IT Team Lead

We're growing our IT department and looking for a Senior IT Engineer with team leadership experience to lead our three-person IT team and help the department scale. Leadership will be the primary focus of this role, supported by complementary specialist work on the most demanding technical challenges. You'll shape department strategy and represent IT to upper management.You'll have significant independence and influence over the direction of the department - this is a role for someone who wants to build a team and a function, not just maintain one.This position is primarily based in the office. Up to two days of remote work per week are available.

Responsibilities:

Leadership & Strategy:

Lead and grow the IT team, including mentoring and developing other engineers and specialists.
Shape IT department strategy, roadmap, and priorities in collaboration with upper management.
Act as the primary point of contact between IT and company leadership, translating business needs into technical plans and communicating IT risks/priorities upward.
Own department-level decisions on tooling, policy, and process, balancing short-term support needs with long-term infrastructure health.
Provide backup and redundancy on critical systems and decisions, ensuring no single point of failure in the department.
Plan resourcing, hiring, and skill development within the IT team as it grows.

Technical & Specialist Work:

Serve as a senior technical escalation point for the most complex infrastructure, security, and support issues.
Expertise in administration, synchronization, and integration of identities in hybrid Active Directory and Entra ID (Azure AD) environments.
Design, implement, and maintain security pipelines, disaster recovery plans, backup strategy, and vulnerability analysis.
Configure and secure hybrid and internet-facing services using modern authentication and security best practices.
Lead security and compliance audits of internal and third-party IT infrastructure.
Monitor, administer, and optimize company network infrastructure (switches, VPNs, LAN/WiFi).
Oversee hardware onboarding, workstation configuration, and asset management standards across the company.
Support technical events (streaming, recording, cameras, microphones, sound) as needed, and ensure the team can cover this independently.

Requirements:

• Experience: At least 4 years of experience leading an IT team or department, backed by additional 4 years of hands-on experience at a senior or expert level across IT infrastructure, security, and support. You should have the technical depth to be a credible mentor to the rest of the team.

• Stakeholder management: demonstrated ability to work directly with upper management/executives - presenting plans, negotiating priorities, and communicating technical risk in business terms.

• Generalist mindset with specialist depth: comfortable across a wide range of IT support, infrastructure, and operations tasks, with genuine expertise in at least one core area (identity/security/networking).

• Strong communication: able to explain technical topics clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Self-organization & ownership: highly responsible and reliable; manages competing priorities across strategic and hands-on work independently.

• Technical expertise:

Hybrid Active Directory and Entra ID (Azure AD) administration, synchronization, and integration.
Configuring and securing hybrid/internet-facing services with modern authentication and security best practices.
Security and compliance auditing of internal and third-party IT infrastructure.
IT security best practices, standards, and policy design and implementation.
Administration and monitoring of wired and wireless network infrastructure.
Solid IT support, hardware setup, and troubleshooting experience (Windows and ideally Linux).
Scripting for task and process automation (e.g., PowerShell, Python).
Experience with user management, ticketing system and IT assets tracking tools (ideally Jira Service Management).
(Nice to have) Familiarity with game development environments, workflows, and tools.

• Languages:Polish: C1English: C1

We offer:

Monthly salary starting from 12,500 PLN gross (Contract of Employment).
Flexible work hours: core hours 10:00 - 15:00.
Office-first hybrid work model: three days in the office, with up to two days of remote work available per week.
Private healthcare and life insurance.
Co-financed Multisport card.
English lessons.
Relocation assistance (optional).
No crunch, no non-compete policy.
Pet-friendly office.
Co-financed participation in conferences and workshops.
A genuine opportunity to shape and grow an IT department from a leadership position.

Submission / Portfolio Instructions:

CV is required.
Cover letter is optional. If you include one, a short note about how you've approached leading a team or working with leadership would be welcome.