Fosad Consulting, LLC. is a professional services firm established to provide quality consulting services to desiring clients, whose primary objective is to focus their management and technical resources on their core competence.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Head of Technology Infrastructure
Location: Kenya
Employment Type: Full-time
Key Responsibilities
Leadership:
Recruit, mentor and motivate high performing teams
Promote talent development
Maintain culture of operational excellence and technology innovation
Strategy and Roadmap:
Develop infrastructure strategy and technology roadmaps aligned to business goals
Architect next-generation infrastructure to enable new products and services
Operations and Availability:
Ensure services meet their Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
Maintain highest levels of infrastructure uptime and performance
Lead incident, problem, change and capacity management
Governance and Compliance:
Manage access controls, security protections, business continuity planning
Manage audits, risk assessments, and ensure regulatory compliance
Financial Management:
Own infrastructure budgets, optimize spending and contain costs
Vendor and Contract Management:
Architect and source effective supplier solutions
Negotiate contracts ensuring optimal value and service quality
Stakeholder Engagement:
Consult technology teams and senior business leadership on infrastructure direction
Build relationships with key clients and external service providers
Experience / Skills Required
Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or Computer Science or related experience
Experience leading medium to large, complex infrastructure portfolios and cross-functional technical teams for availability and support of business systems
Good experience of infrastructure technologies across Platform, Storage, Database, Networks, Cloud, Virtualisation
Technology vision and multi-year infrastructure strategies and roadmaps spanning data center facilities, hardware/software platforms, hosting, networks etc
Experience with managing infrastructure budgets, making build vs buy decisions, controlling operational/capital expenditures and articulating sound cost/benefit justifications
Hands-on experience architecting and rolling out next-generation infrastructure leveraging automation, orchestration, cloud platforms and modernizing legacy environments
Implementing IT infrastructure processes, procedures, policies, and frameworks compliant to ITIL practices, regulatory controls, and industry standards
Working knowledge on security threats, risk assessments, data protection methodologies to implement robust defense-in-depth controls across infrastructure
Stakeholder management interacting with senior leaders in technology and business functions to consult infrastructure direction and jointly align priorities
Strong people leadership pedigree with experience hiring and retaining top infrastructure talent, nurturing team culture focused on infrastructure excellence and customer orientation
Exposure working in complex global organizations, networked with infrastructure leaders across geographical regions to collaborate on technology transformation initiatives
Passion for infrastructure space including deep understanding of major technology domains - data center, hardware, storage, backup, networks, virtualization, cloud platforms
Excellent written and oral communication skills in English
Excellent analytical and problem management skills
Dedicated approach to providing a best-in-class service
Excellent attention to detail and organizational skills
Collaborative and team player
Ability to successfully anticipate issues or challenges without being specifically directed
Ability to meet targets, deadlines and manage time, and teams time, effectively
Application Closing Date
25th April, 2024.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Application to: [email protected] using the job title as the subject of the mail.