IT Technician
On site
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Full Time
04-04-2025
Job Specifications
Location: You'll be based in our Cambridge studio so being within a commutable distance is essential. If this requires you to relocate, we offer relocation assistance.
Level: Junior to Mid.
About us: Ninja Theory is a five-time BAFTA award winning games company based in Cambridge, UK, and part of Xbox Game Studios. Our diverse and welcoming team values collaboration, quality, and excellence. We strive to maintain an inclusive culture that empowers deep focus, rewards creativity, and supports personal and professional growth.
Our Mission is: To Craft Life-changing Art with Game-changing Tech and we are committed to bringing together the best talent in the industry help us fulfil that promise.
Our Values: Greatness through Excellence, Teamwork & Integrity.
Your Role: You'll work within our small in-house IT Team, helping to support our staff who are currently split between working from home and working from our Cambridge studio.
As an IT Technician, your primary responsibility will be to provide customer-focused first-line support within a Windows environment. You will answer Tier 1 helpdesk tickets, respond to user inquiries, and deliver IT support to our development staff, all in a hybrid working environment. You will play a crucial role in the deployment and maintenance of PC hardware and software for staff and new hires. You will also support the upkeep of our studio desktop environment, including PCs, development hardware, printers, and meeting room AV systems.
You will have the opportunity to get involved in project work with the wider IT team, and will gain exposure to cutting-edge technologies in networking, storage, and cloud infrastructure.
Requirements
We believe that skills and experience are not mutually exclusive. For that reason, we encourage you to apply even if you feel you don't meet 100% of the desirable requirements listed below.
Your Skill: You'll use your knowledge and skills to provide our development teams with the tools they need to craft life changing art and game changing tech. You will have:
Essential:
Experience of PC hardware and software fault diagnosis & troubleshooting
Technical knowledge of PC hardware - components, assembly, and troubleshooting
Technical knowledge of Windows 10/11 - installation, configuration, and support
Knowledge of networking fundamentals (LAN/WAN, VPN, Wireless, DNS, DHCP)
A customer service focused attitude, with a commitment to quality
Excellent problem-solving and organisational skills, with a focus on attention to detail
Ability to work to deadlines and manage multiple tasks simultaneously
Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
Desirable:
Familiarity with M365 applications and services (Office suite, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive)
Exposure to Azure services (Entra, Intune, Cloud infrastructure)
Experience with IT service management and documentation tools (e.g. Atlassian Jira, Confluence)
Experience supporting AV systems (meeting rooms, streaming)
Your Experience: A tech enthusiast driven by hands-on problem-solving and a passion for customer support. You will have previous workplace experience working in an IT support environment.
Essential:
Experience supporting desktop hardware and software in a Windows on-prem or hybrid business environment
Desirable:
Experience in a Tier 1 helpdesk customer-facing role
Benefits
Our Benefits: We offer wide-ranging benefits, including, but not limited to:
Flexible work model with no fixed working hours
5 weeks holiday plus 1 additional day for each year of service up to a maximum of 33 days per annum, plus bank holidays
Enhanced family leave
Bonus scheme
Annual wellbeing allowance
Private healthcare including medical, dental, and optical cover
Mentoring and career development
Income protection.
Life Insurance
Where applicable, relocation assistance and visa sponsorship.
Working from Ninja House, you will benefit from our custom-built studio which offers a luxurious setting with cutting-edge facilities at your fingertips, including full motion capture stage. You'll also receive complimentary catered lunch from our on-site pub, The Bird or Worm?
Our Process: To ensure a fair and inclusive hiring process which aligns to our studio equality, diversity and inclusion (ED&I) strategy, we use anonymised screening which automatically obscures personal identifying information from applications, helping to reduce unconscious bias from the start.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a BAFTA Award winning studio in the Xbox Game Studios Group and be part of pushing the boundaries of interactive entertainment.
Please note, this advert closes on Sunday 27th April.
About the Company
Ninja Theory Ltd. was formed in 2004 by four partners, including current Directors Nina Kristensen (Chief Development Director) and Tameem Antoniades (Chief Creative Director). We pride ourselves on striving for the highest production values, continually pushing the boundaries of technology, art and design to create evermore meaningful and memorable video game experiences. We're based in Cambridge, UK and are the creators of five-time BAFTA award-winning Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, the No.1 selling DmC: Devil May Cry, Dev... Know more
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