Senior Manager Cloud Platforms at KCB Bank Kenya

The Position: 

Technology Infrastructure department oversees planning, deployment and operation of state-of-the-art infrastructure services that include server, storage, network, and databases that support mission critical services for the Bank.

The role holder will act as the leader a team of that is composed of technical experts on container management and middleware platforms that support business critical financial services for the Bank. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for ensuring conformance to security standards for all PaaS and middleware platforms. 
• Responsible for CapEx and OpEx planning within the cloud platforms and middleware domain. 
• Accountable for building, maintaining, and supporting high-performance, fault-tolerant, scalable, and distributed PaaS with Openshift and middleware platforms.
• Provide leadership in interfacing with application development teams to ensure applications fit within the PaaS and middleware platforms with scalability, reliability and security designed.
• Provide leadership and execution of automation of systems and services at massive scale to support scaling of digital services.
• Provide leadership for adoption of the ‘open source first’ as a fit for the future initiative within the cloud and middleware domain. 
• Establish effective relationship with suppliers and partners to influence their plans and maximize value delivery from the relationship for all cloud and middleware platforms. 
• Lead a team of technical experts maintaining KCB PaaS and middleware systems running on diverse technologies such as RedHat Openshift and WS02.

The Person:

For the above position, the successful applicant should have the following:

• Bachelor’s degree in ICT related field or Electrical Engineering.
• Professional Qualifications in RedHat Administration (RHCE/RHCSA), Openshift/Kubernetes, Cloud (AWS or Azure Architect/SysOps, JBOSS/Fuse/3Scale) and middleware platforms such as Oracle WebLogic, IBM WebSphere, TIBCO, WSO2, RedHat Fuse.
• 6 years progressive working experience in Linux administration with at least 5 years in middleware administration and 2 years in Docker/Openshift/Kubernetes administration. 
• Experience with IT automation with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Chef and Puppet.  
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.