Group Head of Infrastructure

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🕒 August 18

🇿🇦 South Africa – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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Onafriq

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

501 - 1000 employees

📦 Logistics

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

Logistics • Consulting • Marketing

Onafriq is a pioneering payments company building the African payments infrastructure for the next 100 years, connecting businesses to the continent through a global payment network. They connect over 500 million mobile money wallets, 200 million bank accounts, and 400,000 agents primarily in Nigeria. Onafriq's omnichannel network enables domestic and cross-border disbursements, collections, card issuing, processing, agency banking, and treasury services. Their innovative approach has earned them recognition as the Fintech of the Year at the African Banker Awards in 2023, highlighting their impact and innovation in the financial sector.

📋 Description

• Define and deliver a group infrastructure roadmap supporting growth, reliability, security, and market expansion • Translate business priorities into infrastructure outcomes, investment choices, delivery plans, and measurable service improvements • Provide executive-level visibility into infrastructure health, risks, trade-offs, and resilience decisions • Deliver secure, scalable, and cost-effective cloud and hybrid infrastructure for high-volume payments and enterprise workloads • Improve infrastructure automation, monitoring, observability, and recovery capabilities • Maintain uptime, performance, patching, backup, and capacity management standards • Ensure infrastructure supports secure, compliant, and highly available payment services across cards, enterprise, network, and agency platforms • Partner with Product, Operations, Security, and Engineering teams to remove infrastructure bottlenecks • Strengthen incident, problem, change, release, and post-incident review processes • Maintain infrastructure security and compliance, including vulnerability remediation, access controls, audit readiness, PCI DSS, and related standards • Drive infrastructure cost management, capacity planning, and vendor optimization • Build accountable, high-performing infrastructure teams with clear ownership, operating rhythms, escalation paths, and development plans • Establish measurable team objectives and service-level indicators • Deliver modernization opportunities improving resilience, security, scalability, deployment speed, and operational efficiency • Reduce infrastructure complexity and technical debt through architecture improvements, standardization, automation, and lifecycle management

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field • 10+ years of experience in senior infrastructure leadership roles, preferably in fintech or payments • Advanced certifications in cloud computing (AWS, Azure, GCP), ITIL, and security standards (PCI DSS, ISO/IEC 27001) • Proven expertise in cloud architecture, system administration, and payment systems infrastructure • Strong experience in leading distributed teams and managing complex, cross-functional projects • Exceptional leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills • Visionary thinking with hands-on technical depth • Strong interpersonal skills and collaborative relationship-building • Passion for technological innovation and operational excellence • High attention to detail

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible working policy • Unlimited leave policy • Competitive salary package • Bonuses • Various initiatives supporting staff well-being and helping employees reach their full potential • Diverse work environment • Supportive environment