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

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: 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. 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). 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 g (Cosign), WAF/IDS/IPS. 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. 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 Engineering Leadership & Delivery 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”. DevSecOps & Platform Engineering 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. Establish golden paths/templates for services and infrastructure. Cloud/Container & Runtime Operations 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. Reliability, Observability & Incident Management Implement SLOs/SLIs,