SAAS Sales Manager - Inside Sales

Location: Nairobi

The Infrastructure Engineer will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining the

organization's infrastructure, including storage solutions, server hardware, bare metal deployments,

SAN switches, and container platforms like OpenShift or Kubernetes. The ideal candidate will

possess strong technical skills and a proven track record in managing and troubleshooting complex

infrastructure environments.

Key Responsibilities

- Storage Management: Design, implement, and manage storage solutions (SAN, NAS, etc.),

including storage allocation, provisioning, monitoring, and troubleshooting. Experience with specific

storage arrays (e.g., Dell EMC, NetApp, HPE) is a plus.

- Server Infrastructure: Manage and maintain server hardware, including physical servers,

virtualization platforms (VMware, Hyper-V), and bare metal deployments.

- Bare Metal Expertise: Experience with bare metal server deployment, configuration, and

management, including understanding of hardware components and their interaction.

- SAN Switch Management: Configure and manage SAN switches (Brocade, Cisco MDS), including

zoning, fabric management, and troubleshooting connectivity issues.

- Containerization (OpenShift/Kubernetes): Design, deploy, and manage OpenShift or Kubernetes

clusters, including application deployment, scaling, and troubleshooting.

- Infrastructure Automation: Develop and implement automation scripts and tools to streamline

infrastructure management tasks.

- Performance Monitoring and Optimization: Monitor infrastructure performance, identify

bottlenecks, and implement solutions to optimize performance.

- Troubleshooting: Diagnose and resolve complex infrastructure issues, collaborating with other

teams as needed.

- Documentation: Create and maintain accurate documentation for infrastructure configurations,

procedures, and troubleshooting steps.

- Security: Implement and maintain security best practices for infrastructure components.

Required Skills and Experience

- Strong understanding of storage technologies (SAN, NAS, etc.)

- Proficiency in server hardware and virtualization platforms.

- Experience with bare metal server deployments and management.

- Knowledge of SAN switches and fabric management.

- Experience with containerization platforms like OpenShift or Kubernetes.

- Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash) for automation.

- Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.

- Strong communication and collaboration skills.

- Experience with performance monitoring and optimization tools.

- Familiarity with Linux operating systems.

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with specific storage array vendors (Dell EMC, NetApp, HPE).

- Experience with specific server vendors (e.g., Dell, HP, Supermicro).

- Experience with specific SAN switch vendors (Brocade, Cisco MDS).

- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).

- Relevant certifications (e.g., RHCE, VCP, MCSE).

Roles and Responsibilities:

1. Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle
2. Write well designed, testable, efficient code
3. Ensure designs comply with specifications
4. Prepare and produce releases of software components
5. Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for architectural review
6. Ensure continual knowledge management
7. Adherence to the organizational guidelines and processes

Skills /Competencies: a. Bachelor/Master’s degree with good experience in computer programming b.4+ years working experience in application development using Java

Essential Skills:

1. Hands on experience in designing and developing applications using Java EE platforms
2. Object Oriented analysis and design using common design patterns.
3. Profound insight of Java and JEE internals (Data structure, Algorithm and time complexity, Memory Management, Transaction management etc)
4. Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL and ORM technologies (JPA2, Hibernate)
5. Experience in the Spring Framework
6. Experience in developing web applications using at least one popular web framework (JSF, Wicket, GWT, Spring MVC) and UI technology (Angular/React JS)
7. Ability to operate independently while establishing strong working relationships with co-workers and cross-functional teams
8. Strong organizational and prioritization skills
9. Demonstrate critical attention to detail and deadlines, and are self-motivated
10. Ability to adapt to changes in direction and priorities in a project and deadline-oriented environment
11. Strong written and verbal English communication skills
12. Problem-solving attitude

Preferred skills Good to have –

1. Knowledge in any UI technology (Angular, React, JS)
2. Intermediate level knowledge of Unix environment (User commands, not System Admin commands)
3. Understanding of capital markets and middle/back office processes in the financial services space

Requirements:

6+ year of working experience .

Strong understanding of web fundamentals

Deeply technical with a track record of successful delivery.

Manage daily/weekly scrums.

Lead technical strategy and implementation for various team initiatives with an alignment with project / client expectations

Proven record of building project from scratch.

An entrepreneurial spirit combined with strong program and project management skills.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex plans and designs.

Excellent judgment, organizational, and problem-solving skills.

Excellent design and architecture knowledge.

Data-driven decision making.

