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Manager - Engineering, Development, Security & Operations(DevSecOps)

MTN

Posted 6 months agoKampala, Uganda

Location

Kampala, Uganda

Job Type

Full-time

Experience

Senior

Category

Telecommunications

Job Description

Reporting to: Senior Manager Solution Architecture Division – Technology Mission/ Core purpose of the Job Institutionalize automated testing (unit, integration, contract, E2E), test data management, and quality gates in CI/CD. Experience: 5–7+ years in software engineering with 3–5+ years leading DevOps/Platform/SRE/Engineering teams in FinTech, payments, or high‑availability digital platforms. Domain: Payments/wallets, banking integrations, digital channels, KYC, fraud controls, reconciliation/settlement, regulatory environments. Security Tooling: SAST (e.g., SonarQube), DAST (e.g., OWASP ZAP), dependency scanning (e.g., Trivy/Snyk), secrets mgmt (e.g., Vault/KMS), container/image signing (Cosign), WAF/IDS/IPS. NB: Presentation of false academic documents and certification will lead to criminal prosecution. Any form of canvassing will lead to automa
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Requirements

  • Education:
  • Minimum 4-year Academic Degree with Honors (B Eng. / BSc Computer Science / Engineering or equivalent Degree Preferred)
  • Relevant certification/accreditation/membership with professional body as required for role e.g., TOGAF
  • Experience:
  • Languages: Java/Kotlin, .NET/C#, Node.js, Python, or Go (at least two).
  • APIs & Messaging: REST/GraphQL, gRPC; Kafka/RabbitMQ; API Gateway management.
  • Cloud & Containers: AWS/Azure/GCP; Kubernetes, Helm, Docker; service mesh (Istio/Linkerd).
  • CI/CD & IaC: Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions/Jenkins; Terraform, Ansible; artifact registries (Nexus/Artifactory).
  • Observability: Prometheus/Grafana, ELK/EFK, OpenTelemetry, Jaeger/Tempo; incident tooling (PagerDuty/Opsgenie).
  • Data: PostgreSQL/MySQL, Redis, object storage; basics of data pipelines for events/audit trails.
  • Standards/Compliance: PCI DSS, ISO 27001/27002, OWASP ASVS/Top 10, NIST CSF.
  • Competencies:
  • Technical Proficiency:
  • Skills
  • Strong stakeholder management; ability to translate business goals into delivery plans.
  • Excellent communication and documentation; effective incident leadership under pressure.
  • Coaching mindset; continuous improvement and measurable outcomes orientation.
  • Behavioral Qualities
  • Complete Accountability
  • Courage
  • Relational
  • Adaptable
  • Complete candour
  • Culturally aware
  • Emotional Maturity (High EQ)
  • Innovation
  • Integrity
  • Leadership
  • Team Player

Responsibilities

  • Main Job Functions:
  • Lead cross-functional squads to ship features and platforms on predictable cadences (sprints/PI).
  • Define engineering standards: coding, branching, code review, testing, and release criteria.
  • Drive architecture with the Enterprise/Platform Architect (microservices, event-driven, API-first).
  • Remove delivery blockers; manage tech debt; enforce “definition of done”.
  • Establish golden paths/templates for services and infrastructure.
  • Operate and optimize cloud/Kubernetes platforms (HA, autoscaling, backups, DR, multi‑AZ/region where applicable).
  • Manage configuration, service mesh, API gateways, ingress/egress, certificates, and key rotations.
  • Champion FinOps: capacity planning, rightsizing, tagging, cost visibility and governance.
  • Implement SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, proactive alerting, and runbooks.
  • Lead incident response (on-call rotations, post-incident reviews, corrective actions).
  • Ensure performance, resilience, and latency objectives for customer‑facing journeys.
  • Security, Risk & Compliance
  • Align SDLC and operations to PCI DSS, ISO 27001/27002, SOC 2, local data protection, and internal security policies.
  • Enforce least privilege, network segmentation, VPNs, IP whitelisting, WAF, and API security.
  • Coordinate vulnerability management and pen test remediation with InfoSec and R&C.
  • Quality Engineering
  • Promote shift‑left testing and canary/blue‑green deployment strategies.
  • APIs, Integrations & Ecosystem
  • Govern API lifecycle (design, versioning, documentation, developer portal, monitoring).
  • Ensure robust, secure integrations with banks, merchants, and 3PPs via VPNs, mTLS,
  • Lead and grow an in‑house engineering capability that designs, builds, secures, deploys, and operates digital financial services platforms (e.g., wallet, payments, APIs, integrations).
  • Own the full software delivery lifecycle (SDLC) and DevSecOps practices—ensuring secure-by-design delivery, reliability, speed-to-market, and regulatory compliance across environments (dev/QA/stage/prod).
  • Own CI/CD pipelines, artifact repositories, infrastructure-as-code (IaC), secrets management, release automation, and environment parity.
  • Implement secure-by-design: SAST/DAST, dependency scanning, container image scanning, SBOMs, signed artifacts, and policy-as-code.