Senior IT Manager - Infrastructure: Rest of Africa at Old Mutual Kenya

Introduction...

Responsible for provision and continuous improvement of a future fit and cloud ready IT infrastructure for Rest of Africa to support the business objectives. This role is accountable for achieving results individually, via project delivery and through the influencing and support of ROA country IT heads and their teams. The role manages delivery over periods from 3 months to a year.

Minimum Requirements...

 Skills, Qualifications and Experience

• Relevant tertiary qualification and/or recognition of prior learning.
• Minimum of 7 years of relevant Information Technology Infrastructure Management Experience, including experience in supporting cloud technologies.
• Strong working of financial management and project management.
• Highly Focused Attention to Detail
• Extensive Technical Knowledge – Be intimately familiar with technologies such as Microsoft, Cisco, VMware. Experience with storage area networks, WAN acceleration, virtualization, firewalls, routers. Increasing knowledge and experience of cloud services – specifically AWS and Microsoft Azure
• Management Skills – excellent people skills in order to effectively influence and manage infrastructure strategy and delivery across multiple countries
• Certification – Preference will be given to IT Infrastructure Managers with relevant certifications – e.g. AWS certified cloud practitioner, AWS certified solutions architect - associate, AWS certified advanced networking, relevant Cisco associate or professional certifications, Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
• Communication Skills – Stellar communication skills required to strategize, plan and collaborate with both higher- and lower-level colleagues.
• Disciplined execution – management of financial performance, delivery of processes to required standards and outcomes and project delivery
• Innovation – drive a high performing workforce and learning organization where individuals constantly strive to increase knowledge and capacity to produce best practice

Job Specification...

• Delivery of IT strategy projects
• Management of enterprise infrastructure vendors for value
• Development and compliance to OML infrastructure policies
• Transparency of infrastructure performance
• Service delivery of infrastructure
• Continuous development of infrastructure teams