Head of IT Administration

Get to know us better

CodiLime is a software and network engineering industry expert and the firstchoice service partner for top global networking hardware providers software providers and telecoms. We create proofsofconcept 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 weve kept our peopleoriented culture. Our values are simple:

• Actto deliver.
• Disruptto grow.
• Team upto win.

The project and the team

We are the IT Administration team at CodiLime our goal is to ensure uninterrupted and troublefree 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 companys services depends on our work which is why we want to be ahead of all challenges with a cando 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 onpremises 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 the head of IT Administration team 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 organizations needs with a cando 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 handson 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 the Head of IT Administration you must meet the following criteria:

• At least one year of experience working as a Head of IT
• Extensive knowledge of the latest and most effective industry solutions and striving to implement them
• Willingness to enter longterm 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 problemsolving 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 networksenterprise wireless networks clientserver VPNs sitetosite VPNs 802.1Q 801.1X)
• Good knowledge of at least one virtualization management system or cloud (Proxmox VMware HyperV oVirt AWS GCP or Azure)
• Ability to write scripts (Python or Bash) and to automate (Ansible/Puppet/Chef/Jenkins)

More reasons to join us

• Flexible working hours and approach to work: fully remotely in the office or hybrid
• Professional growth supported by internal training sessions and a training budget
• Solid onboarding with a handson approach to give you an easy start
• A great atmosphere among professionals who are passionate about their work
• The ability to change the project you work on