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Position Purpose
Wave Money is a ‘mobile money’ financial services organization in Myanmar, headquartered in Yangon. Wave Money utilizes an external Hosting company as an IaaS, running on cloud technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker, MuleSoft and many flavors of Database which are mainly hosted on Linux servers.
The Infrastructure Engineer will:
- Maintain and support Wave technical infrastructure and ensure all new services delivered to the business follow Wave standards.
- Is responsible for the establishment and ongoing management of a quality, effective and efficient operational environment including all technical support required to ensure successful operation of all production systems.
Is responsible for managing vendors, middleware and database environments and any underlying technologies required to host the applications including virtualization.
Key Result Areas
Positive engagement with technology and non-technology stakeholders which drives outcomes.
Exhibit strong leadership capability and staff development and engagement to improve the overall performance of the Technology practice and future-proof its success.
Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities
- Report to the Head of Engineering and Architecture
- Perform detailed analysis and documentation of the currently application deployment procedures that leverage Docker (containerization) and Kubernetes (Orchestration) technologies
- Provide recommendations, planning and execution of such for updating such technologies
- Perform technical system review of third party and custom-built applications
- Ensure functional, system and architectural integrity of Financial Services technology platforms
- Ensure effective and efficient vendor management
- Ensure effective change control and configuration management is implemented
- Ensure organizations hardware and systems comply with relevant legislations and policies
- Ensure the information security of the systems is according to requirements and Regulation
- Work in both Agile and Waterfall methodology where it makes sense.
- Plan and lead performance, stress and other testing required on the system infrastructure
- Manage and execute all infrastructure builds
- Ensure all the systems at Wave are patched and secure and not open to vulnerabilities
- Supporting OPS, DevOps and PMO teams
- Troubleshoot system and infrastructure related issues
- Develop new IT operating model procedures and process
Key Performance and Success Indicators
KPIs
Financial:
- Delivery of capability which supports the Revenue objectives of Wave Money
- Expense minimization whilst hitting all key objectives
Organisational:
- Minimal outages to Wave customer and agent network.
Individual:
- Result-based improvement and management of IT / Databases
- Leadership and people management
- Vendor engagement
- Document outcomes
Key Stakeholders
Wave: Technology Team
Telenor partner: Telenor IT, Telenor Strategy, and Telenor PMO
Yoma partner: IT
External: Regulators, Startups, payments companies
Vendors: App, website, middleware, database, infrastructure, core mobile financial services platform
Competencies
- Transformation Delivery
- Program Delivery
- Leadership
- Partnership
- Communication – written, verbal and documentary
- Governance
- Development of junior and surrounding staff including mentoring
- Decision making (rapid and deep consideration)
- Vision setting / strategic thinking
- Architectural consideration
- Organization development.