Vacancies at M-KOPA Solar

About the role

• In this exciting role as Mobility General Manager, you will lead a team of Department Heads and managers across multiple commercial and operations business units. You will have full P&L responsibility and management, including all the related targets.
• You'll oversee all distribution, expansion and budgeting including all the key operational stakeholders. You will be responsible for developing annual budgets and detailed operating plans with your respective departments and actively monitor business performance across key functional areas to determine progress against weekly/monthly/quarterly KPI’s and identify areas for improvement.
• You will also build on the existing high performing company culture and customer satisfaction that exemplifies the M-KOPA Mobility values. 

About you

• You are passionate about M-KOPA’s mission of making financing for everyday essentials accessible to everyone. You have demonstrable Sr. leadership and P&L management experience leading high performing cross functional teams. Excellent problem-solving skills, with ability to analyse complex information and draw relevant conclusions. You have a strategic outlook and are able to execute, using complex data to navigate the challenges that may arise.  
• Strong communication skills in English are essential, the ability to use Kiswahili is highly desirable.  Ideal experience would be working in the Mobility and/or Asset financing sector in the region, although applications from adjacent and related industries where strong leadership is demonstrated are encouraged if coupled to the right regions . 
• Excellent commercial and government stakeholder management skills, including the ability to set and communicate direction along with evidence of building strong external relationships.  
• This is a hybrid role, you would be working from our offices in Nairobi, partnering with a diverse group of employees from our different markets and locations across the UK, Europe and Africa. 

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About the job

We are looking for a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to join our Analytics Department; as we scale up and drive digital and financial inclusion across our markets.

We’re looking for a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to join our Technical Department who’s collaborative, communicative, systematic and a fast-learning results-driven person. The Cloud Infrastructure Team at M-KOPA supports our teams to stay on the frontline of modernisation, scalability, security and efficiency of a complex and quickly growing cloud environment. Your main objective will be to automate and maintain M-KOPA’s infrastructure for application hosting and integration. You will also be responsible for supporting teams in CI/CD and DevOps practices.

As an engineer in the group you will work as a collaborator, more senior members will coach and contribute placing an emphasis on high quality output observability and monitoring.
This is a fully remote role, you would be working within the following time zone (UTC -1 / UTC+3) with a diverse group of other employees working remotely from locations such as UK, Europe and Africa. You will be reporting to the Analytics Engineering Team Lead.

Expertise

• As a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, you will support our services using Microsoft Azure, specifically Azure Kubernetes Service as well as support transitions of some IaaS legacy assets towards modern infrastructure. As a part of a team of four cloud engineers, you will be responsible for our shared cloud infrastructure, including all operational aspects including observability, updates automation, capacity management, compliance & security, etc.
• We are in constant collaboration with the backend developers and our mission is to empower the developers to manage most of the infrastructure work (e.g. CI/CD, resource scaling, observability, etc.), and assist where needed.
• Our expectations are that you have strong experience working as an Infrastructure engineer and good experience working with Azure Cloud.
• You have a strong DevOps mentality, you have an orientation towards efficient cross-team collaboration and communication to ensure eliminating bottlenecks and enabling a broad team of software engineers to deliver value based on a robust shared infrastructure/processes.
• For this role, experience with infrastructure-as-code and an understanding in its value is important.