networking knowledge (related to office networks-enterprise wireless networks, client-server VPNs, site-to-site VPNs, 802.1Q, 801.1X)
• Good knowledge of at least one virtualization management system or cloud (Proxmox, VMware, Hyper-V, oVirt, AWS, GCP or Azure)
• Ability to write scripts (Python or Bash) and to automate (Ansible/Puppet/Chef/Jenkins)

In addition to the criteria above, we would appreciate:

• Experience in working with Junos OS (EX, SRX) 
• Experience in working with Ubiquiti devices
• Networking or system administration certification (JNCP/CCNP, CompTIA/RHCA)
• Good knowledge of Google Apps Scripts

More reasons to join us

• Flexible working hours, work mainly from the Warsaw office with the possibility of remote work
• Professional growth supported by internal training sessions and training budget
• Solid onboarding with a hands-on approach to give you an easy start
• A great atmosphere among professionals who are passionate about their work