M-Pesa Africa Senior Infrastructure Architect job at Safaricom
Full time @Safaricom PLC posted 3 months ago in IT/Telcom Shortlist Email JobJob Detail
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Job ID 1127
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Offered Salary 1000
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Career Level Others
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Experience 3 Years
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Gender Both
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Industry IT/Telcom
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Qualifications Degree Bachelor
Job Description
M-Pesa Africa Senior Infrastructure Architect
Job Description
We are hiring a Senior Infrastructure Architect to support M-Pesa in achieving its goal of becoming the #1 FinTech company in Africa, and as part of the M-PESA Africa Architecture Team you will lead the design and standardization of hybrid infrastructure across cloud and on-premises environments, ensuring alignment with M-PESA’s platform modernization, cloud adoption, and, zero-trust security goals. You will work closely with platform teams, DevOps engineers, domain architects, and operations stakeholders to ensure our digital infrastructure is resilient, cost-optimized, and future-ready.
This role sits at the intersection of infrastructure engineering, architectural governance, and cloud transformation—critical in enabling the real-time, high-volume, secure transactions that power over $1.2 billion in daily value exchange across Africa. The agile SAFe Framework has been adopted across M-PESA and in line with the framework you will acquire a systems thinking mindset that supports the continuous flow of value through the Continuous Delivery Pipeline enabling and fostering a DevOps culture. Working closely with Agile Teams, you will support the delivery teams through architectural enablers, technical runways, and hands-on guidance.
   Key Responsibilities:M-Pesa Africa Senior Infrastructure Architect
Infrastructure Architecture & Planning
- Define and maintain the target-state infrastructure architecture across data centres, cloud platforms, and edge environments;
- Lead the roadmap for infrastructure modernization including virtualization, hyperconverged systems, containerization, and network overlays;
- Establish infrastructure patterns and blueprints for compute, storage, backup, disaster recovery (DR), and network architectures;
- Align infrastructure strategy with enterprise architecture principles, performance objectives, and service-level agreements (SLAs).
Cloud and Hybrid Enablement
- Drive hybrid and multi-cloud architecture strategy across AWS, Azure, and private cloud (e.g. OpenStack, VMware);
- Architect secure, compliant infrastructure-as-code pipelines, integrating Terraform, Ansible, or similar tools;
- Guide cloud landing zone design, VPC architecture, identity federation, and interconnect strategies;
- Ensure observability, cost governance, and elasticity in cloud-native workloads.
Security, Resilience & Compliance
- Embed security-by-design principles into infrastructure blueprints, including microsegmentation, encryption, and zero-trust access;
- Architect HA/DR solutions across critical systems, ensuring geographic redundancy and failover readiness;
- Ensure infrastructure compliance with PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, and local regulatory requirements;
- Support infrastructure risk assessments and penetration testing preparation.
Governance & Collaboration
- Participate in Architecture Review Boards to assess infrastructure impact and conformance to strategy;
- Collaborate with DevOps, SRE, security, and operations teams to promote infrastructure reliability and automation;
- Engage with vendors, cloud providers, and technology partners for capability assessment and solutioning;
- Produce and maintain infrastructure architecture documentation, standards, and runbooks.
 Technical Experience & Qualifications:M-Pesa Africa Senior Infrastructure Architect
Essential Experience:
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8+ years in infrastructure or cloud architecture roles within high-availability environments.
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Strong background in:
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Data center and cloud network architecture
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Compute and virtualization
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Storage and backup
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Hybrid cloud design
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Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and automation
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CI/CD and infrastructure observability
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Platform engineering experience including service mesh and secure enclave deployment.
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Familiarity with Fintech or payments-grade infrastructure standards.
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Clear understanding of layered security models, zero trust architecture, and identity federation.
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Demonstrated hands-on experience in:
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Architecting hybrid/multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP)
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Container orchestration using Kubernetes
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Designing and implementing IaaS and PaaS adoption models
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Strong understanding of compliance architecture for frameworks like PCI-DSS, GDPR, ISO 27001.
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Proven experience integrating:
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Zero Trust Architecture principles
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Identity protocols (OAuth2, OpenID, SAML)
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Enterprise-level encryption solutions
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Desirable Skills:M-Pesa Africa Senior Infrastructure Architect
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Kubernetes cluster design and day-to-day operations.
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Integration with observability platforms such as Datadog and Splunk.
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Experience with edge computing, CDN integration, and scaling mobile backends.
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Relevant cloud certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Azure Architect Expert).
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Knowledge of continuous delivery and automated release pipelines.
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Interest in emerging payments technologies, suppliers, and innovations.
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Ability to translate technical and architectural policies into actionable design.
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Experience in vendor evaluation and technical due diligence for major platform decisions.
Educational & Professional Qualifications:M-Pesa Africa Senior Infrastructure Architect
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Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Network Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).
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8+ years of technical experience with a strong focus on infrastructure architecture.
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Industry experience in Financial Services and Financial Technologies is a strong plus.
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Knowledge of both Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
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