Optasia is a fully enabled B2B2X financial technology platform covering scoring, financial decisioning, disbursement and collection. We are committed to enabling financial inclusion for all. We are changing the world our way.
Since company’s inception, over a decade ago, we have grown to become a global leader in the Fintech fields, constantly expanding and adding new solutions, offerings, and untapped monetization opportunities for all our partners and clients.
As member of the Systems Engineering team in Optasia, your primary objective is to ensure the resilience, integrity, and recoverability of the organization’s data and systems by leading the Backup and Disaster Recovery function with technical excellence and operational discipline.
What you will do
- Lead the Backup and Disaster Recovery team and provide technical and operational direction.
- Design, implement, and maintain backup, retention, and disaster recovery policies across all environments.
- Manage configuration, operations & maintenance (O&M), and incident handling for backup and DR systems.
- Oversee and optimize backup and restore processes for Veeam, Barman, and NiFi environments.
- Coordinate DR operations using VMware vRealize Automation (VRA) and related VMware tools.
- Conduct and document regular backup and DR tests, ensuring data integrity and recovery readiness.
- Develop metrics, dashboards, and reports to monitor backup success rates, storage utilization, and SLA compliance.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Infrastructure, Application, and Security) to align backup and DR strategies with business needs.
- Ensure adherence to regulatory, compliance, and resilience requirements.
- Mentor and develop team members, fostering a culture of reliability and continuous improvement.
What you will bring
- 5+ years of experience in IT infrastructure, with at least 2 years in backup or disaster recovery leadership.
- Strong expertise in Veeam, Barman, and NiFi backup technologies.
- Hands-on experience with VMware-based DR solutions (VRA, vCenter, SRM, or similar).
- In-depth understanding of backup strategies, retention policies, RPO/RTO, and data lifecycle management.
- Proven experience in incident handling, O&M processes, and cross-team coordination.
- Proven experience in managing a team.
- Familiarity with regulatory and compliance frameworks (e.g., ISO 27001, GDPR, or similar).
- Excellent problem-solving, documentation, and communication skills.
Why you should apply
What we offer:
💸 Competitive remuneration package
🏝 Extra day off on your birthday
💰 Performance-based bonus scheme
📲 💻 All the tech gear you need to work smart
Optasia’s Perks:
🎌 Be a part of a multicultural working environment
🎯 Meet a very unique and promising business and industry
🌌 🌠 Gain insights for tomorrow market’s foreground
Optasia’s Values 🌟
#1 Drive to Thrive: Fully dedicated to evolving. We welcome all challenges and learning opportunities.
#2 Customer-First Mindset: We go above and beyond to meet our partners’ and clients’ expectations.
#3 Bridge the Gap: Knowledge is shared, information is exchanged and every opinion counts.
#4 Go-Getter Spirit: We are results oriented. We identify any shortcomings that hold us back and step up to do what’s needed.
#5 Together we will do it: We are committed to supporting one another and to understanding and respecting different perspectives, as we aim to reach our common goals.
Top Skills
What We Do
We deliver Optasia, the AI Platform enabling financial access for the next billion customers. We are changing the world our way.
Α versatile, data-driven B2B2X (business-to-business-to-customers and SMEs) financial technology platform for MNOs, mobile wallet operators and financial institutions, which provides them with accurate credit scoring for responsible financing decision-making.
We support intelligent credit decisions, enable a broad range of financial services development and drive successful business models. All with ease, through our AI-led fully-automated decisioning algorithm, which allows us to efficiently make millions of decisions on financing, based on sophisticated data analysis.
Thanks to our technology and network we provide powerful flywheel effects with repeatable and scalable growth levers, to help our partners grow and enable financial access to retail & SME customers across numerous markets.
Operating since 2012 as Channel VAS and expanded in more than 35 countries in Africa, Middle East, Asia and LATAM with focus in emerging markets, Optasia Enabling credit decisions for an average of 116 million customers a month and had more than 980 million addressable subscribers in 2023, continuing to expand to new markets globally.
Optasia has been chosen as an investment opportunity by top firms such as Abu Dhabi's Waha Capital in 2017, and Ethos, a leading South African investment company in late 2018. The company also obtained ISO 27001 Certification in late 2021. Founded as Channel VAS in 2012, we became Optasia in 2022, incorporating a brand identity that more broadly reflects our capabilities.
