Salary
Market Related
Deadline
17 Sep 2026
Posted
13 Sep 2026
Location
Dar es Salaam
Job Description
The Senior IT Infrastructure Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, managing, and optimizing AzamPay’s enterprise IT infrastructure.
This critical role ensures high availability, scalability, robust performance, and strict security across physical data centers, network architecture, enterprise storage, virtualization platforms, containerized environments, and hybrid cloud ecosystems.
Responsibilities
- Enterprise Virtualization & Identity Management: Administer enterprise server platforms (VMware, Oracle Virtualization) and manage Active Directory (AD DS, DNS, DHCP, GPO), LDAP, and Identity Access Management (IAM).
- Kubernetes & Microservices Orchestration: Design, maintain, and troubleshoot production-grade Kubernetes clusters. Oversee Helm deployments, monitor node health, manage ingress/plugins, and support zero-downtime deployment pipelines.
- Storage & SAN Management: Provision and manage enterprise SAN storage systems. Monitor performance metrics, execute capacity planning, and optimize multi-path storage allocations.
- Backup, Security & Disaster Recovery: Execute disaster recovery (DR) strategies, site failovers, and storage replication. Oversee enterprise backup and restoration workflows utilizing Veeam. Implement security patches and drive vulnerability remediation.
- Data Center & Hardware Maintenance: Support Tier II/III data center operations, including physical rack management, server hardware maintenance, and monitoring ambient cooling systems.
Qualifications
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
- Experience: Minimum of 5+ years of hands-on experience in a Senior Infrastructure, Systems Administration, or Enterprise DevOps role.
- Virtualization & OS: Advanced Linux administration (RHEL, Oracle Linux, Ubuntu) and Windows Server environments, alongside deep expertise in VMware/Oracle virtualization platforms.
- Storage & Automation: Strong expertise in SAN infrastructure, Veeam Backup & Replication, and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools like Terraform and Ansible.
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