M-Pesa : Manager Platform Engineering

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We are Africa’s largest fintech providing financial services to more than 60 million customers and 5 million businesses, with transactions of over $1.2 billion a day across 8 countries.

Driven by a strong passion in innovation, we provide Africa’s leading super app, the M-PESA Super App, pioneering a digital financial ecosystem that empowers customers and businesses to send and receive money and payments across the world, enables them with access to affordable credit and savings propositions, and provides them with best-in-class solutions to easily grow their wealth and businesses.

United in our purpose to Transform Lives, we are determined and energetic in exploring and delivering solutions that consistently address our customers’ needs as we believe that we can only succeed if our customers and the community around us are succeeding.

Are you driven, passionate and enthusiastic about working on innovations that transform more than 60 million lives across the continent? Join us today!

• The Platform Engineering Manager is responsible for the end-to-end health of the shared infrastructure and platform built to power M-Pesa products and services. Working collaboratively with technology teams, the Platform Engineering Manager will help to drive operations and automation to accelerate product delivery and ensure consistent and stable services. They will ensure that the technologies employed across environments including Security and Dev Ops are correctly operated through a mixture of in-house and third-party teams and services, to provide a resilient, secure, and highly available platform for our products and services to run on,and that the overall strategy for platform delivery is defined, approved, and implemented.
• You will be required to establish, deliver, and refine a platform engineering roadmap to ensure that all platforms and products remain current, deliver value to product engineering teams, and supports the needs of internal stakeholders in terms of scalability, resilience, security, capacity, and operational maintenance.
• You will be responsible to implement and maintain shared platform services in a fast, secure, and efficient way to build NextGEN Technology platforms. Drive the roadmap of the Platform Engineering and supports the delivery of key futures by other business ART’s.
• Implementing cloud-native infrastructure, enabling microservices and extensive use of Open APIs, as well as achieving zero service outage, which requires enabling CI/CD tools and Dev Sec Ops .

Help align Strategy with execution:

• Provide input into the Platform strategy.
• Delivery of the Strategic Platform Engineering Road Map
• Designing and implementing solutions which have high availability and are scalable.
• Build business cases for different Platform Engineering propositions
• Interface between Product squads and Cloud Infrastructure teams.
• Creating and implement a Dev Ops SRE strategy, involving the creation of roadmap, introduction of processes, metrics, and systems to ensure success of the function.
• Manage and optimize the flow of value through the ART through ongoing evaluation of practices associated with Dev Sec Ops  and Release on Demand in the Continuous Delivery Pipeline
• Drive an engineering culture of continuous improvement (CI) based on data, e.g. Platform Performance metrics.
• Ensure technical debt and associated impacts are visible to stakeholders
• Ensure RISKs are managed, to remove impediments and ensuring mitigations are implemented.
• Build and maintain a core set of metrics that allow the business to understand…