Hybrid Team Lead – Infrastructure Administrator, DevOps

at MTN Uganda

• Job title: Team Lead – Infrastructure Administrator, DevOps
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Ansible, AWS, Azure, Cloud, Docker, Grafana, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Linux, Microservices, Prometheus, Terraform, VMware
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Victoria Island, Nigeria

About the role

• Team Lead overseeing Infrastructure Administration and DevOps at MoMo Payment Service Bank, ensuring high availability and compliance across cloud and on-premises environments.

Responsibilities

• Define infrastructure and DevOps strategy across hybrid cloud and on‑prem environments.
• Establish high availability, disaster recovery, and container orchestration frameworks.
• Drive cloud adoption, Kubernetes implementation, and CI/CD modernization initiatives.
• Ensure compliance with CBN PSB, PCI DSS, NDPR, ISO standards.
• Lead the planning and execution of server upgrades, virtualization initiatives, and cloud migration activities.
• Implement enterprise‑grade backup, recovery, and disaster‑recovery (DR) drills across all infrastructure components.
• Drive performance optimization and capacity planning for compute, storage, and network resources.
• Enforce security hardening, vulnerability remediation, and patch management across hybrid environments.
• Integrate end‑to‑end monitoring and alerting systems to enable proactive incident detection and resolution.
• Design, build, and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application deployments.
• Architect, deploy, and manage Kubernetes clusters, including nodes, pods, deployments, ingress, and networking.
• Administer containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes objects such as Pods, ReplicaSets, Deployments, and StatefulSets.
• Implement GitOps‑driven automation using Terraform, Ansible, Helm, and version‑controlled workflows.
• Deploy and maintain unified monitoring, logging, and full‑stack observability platforms to ensure service reliability and performance.
• Oversee server and container platform provisioning, configuration, patching, and image management.
• Monitor overall infrastructure health, performance, availability, and security compliance.
• Manage Kubernetes operations including pod lifecycle management, scaling, updates, and performance tuning.
• Respond to incidents, troubleshoot infrastructure and Kubernetes‑related issues, and ensure timely resolution.
• Support application teams in onboarding and adopting CI/CD pipelines and Kubernetes environments.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation, SOPs, compliance evidence, and governance artifacts.
• Support change management and release processes across infrastructure and platform services.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Professional certifications such as AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, and ITIL are an added advantage.
• Experience: 7+ years managing server with virtualization(VMware, Hyper-V), cloud, DevOps, and container orchestration in high‑availability environments.
• Proven track record in DR planning, security hardening, and performance optimization
• CI/CD pipeline automation (GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, Jenkins).
• Kubernetes administration (Pods, Deployments, Services, Ingress, Helm).
• Containerization with Docker and Kubernetes-native tooling.
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes manifests.
• Windows/Linux server management and virtualization (VMware, Hyper‑V).
• Cloud platforms: AWS & Azure (compute, storage, networking).
• Microservices deployment in distributed environments.
• Monitoring tools: Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor.
• Security controls: IAM, encryption, patching, compliance.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Professional development opportunities