About the job
Who is Ezra?
Ezra provides B2B digital lending solutions for emerging markets in partnership with mobile and digital wallet operators and financial service providers. Ezra supports 24 operations in 23 countries, across Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Our key office locations are in Nairobi, Kenya and Dubai, UAE.
Our flagship products are Advance Credit Service (ACS), Nano and BNPL.
- ACS is an airtime or data advance offered to prepaid mobile subscribers at the point of low credit.
- Nano is a micro cash advance offered to mobile wallet users on demand.
- BNPL facilitates payment instalments for products and services
As a FinTech company, our business is entirely technology and data driven, from determining subscriber eligibility, generating relevant offers, managing risk, loan issuance, recovery, optimizing performance and reporting, reconciliation and billing.
Each day we process approximately 21M loan requests and 1.4 TB of data across our markets. This process needs to be robust, reliable, and secure.
But it doesn’t end there. We’re exploring new ways of using our platform and transactional data to improve our products and develop new product opportunities.
Job Overview
Ezra World is seeking a highly skilled and proactive Network Administrator to join our dynamic IT team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for maintaining and optimizing our network infrastructure across various markets, ensuring robust security, and supporting our diverse teams during market deployments.
Key Responsibilities:
- Oversee the daily operations of the company’s network infrastructure across different markets, ensuring high availability and optimal performance.
- Design and implement network security measures, including the management of firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and other security software/hardware to protect sensitive data.
- Configure and maintain IPsec VPNs, ensuring secure and reliable remote access for employees and support teams.
- Collaborate with various departments to facilitate and support market deployments, providing technical expertise and ensuring network requirements are met.
- Proactively monitor the network to anticipate and address needs, performance bottlenecks, and other potential issues before they impact business operations.
- Conduct network capacity planning to ensure that the network infrastructure can support current and future business requirements without any degradation of service.
- Manage and support enterprise-level internet Service Level Agreements (SLAs), acting as the primary point of contact for internet service providers and other network-related vendors.
- Document network configurations, changes, and procedures to maintain an up-to-date knowledge base for the IT team and other stakeholders.
- Provide training and support to team members and other employees to enhance their understanding of the network infrastructure and best practices.
- Stay abreast of new technologies and industry trends that could impact the company’s network and suggest improvements or upgrades when appropriate.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
- 3+ years experience as a Network Administrator or similar role.
- 3+ years of experience with IP management and routing, Firewall Configurations, VLANs, IPsec VPNs, Networking protocols (BGP, EIGRP)
- Professional Certifications in Networking such as CCNP, HCNP, JNCIS or equivalent are highly desirable.
- Professional Certifications in Network Security such as Checkpoint CCSA, Fortinet FCA.
- Strong understanding of network infrastructure and hardware with hands-on experience in firewall configuration, VPN management, and remote access solutions.
- Familiarity with network diagnostic, monitoring, and analysis tools.
- Understanding of network automation tools (Puppet, Chef)
- Solid understanding of network security and best practices.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to think strategically about network design and implementation.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences
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