Infrastructure and Cybersecurity Manager at BRAC

Career with BRAC Tanzania Finance Tanzania

BRAC is an award-winning international non-governmental development organisation, with the vision of a world free from all forms of exploitation and discrimination, where everyone has the opportunity to realise their potential. BRAC is a leader in developing and implementing cost-effective, evidence-based programmes to assist poor and disadvantaged communities in low-income countries, including in conflictprone and post-disaster settings. It is an organisation of and for the people of the Global South, pioneering new development and social enterprise approaches to equip communities to achieve prosperity. As well as being the world’s biggest NGO by number of staff and people directly reached, BRAC has regularly been ranked the number one NGO in the world by the Geneva-based NGO Advisor, an independent organisation committed to highlighting innovation, impact and governance in the nonprofit sector. BRAC retained the top spot in 2020 among the top 500 NGOs for the fifth consecutive year.

BRAC was founded in Bangladesh in 1972 by Sir Fazle Hasan Abed. It started its first programme outside of Bangladesh in Afghanistan in 2002, and has since reached millions of people in 11 countries in Asia and Africa. BRAC has a holistic approach to development that uses a wide array of programmes and social enterprises, including in microfinance, education, health, agriculture, gender and human rights. BRAC believes that every person has inherent potential, and when an enabling environment is created and that potential is unleashed, even the poorest can become agents of positive change in their own lives, for their families and their communities.

BRAC TANZANIA FINANCE LIMITED (BTFL) is the largest Microfinance organization in Tanzania with a mission to responsibly provide a range of financial services to people at the bottom of the pyramid. We particularly focus on women living in poverty in rural and hard-to-reach areas to create self-employment opportunities, build financial resilience, and harness women’s entrepreneurial spirit by empowering them economically.

BRAC Tanzania Finance LTD is seeking applications from competent, dynamic and self-motivated individual to fill up the following position;

Job Title: Infrastructure and Cybersecurity Manager

Job Location: Dar es Salaam

Purpose

Responsible to ensure the efficient and cybersecure design, installation, and operation of IT infrastructure at all data centers (physical or cloud-based).

Job Responsibilities:

Works with the Management and strategic service partners to design systems architecture, build and deployment
Monitors and ensures high quality IT service partner service delivery Provides expert infrastructure support to all IT project implementations. • Significantly contributes to achieving the IT department’s strategic objectives and ensures effective solutions are created and implemented to meet business requirement
Ensures an effective and validated Disaster Recovery infrastructure exists for each branch office
Develops and maintains a cybersecurity and infrastructure system monitoring strategy, using an effective tool portfolio
Creates a communication plan to ensure all team members are well-informed of architecture standards, implementation guidelines and process expectations
Acts as the lead systems architect for all system design and implementation activities
To protect all cloud data via effective security, storage, backup/recovery and disaster recovery techniques

Ensures that all implementation initiatives follow established change management policies/ITIL compliant processes
Maintains up-to-date asset and licensing inventories at Head office and branch offices

Safeguarding job responsibilities

Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation to achieve the program’s goals on safeguarding implementation. Act as a key source of support, guidance, and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment.
Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.
Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place, encourage others to do so.

Required Qualifications and Experience:

Bachelors’ Degree in Computer Science, Information technology or any other related field. Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) and ITIL V3 Foundation is an added advantage
More than 5 years of experience in managing technical and infrastructure services
Must have proven leadership skills and strategic planning capability
Must be ITIL certified and certified in Cybersecurity
Experience with applications and database is a plus
Must have experience with Disaster Recovery System Design and Recovery Planning
Experience with Enterprise Systems Monitoring and Management Tools required
Ability to work effectively and maintain partnerships with service vendors
Requires an understanding of, and a commitment to advancing the mission and core values of BRAC International and, the ability to incorporate them into the job setting and articulate them to staff
Must be proficient in written and spoken English.
Change Management
Project Management
Persuading and influencing
Implementation and management of infrastructure platforms or components like Unix, Windows, Storage Technologies, Databases, Middleware, Capacity Management, etc.
Proficient in Networking and Communications
Allocate and manage the resources, support and infrastructure required for any IT projects, products and services

How to apply:

If you feel you are the right match for the above-mentioned position, please apply by sending your CV and cover letter through email at: recruitment.tanzania@brac.net with a subject “Infrastructure and Cybersecurity Manager”.

Application deadline is 25.11. 2022.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted