M-Pesa Africa: Manager Platform Engineering

Your responsibilities will include: Provide input into the Platform strategy. Delivery of the Strategic Platform Engineering RoadMap Designing and implementing solutions which have high availability and are scalable. Build business cases for different Platform Engineering propositions Manage and optimize the flow of value through the ART through ongoing evaluation of practices associated with DevSecOps and Release on Demand in the Continuous Delivery Pipeline Ensure technical debt and associated impacts are visible to stakeholders Ensure RISKs are managed, to remove impediments and ensuring mitigations are implemented. Build and maintain a core set of metrics that allow the business to understand the state of the infrastructure and platform performance. Manage the delivery of features requested by the ARTS during PI planning. Manage product backlog for Platform engineering team Ensure that operational SLA and KPI's are met by DevOps team. Manage yearly capacity upgrades. Manage capacity planning for all platforms and infrastructure. Ensure SLA's are met for vulnerability and patch management on Infrastructure across M-PESA Implement CI/Cd toolset and pipelines on the HUB and other platforms. Implement Infrastructure and code to automate the spin up virtual environments. Facilitate and guide platform engineering discussions in weekly architectural forum. Manage infrastructure asset register for M-Pesa Platform Engineering Responsible for Incident and Problem management for L2 support on the HUB. Responsible for the delivery of network connectivity between the markets, HUB and AWS. Perform monthly User and ARM group attestation for the M-Pesa HUB Implement processes and controls within platform Engineering to improve and maintain the CSB Score to 4.0 or higher. Responsible for Infrastructure support and monitoring on AWS non-production systems Delivery of AWS hosted systems for non-production and production environments through the development of Terraform code, based on requirements provided by the release trains. Responsible for PAM (Privilege access management) on the M-Pesa HUB. Prepare and Facilitate PI Planning: Facilitate PI Planning readiness by fostering the Continuous Exploration process Assist with economic decision-making by facilitating feature and capability estimation by teams and the roll-up to Epics, where necessary Prepare for and facilitate PI Planning event Facilitate periodic synchronization events, including the ART sync, Systems Demos and Inspect and Adapt workshops Ensure effective vendor management Provide regular reporting and analysis to drive effective decision making and continuous improvement Management Experience in a FinTech environment, or at least infrastructure in a financial service environment - minimum 2 years working with PaaS, API Microservices driven environments. Expertise in cloud technical architectures and deployment models (serverless vs server managed). Experience of implementing and improving infrastructure monitoring and engineering metrics. Ability to work under pressure and without supervision