Your mission
We are looking for an experienced and people-oriented
System Engineering Team Lead to lead our European system engineering team and take ownership of our core IT infrastructure services. The position is based in
Budapest with a hybrid work schedule (2 days teleworking).
In this role, you will combine
technical leadership with strategic ownership, ensuring the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of critical platforms across a hybrid IT environment.
Your profile
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%)
Why us?
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