Job Description

We are looking for a PHP Developer responsible for managing front-end services and the interchange of data between the server and the users. Your primary focus will be the development of all front UI & Business logic. You will be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built. Therefore, a thorough understanding of all front-end elements is necessary.

Responsibilities

• Integrating UI & developing Business Logic
• Good understanding of Javascript and JQuery is a must.
• Good knowledge of working with Cookies and Browser Sessions.
• Experience working with File Handling Concepts.
• Writing clean code and creating necessary components.
• Build efficient, testable, and reusable PHP modules
• Solve complex performance problems and architectural challenges
• Integration of data storage solutions (may include databases, key-value stores, blob stores, etc.)
• Understanding the fully synchronous behavior of PHP.
• Understanding of MVC design patterns.
• Knowledge of object oriented PHP programming.
• Strong knowledge of the common PHP or web server exploits and their solutions.
• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.
• Experience in common third-party APIs (Google, Facebook etc).
• Google maps integration
• Working with reddis cache
• Building pixel perfect UI with html and CSS
• Good understanding of Session management in PHP
• Writing maintainable code
• Good understanding of concepts such as Lazy loading.

• If you hold experience with backend technologies such as NodeJS, MongoDB & Express. It will be a significant advantage.

Skills And Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of Core PHP. 
• Understanding the fully synchronous behavior of PHP.
• Understanding of MVC design patterns.
• Knowledge of object oriented PHP programming.
• Understanding accessibility and security compliance.
• Strong knowledge of the common PHP or web server exploits and their solutions.
• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments.
• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system.
• Familiarity with limitations of PHP as a platform and its workarounds.
• Familiarity with NoSQL databases and their declarative query languages is an advantage.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.
• Minimum 2+ years' experience in PHP frontend development.

• Working with Banks in 24x7 based environment and identify Application problems and advising on the solution.
• Analyzing application/OS logs to spot common trends and underlying problems.
• Analyzing underlying database using SQL queries (MS SQL /Oracle or any other relational database).
• Deploying, testing, and reporting bugs/issues in new modules and support clients in testing.

Skills Required:

• Good analytical and problem-solving skills.
• knowledge of Linux Commands and database queries.
• Knowledge of Application servers i.e Apache Tomcat/ Jboss.
• Knowledge of shell script 
• knowledge on Banking Digital Products i.e. IMPS, UPI

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

·         Automated testing of complex SPA Web application (brand-new software products based on unified platform, new features, bug verification), requirement testing, analysis and clarification (direct communication with product owner),

·         Communication with different cross-functional teams

·         Following automation testing standards set in the team

·         Help to build fully automated testing pipeline

 REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE                                                                                                

• 3-5 years of experience in automation testing
  
• Testing web-applications (UI and API), including SPA
• Black box testing (boundary values, equivalence partitioning)
• UI/UX Testing
• C# experience of 2+ years
  
• NUnit or similar
  
• Selenium WebDriver
• CSS-selectors                                                

DESIRABLE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE                             

• Basic knowledge of core JavaScript
•  Desire to learn tools and techniques
• Confluence or similar
• Bug tracking system (Jira)
• TeamCity
• Allure or similar
  
• Jira X-Ray or similar
• Performance testing experience
• Cross-browser testing experience
• Security testing experience

PERSONAL SKILLS

·         Strong spirit skills set: conflict resistant, self -motivated, result-oriented, responsible, honest, “open”, courageous

• Extensive experience in building REST APIs
• Experience in building, managing, and enhancing backend / server-side development using java / java scripts. Expertise in NodeJS is preferred
• The person must have built systems that consume and process volumes of data from various sources. Experience in handling and managing data in NoSQL databases such as Mongodb.
• Extensive experience of building custom UI for web using the popular frameworks like angular and react. Experience in developing mobile UI is nice to have
• Experience of working with code repositories such as Github and GitLab.
• Fluent written and spoken English.
• Experience of working on Cloud environments and experience in AWS is preferred.
• Experience in Dockers and Kubernetes for deployments

• Design and documentation of the CashLobe technology stack
• Code / implement the CashLobe technology stack
• Deploy and maintain the CashLobe technology stack
• Engage with leadership team to help evolve the CashLobe technology stack offerings

• Have pre-built deployment pipelines CI/CD across environments DEV/STAGING/PROD
• Knowledge of developing using Python and specifically the data/number crunching frameworks like NumPy, pandas, scikit, etc.
• Experience in the Fintech domain and specifically the banking & accounting systems