System Admin M-Pesa IT Infrastructure 1

Location: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; hybrid working is offered.

Company

hirify.global is a telecommunications company operating across Europe and Africa, investing in technologies that support customers, businesses, and digital financial services.

What you will do

• Manage and maintain M-Pesa infrastructure platforms supporting critical digital financial systems.
• Operate infrastructure with a focus on high availability, stability, monitoring, and operational readiness.
• Manage operating-system lifecycles, vulnerabilities, changes, releases, incidents, and problems.
• Maintain disaster recovery and business continuity readiness, including active-active high-availability implementations.
• Support access security, infrastructure compliance, infrastructure projects, and operational support services.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, Telecommunications Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technology field.
• At least 3–5 years of IT infrastructure administration experience in a large enterprise, telecommunications, financial services, fintech, or mission-critical environment; at least 3+ years must be in IT system infrastructure administration.
• Hands-on administration of Linux, specifically Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Windows Server.
• Experience with infrastructure operations, incident and problem management, disaster recovery and business continuity, change and release management, and infrastructure security and compliance.
• Experience with VMware virtualization, storage administration, private and public cloud technologies, VMware Tanzu, Kubernetes, Docker, and container administration.
• Experience administering Red Hat OpenShift and knowledge of HP, Dell, and Oracle hardware.
• Knowledge of payment gateways.

Nice to have

• RHCSA or RHCE certification.
• VMware Certified Professional (VCP) certification.
• CKA or CKAD certification.
• Microsoft Certified: Windows Server or Azure Administration certification.
• ITIL Foundation certification.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working with the option to work from home and collaborate in office spaces.
• Generous parental and adoption leave.
• Four Spirit Days per year for personal development and wellbeing.
• Market-competitive pay, benefits, bonuses or commissions, and recognition schemes.
• Wellbeing guidance and services, wellbeing ambassadors, and mental health first-aiders.
• Inclusive employment policies supporting equality, diversity, and belonging.