IT Operations Specialist for Tarsier Studios

About the Role

Tarsier Studios is looking for an IT Operations Specialist to join our team in Malmö. In this role you will take ownership of our local IT environment ensuring that everything from developer tooling to office IT runs smoothly and efficiently.

You will work closely with developers external partners and our parent company (THQ) supporting a hybrid setup where some infrastructure is managed externally while you own the on-site experience. This is a hands-on broad role where no two days are the same combining user support infrastructure and continuous improvement.

Your focus will be on creating a stable fast and user-friendly IT environment that enables our teams to do their best work.

What Youll Do

• Provide hands-on support and troubleshooting for employee PCs equipment and office IT

• Set up maintain and monitor core systems supporting development and daily operations

• Ensure performance and stability of critical systems such as Perforce and build infrastructure

• Manage and support the office IT environment including meeting rooms and shared spaces

• Set up and configure hardware and software for new and existing employees

• Handle onboarding and offboarding including account provisioning and access management

• Maintain and support server infrastructure (Windows Server virtualization environments)

• Work with license management and vendor relationships that are not handled centrally

• Collaborate with external partners and group IT (THQ) on infrastructure and shared services

• Drive improvements automation and standardization to reduce reactive work

• Monitor systems troubleshoot issues and ensure a secure and reliable IT environment

What We Offer

At Tarsier its important that our office is welcoming and fun so that our employees enjoy being here because we believe that working closely with your team is the best way to make great games. That is why our Office Management and People & Culture-department work closely together to make our office a really great place to both work and hang out in. We have a large focus on ergonomic personal work stations we eat breakfast together on Wednesdays and we play games together in the game room. Sometimes we grab an after work beer together in the kitchen or throw a Christmas party for the ages.

Our Benefit Package Includes:

• Pension & insurances

• 30 days of vacation

• Overtime pay

• Flexible working hours

• Wellness contribution to use for gym memberships swimming crossfit bouldering dance classes massage and much more

• Healthier half hour - 30 minutes of your work day to spend on exercise

• Health Insurance - access to preventive health care such as physiotherapy occupational therapy counseling etc

• Sick pay on the qualifying day

• Relocation support

What Were Looking For

We are looking for someone who enjoys working broadly and close to users and who takes pride in creating a well-functioning IT environment.

You have:

• A background in IT operations within a Windows-based environment

• Experience working in software development environments and familiarity with version control systems such as Perforce (or similar)

• An interest in gaming or game development or experience from the gaming industry

• Solid knowledge of Windows Active Directory and PC environments

• Hands-on familiarity with server environments (e.g. Windows Server virtualization/hypervisors such as VMware ESXi or equivalent)

• Experience working with network architecture (e.g. VLANs segmentation IPSec VPN)

• Experience with backup solutions such as Veeam Backup & Replication including configuration and job monitoring

• Experience maintaining antivirus and other security software

• Familiarity with imaging and deployment tools (e.g. MDT or equivalent)

• Knowledge of scripting and automation preferably PowerShell

• Experience managing accounts and access rights

• Previous exposure to environments handling large files is a strong advantage

• You are:

• Service-minded and enjoy helping others

• Proactive and comfortable improving how things are done

• Flexible and able to handle a wide variety of tasks

• Structured and able to take ownership in a standalone role

• Comfortable collaborating with both local users and external stakeholders

Applicants must hold a Swedish or EU/EEA citizenship or valid work permit for Sweden as we are unfortunately unable to support relocation from outside the EU at the moment.

This position is onsite at the office in Malmö and will start with a probationary period.

Currently employing around 50 people Tarsier Studios is a game development studio based in the vibrant city of Malmö Sweden. We are the developers of award winning games Statik Little Nightmares and Little Nightmares 2 - as well as our latest release REANIMAL. At Tarsier its the games that drive us. Quality above all else. Interesting ideas executed to perfection. We want people to be proud of the work they do here and to finish each project feeling as though theyve pushed their abilities to the next level. That of course requires hard work and talent in equal measure and we look for both of those things when recruiting new team members.

We welcome applicants of all backgrounds and genders and look forward to hearing from you!