IT Lead - Europe

Sporty Group
Charing Cross, United Kingdom
4 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior
Compensation
£ 71K

Job location

Remote
Charing Cross, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Microsoft Windows
JIRA
Software as a Service
Linux
Information Technology Operations
Microsoft Office
Networking Basics
Microsoft InTune
Gsuite

Job description

Lead end user IT operations across EMEA. Own service quality, asset lifecycle, and operational readiness. Run a reliable remote support model that integrates with the global follow-the-sun IT setup.

What You'll Be Doing

  • Own EMEA IT service delivery. Drive intake, triage, escalation, and closure with clear user updates.
  • Lead and coordinate a distributed support model. Manage remote IT engineers and MSPs with clear routines and accountability.
  • Act as the escalation point for complex incidents. Drive root cause and reduce repeat issues.
  • Own endpoint hygiene across EMEA. Ensure provisioning, device compliance, patching, and baseline security controls follow global standards.
  • Own identity and access execution for IT operations. Ensure joiners, movers, and leavers are handled cleanly and on time.
  • Own EMEA asset lifecycle. Procure, ship, track, recover, and audit devices and peripherals, maintain accurate inventory and custody.
  • Run EMEA operating cadence. Weekly backlog reviews, SLA tracking, and continuous improvement plans.
  • Coordinate office readiness where applicable. Cover connectivity basics, meeting room equipment, and local vendor support.
  • Support European and African realities. Handle logistics constraints, local sourcing, and higher-latency environments with practical workarounds.
  • Maintain runbooks and documentation for EMEA and Africa processes and recurring incident patterns.

Requirements

  • 5+ years in corporate IT operations or end user computing.
  • Experience leading or coordinating a remote team, including vendors or MSPs.
  • Strong experience operating across EMEA, with preference for direct Africa coverage.
  • Strong endpoint management across macOS and Windows at scale, Linux a plus.
  • Solid identity and access fundamentals, MFA, least privilege, secure provisioning.
  • Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis, able to stabilize noisy environments.
  • Strong written and spoken English, clear stakeholder communication.
  • Comfortable working across time zones and coordinating with global IT and Security.

Nice To Have Experience

You do not need all of these, but they help.

  • Endpoint management and MDM, Intune preferred.
  • ITSM tooling, Jira Service Management or equivalent.
  • Google Workspace and core SaaS administration.
  • Collaboration tooling, Slack.
  • Office networking basics, Ubiquiti or Mikrotik useful.

Benefits & conditions

  • A competitive salary + individual performance based bonuses every quarter
  • 28 days paid annual leave
  • Referral bonuses & flash bonuses
  • Top of the line equipment
  • Annual company retreats to provide great internal networking opportunities

Interview Process

  • Remote video screening with our Talent Acquisition Team
  • Home assignment created by the team
  • Remote video interview with Team Members (60 Mins)
  • Final discussion with the hiring manager (60 mins)

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