IT Specialist - #722433
Rocket Science Group
Date: 2 weeks ago
City: Cardiff, Wales
Contract type: Full time
The Rocket Science Group is a co-development game studio specializing in multiplayer, platform services, publishing technology, and live operations for PC, console, and mobile titles. We have teams in Europe and North America and work in partnership with the game industry’s top creators.
About the Role:
We’re looking for an IT Specialist to join our hardworking team and help us scale our internal operations! In this role, you’ll draw upon your past experience to help us plan and roll out an IT strategy capable of supporting our growing organization across two continents. You’ll work alongside our larger Workplace Team to ensure that our engineers have the equipment and tools they need to develop some of the biggest games in the world.
You’ll also have the opportunity to not only work directly with our partners to meet the needs of individual projects, but also learn from other teams in the company as they create and maintain video game tools and platforms. And while we don’t require prior game company experience for this role, our ideal candidates will still possess a passion for gaming!
This is a hybrid role to be based in Cardiff, UK.
What You’ll Do:
To let us do the work for you: Even if your profile isn't an exact match for all of the qualifications listed above, we still want you to apply. Our team members come from a variety of different industries, not all of which are immediately relevant to game or software development, and we welcome all candidates of similarly varied backgrounds, communities, and identities.
Rocket Science is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing a worry-free workplace void of discrimination or harassment. Rocket Scientists are expected to foster and champion an environment in which everyone has the opportunity to feel included and is afforded the respect and dignity they deserve.
We recruit, hire, employ, train, promote, and compensate individuals based on job-related qualifications and abilities. Rocket Science has a commitment to providing a work environment that respects the dignity and worth of each individual and is free from all forms of employment discrimination and harassment of any protected class protected by law.
Rocket Science does not accept unsolicited résumés from recruiters, employment agencies, or staffing firms. To conduct business with Rocket Science, a Master Services Agreement (MSA) must be executed and confirmed prior to submitting any information relating to a potential candidate. Without a signed MSA, Rocket Science shall not be responsible to any individual or entity for any payment relating to any form of fee or compensation.
In the event that a résumé or candidate is submitted by a recruiter, an employment agency, or a staffing firm without a fully executed MSA, Rocket Science has the unrestricted right to pursue and hire any of those candidates without any legal or financial responsibility to the recruiter, agency, and/or firm.
About the Role:
We’re looking for an IT Specialist to join our hardworking team and help us scale our internal operations! In this role, you’ll draw upon your past experience to help us plan and roll out an IT strategy capable of supporting our growing organization across two continents. You’ll work alongside our larger Workplace Team to ensure that our engineers have the equipment and tools they need to develop some of the biggest games in the world.
You’ll also have the opportunity to not only work directly with our partners to meet the needs of individual projects, but also learn from other teams in the company as they create and maintain video game tools and platforms. And while we don’t require prior game company experience for this role, our ideal candidates will still possess a passion for gaming!
This is a hybrid role to be based in Cardiff, UK.
What You’ll Do:
- Define the IT standards for a fast-growing company.
- Support our teams’ desktop and laptop hardware and software.
- Establish and maintain a secure distributed computing environment.
- Run security audit processes with provided tooling.
- Improve our single sign-on system.
- Support software development tools.
- Procurement of IT services and equipment.
- Install and manage conference solutions.
- Create self-service documentation.
- Strong communicator who can translate the needs of technical and non-technical teams.
- Ability to understand the needs of our teams’ evolving requirements.
- Proven proficiency in supporting IT infrastructure.
- Passion for solving hardware and software problems.
- Experience in running and supporting office networks.
- Openness to taking on new challenges and the flexibility to adapt to them.
- History working with cloud platforms.
- Knowledge of automation and scripting languages.
- Experience with Mobile Device Management (MDM) solutions.
- Experience managing online business collaboration tools.
To let us do the work for you: Even if your profile isn't an exact match for all of the qualifications listed above, we still want you to apply. Our team members come from a variety of different industries, not all of which are immediately relevant to game or software development, and we welcome all candidates of similarly varied backgrounds, communities, and identities.
Rocket Science is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing a worry-free workplace void of discrimination or harassment. Rocket Scientists are expected to foster and champion an environment in which everyone has the opportunity to feel included and is afforded the respect and dignity they deserve.
We recruit, hire, employ, train, promote, and compensate individuals based on job-related qualifications and abilities. Rocket Science has a commitment to providing a work environment that respects the dignity and worth of each individual and is free from all forms of employment discrimination and harassment of any protected class protected by law.
Rocket Science does not accept unsolicited résumés from recruiters, employment agencies, or staffing firms. To conduct business with Rocket Science, a Master Services Agreement (MSA) must be executed and confirmed prior to submitting any information relating to a potential candidate. Without a signed MSA, Rocket Science shall not be responsible to any individual or entity for any payment relating to any form of fee or compensation.
In the event that a résumé or candidate is submitted by a recruiter, an employment agency, or a staffing firm without a fully executed MSA, Rocket Science has the unrestricted right to pursue and hire any of those candidates without any legal or financial responsibility to the recruiter, agency, and/or firm.
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