System Engineering Team Lead

Duties and responsibilities

Leadership & Team Development

• Lead, mentor, and grow a distributed system engineering team across Europe
• Drive workforce planning, skills development, and team resilience
• Ensure effective on-call coordination and operational readiness

Service & Infrastructure Ownership

• Own end-to-end delivery of core IT services (virtualization, Active Directory, backup, etc.)
• Ensure high availability, stability, and performance across all systems
• Take full ownership of Windows and Linux server environments

Platforms & Architecture

• Oversee VMware, Proxmox, and Kubernetes platforms (availability, capacity, performance)
• Drive infrastructure design and lifecycle strategies aligned with business needs
• Contribute to long-term architecture and modernization initiatives

Operations & Continuous Improvement

• Lead incident management and act as escalation point for critical issues
• Ensure proactive monitoring, risk detection, and operational excellence
• Drive automation, standardization, and Infrastructure-as-Code adoption

Resilience, Security & Compliance

• Define and enforce backup, disaster recovery, and resilience strategies
• Ensure compliance with security policies, audits, and regulatory requirements
• Lead remediation and continuous improvement from audit findings

Governance & Efficiency

• Own change, maintenance, and release processes in a global environment
• Manage infrastructure cost efficiency (PEX/OPEX transparency & optimization)
• Oversee asset lifecycle, licensing, and documentation standards

Collaboration & Stakeholder Management

• Work closely with Network, Security, and Application teams internationally
• Provide clear communication and documentation for technical and business stakeholders

Required Qualifications, Experience & Competencies

Professional Experience & Skills

• 7+ years of experience in system engineering / IT infrastructure
• Proven leadership or senior-level responsibility in complex environments
• Degree in Computer Science or similar (or equivalent experience)
• Strong expertise in Windows environments (Active Directory, Windows Server)
• Hands-on experience with virtualization platforms (VMware, Proxmox)
• Good knowledge of Linux systems
• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure and/or AWS), ideally hybrid setups
• Solid understanding of monitoring, alerting, and operational thresholds
• Strong experience with Jira & Confluence (incident management, documentation)
• Expertise in automation and scripting is a plus
• Structured, documentation-driven and audit-ready minds
• Strong leadership and people development skills
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management
• Analytical, proactive, and solution-oriented approach
• Focus on resilience, efficiency, and continuous improvement
• Fluent English and Hungarian (written and spoken)
• Willingness to travel internationally (10–20%)

We are offering 

• Professional challenges, inspiring, diverse tasks
• Learning path on new technologies 
• Multiculture environment
• Flexible working hours and home office days
• Relaxed atmosphere, steady, supportive international team
• Easily accessible modern office with good infrastructure
• Complimentary coffee, fruit and snacks