System Administrator - M-Pesa IT Infrastructure

About the role

Vodafone is looking for a System Administrator to manage and maintain M-Pesa infrastructure platforms. The role ensures high availability, operational stability, disaster recovery readiness, compliance with infrastructure lifecycle standards, incident management and effective delivery of infrastructure projects and support services for critical digital financial systems.

Key responsibilities

• M-Pesa platform infrastructure operations
• Operating system lifecycle and vulnerability management
• Change and release management
• Incident management
• Access security and compliance
• Monitoring and operational readiness

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, Telecommunications Engineering, Information Systems or a related field
• Minimum 3-5 years of IT infrastructure administration in a large enterprise, telecommunications, financial services, fintech or mission-critical environment
• Hands-on experience administering Linux (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) and Windows Server environments
• Experience with Red Hat RHCSA/RHCE, VMware VCP, Kubernetes (CKA/CKAD), Microsoft Windows Server or Azure administration, and ITIL Foundation certification
• Active-active high availability implementation experience

Required skills

• Linux (Red Hat) and Windows Server administration
• VMware virtualization and storage, VMware Tanzu, Kubernetes, Docker and containerization
• Red Hat OpenShift administration
• Infrastructure security and compliance
• Knowledge of payment gateways, private and public cloud, and HP, Dell and Oracle hardware

What we offer

• Hybrid working
• Generous parental leave
• Four Spirit Days a year for personal development and wellbeing