Senior IT Infrastructure Engineer at AzamPay

Job Role Insights

  • Date posted

    2026-09-11

  • Closing date

    2026-09-24

  • Hiring location

    Tanzania

  • Career level

    Middle

  • Qualification

    Bachelor Degree

  • Experience

    5 Years

  • Quantity

    1 person

  • Gender

    both

  • Job ID

    144396

Job Description

Company: AzamPay
Job Title: Senior IT Infrastructure Engineer
Job Function: Information Technology / IT Infrastructure
Experience Required: 5+ years
Application Deadline: 17 September 2026

JOB OVERVIEW

The Senior IT Infrastructure Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, managing and optimizing the organization's enterprise IT infrastructure.

This role ensures high availability, performance and security across physical systems, networks, enterprise storage and virtualization platforms, containerized environments and cloud services.

The engineer will lead complex infrastructure projects, enforce data center compliance, guide technical teams and provide infrastructure support.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Enterprise Virtualization & Identity Management

  • Manage enterprise servers and Oracle/VMware platforms.
  • Manage Active Directory, LDAP, access control and Group Policies.

Kubernetes & Microservices Orchestration

  • Design and manage production Kubernetes clusters.
  • Manage Helm deployments.
  • Monitor and maintain node health.
  • Support zero-downtime application deployments.

Enterprise SAN & Storage Management

  • Manage SAN and enterprise storage systems.
  • Manage storage allocation.
  • Monitor and optimize storage performance.
  • Conduct capacity planning.

Backup, Security & Disaster Recovery

  • Manage Veeam backup, restoration and archiving.
  • Manage storage replication.
  • Manage disaster recovery (DR) failover.
  • Implement and maintain security controls.
  • Manage vulnerability remediation.

Hardware & Data Center Health

  • Maintain server hardware and racks.
  • Maintain cooling systems.
  • Support Tier II/III data center operations.

Infrastructure Automation & Monitoring

  • Automate IT provisioning and configurations using Ansible and Terraform.
  • Maintain enterprise monitoring systems.

Cloud & Hybrid Integration

  • Deploy and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure.
  • Manage SaaS platforms such as Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace.

Project & Operations Leadership

  • Lead IT infrastructure projects using JIRA.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams.

EDUCATIONAL & TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS

Education

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.

Experience

  • 5+ years of hands-on experience in a Senior IT Infrastructure role.

Virtualization & Identity Services

  • Strong expertise in enterprise Oracle and VMware virtualization environments.
  • Strong expertise in Microsoft Active Directory, including AD DS, DNS, DHCP and GPO.
  • Experience with IAM integrations.

Containerization

  • Proven experience managing Kubernetes in production.
  • Experience with Control Plane maintenance.
  • Experience with Worker Node scaling.
  • Experience with CNI/CSI plugins.
  • Experience with ingress management.

Storage & Backup

  • Deep knowledge of Enterprise SAN & Storage management.
  • Knowledge of multipathing.
  • Experience with enterprise backup and restoration platforms such as Veeam.

Operating Systems

  • Advanced Linux server administration skills, including RHEL, Oracle Linux and Ubuntu.
  • Experience with Microsoft Windows operating systems.
  • Strong knowledge of core networking.

Automation & Monitoring

  • Strong proficiency in Ansible and Terraform.
  • Strong proficiency with NetData/Zabbix monitoring platforms.

BEHAVIORAL & LEADERSHIP SKILLS

  • Self-Driven & Resourceful: Must possess strong technical leadership, initiative and problem-solving capabilities.
  • Analytical Mindset: Excellent troubleshooting skills under pressure with strong attention to system stability and uptime.
  • Communication: Superior written and verbal communication skills for presenting technical strategies to management and vendors.
  • Team Player: Ability to work independently while fostering collaborative relationships across software development and operations teams.

HOW TO APPLY

Interested and qualified candidates should apply through the application link provided by AzamPay.

Application Deadline: 17 September 2026.

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