IT Manager

It’s a really exciting time to be at Space Ape Games. We’ve created a fast-paced environment that promotes genuine autonomy and we have projects at all stages of the development cycle. We launched our hit music game, Beatstar, in 2021 and we’re following its success with Countrystar less than two years later. We also officially launched our first puzzle game in July, Chrome Valley Customs, and we’re preparing to scale this game to global success. On top of all this, we’re running several mature live games and working on some exciting new projects behind the scenes!

We are looking for an IT Manager to help us scale our technology so that what worked for a tiny Soho startup can carry on working as we grow. We’ve got a passion for making sure everyone at Space Ape has what they need to build world class games and whether it’s making sure the foosball table has perfect wifi or building a strategy around authentication and identity; we’re after someone who can be as passionate about all aspects of IT as we all are about making games. This role will be reporting directly into our Head of IT whilst mentoring our IT Engineer.

Responsibilities

• Take on and help mature the Space Ape IT function to the highest standards
• Improve the technology we’re using, improve supportability and enable self-service wherever it can be.
• Understand new requirements from our teams and create plans to deliver against them.
• Predict pinch points in our growth and put in place plans to prevent them from hurting us.
• Take ownership of day-to-day IT operations tasks and oversee our IT Engineer.
• Manage intra and inter-office moves and other large projects.
• Manage suppliers so they do the best work possible for us.
• Align IT’s quarterly objectives with the business and report on them to the company.

Technologies

• Apple Macs with some high-spec Windows 3D workstations
• Google Apps for Business
• Jira & Confluence OnDemand
• Git
• Egnyte, Dropbox
• Adobe Creative Cloud
• Autodesk Maya
• Audio-visual and conference equipment
• Ruckus Wifi
• Cloud-based IP Telephony
• Synology NASs

Requirements

• Experience maintaining and improving an office infrastructure
• Experience managing Cloud/SaaS systems for a company
• Experience delivering on IT requirements across a range of technologies
• Hands-on experience configuring and managing a range of technology to a high standard
• Excellent communication skills and attitude

Why Space Ape is right for you

• Be a part of one of several small empowered teams who inspire and challenge one another in the pursuit of our mission
• Autonomy to make your own impact with the support to help it happen
• Designated ‘Ape Space’ creative time where you are free to work on game concepts and ideas away from your day to day
• The freedom to further your skill set the way you want with a generous training budget
• An award winning studio that has been crowned one of the best places to work, for the last 6 years in a row!
• Help run and create games which bring joy to millions of players all over the world
• 5* Glassdoor rating - Check out our reviews
• Entered a long-term strategic partnership with Supercell in 2017
• Competitive salary & stock options

About Space Ape

Space Ape is an award winning mobile game studio in Central London and founded in 2012. Since then our five games have been played by over 170m people, generated half a billion in revenue but we're just getting started. We are around 150 employees, from 30 different nationalities and diverse backgrounds united in a mission to make the world's next great game. In 2017 we partnered with Supercell (makers of Clash of Clans etc and part of Tencent) by way of majority acquisition.

Space Ape was voted Best Game Developer, and Beatstar Game of the Year in the 2022 Pocket Gamer Mobile Game Awards in BAFTA London (April 2022). Its game lead Charmie Kim won Best Newcomer at the DEVELOP Awards (July 2022), and it was short listed as one of Google Play User Choice Awards (Dec 2021). Space Ape won Mobile Developer of the Year in the Pocket Gamer Awards (2023).