IT Lead

We’re looking for an IT Lead to join our award winning team conveniently located in Mid Valley City, Kuala Lumpur. 

As an IT Lead at Double Eleven, you’ll own the delivery of secure, reliable, and efficient IT services, supporting our office teams and remote workers. You’ll manage end-user support, infrastructure, and security systems, work closely with engineering and leadership, and ensure IT policies and processes balance security with practical day-to-day use. You’ll lead incident response, manage vendors, and continuously improve systems to reduce risk, drive efficiency, and enable the whole studio to thrive.

Double Eleven is one of the largest independent video games developers and publishers in the UK. Headquartered in Middlesbrough, we employ over 400 people across our UK and Kuala Lumpur studios.

We are incredibly proud to partner with some of the world’s leading developers and publishers, including Rockstar Games, Obsidian Entertainment, Mojang, Bethesda Game Studios and Facepunch. 

As a global games company, we've collaborated to create new worlds in The Outer Worlds 2, helped deliver unforgettable experiences for players of Red Dead Redemption, enabled millions to battle in Rust Console Edition and created new adventures in Fallout 76. 

Double Eleven is more than a place to work, we are deeply values-driven in all that we do and we know that we are at our best when our people feel fulfilled. We offer flexible working hours to allow you to truly enjoy work/life balance and always strive to deliver a workplace experience like no other.  We regularly bring our people together to connect and have fun through our many different events, parties and hobby-based clubs.

What you’ll be doing

• Lead the secure, reliable and efficient delivery of IT services across Double Eleven, supporting a Middlesbrough HQ and Kuala Lumpur studio alongside our remote workers
• Oversee end-user IT support, including device management and onboarding/offboarding processes
• Maintain and support core infrastructure, productivity platforms, and systems used across business and engineering teams
• Ensure effective identity and access management, alongside robust security controls across company systems
• Own and manage endpoint security, contributing to incident response when required
• Support engineering workflows by maintaining access, tooling, and governance across source control and build systems
• Contribute to incident management, operational resilience, and disaster recovery planning
• Build and manage relationships with IT vendors and third-party service providers
• Work closely with Engineering and Studio Leadership to ensure IT services are stable, secure, and scalable
• Implement and maintain IT policies, governance, and operational processes that enable secure, effective day-to-day operations
• Continuously identify opportunities to improve systems, reduce risk, and enhance service delivery

What we’re looking for

• Proven experience managing IT operations within a modern, security-focused environment
• Experience leading and developing people, with the ability to support, guide, and grow a team
• Strong knowledge of identity and access management (IAM), including least privilege, MFA, and SSO (e.g. Google Workspace, Microsoft 365)
• Hands-on experience with endpoint security and EDR platforms 
• Familiarity with virtualisation technologies (e.g. XCP-ng or similar)
• Experience working with containerised environments such as Docker
• Understanding of Git-based source control systems and developer tooling
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and build environments
• A practical, security-first mindset, able to reduce risk without blocking delivery
• Strong sense of ownership, proactively identifying gaps, improve systems, and follow through to completion
• Clear and transparent communicator, particularly during incidents and periods of change
• Confident handling of IT incidents, with structured and calm approaches to investigation and resolution
• Collaborative approach, ability to work effectively with both engineering and non-technical teams
• Ability to design and implement pragmatic IT processes and governance that translate policy into day-to-day operations

 Qualifications

•  All relevant qualifications considered

What to expect

Some of our benefits include:

Working life at Double Eleven 

• Start your day any time between 9:00am and 11:00am
• 35 working hours per week with a 1 hour lunch break (with the opportunity to flex down to 30 minutes or up to 2 hours)
• 14 days annual leave + holidays gazetted by the Federal Government of Malaysia (where holidays fall on a weekend, you’ll receive either the Monday or Friday as extra holiday!) 
• 1 day leave for your birthday
• Up to 10 days discretionary annual leave during our end of year break
• 1 day leave if you’re moving house
• Potential for annual performance bonus
• Best-in-class tools and workflow so you can focus on creativity
• 3 additional days annual leave for 5 years service and a further 3 days annual leave for your 10 years service milestone
• State of the art office facilities in an central location with excellent transport routes
• Assorted fruit and bread options, juice, hot drinks and fruit
• Employee referral bonus (up to MYR5,000!)
• Free game codes, game swag and merchandise
• On site parking expensed 

Professional development and wellbeing

• Free gym membership at a local gym in Mid Valley 
• Company private healthcare cover in-patient and out-patient for you, your spouse and children
• Access to mental health and wellbeing support via Plumm (includes 4 free video therapy sessions per month for both the employee and up to 3 family members aged 18+), unlimited text therapy, courses, meditations
• A personalised development plan with dedicated support tailored to your growth and goals
• An accredited Academy providing professional qualifications
• In-studio wellbeing programmes and People team support

Team life 

• Subsidised off-site team activities 
• Many team events to celebrate team and game milestones
• Sponsored team activities
• Opportunity to contribute to our internal Employee Diversity and Equality Network

Ways to reach 

If you have a general query or if you need support with your application and/or an alternative way to apply, please do not hesitate to contact our Talent team at jobs@double11.com