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 guide the Hardware & Virtualization team in maintaining a stable, well-structured, and efficiently scaled infrastructure, ensuring that all server, storage, and VMware platforms operate smoothly and remain aligned with business and lifecycle requirements.
What you will do
- Lead the Hardware & Virtualization team to ensure operational excellence, capacity optimization, and service continuity.
- Oversee the full lifecycle of servers, storage systems, SAN/fiber switches, and VMware environments — from procurement to deployment.
- Lead SAN administration activities including zoning, multipathing, WWN management, and performance troubleshooting.
- Manage end-to-end deployment of new hardware: racking, cabling, zoning, configuration, and integration into production environments.
- Coordinate and execute hardware procurement activities, including ordering new equipment, validating BoMs, and working with vendors for quotations, delivery, and support.
- Define and enforce infrastructure configuration standards and documentation practices.
- Perform capacity planning for on-premise and third-party hosted environments, including sizing for upgrades and new deployments.
- Manage incident resolution, O&M activities, and escalation with vendors or support providers.
- Supervise firmware, Storage OS and ESXi upgrades, ensuring minimal downtime and rollback preparedness.
- Maintain accurate inventory management through tools such as Device42 and SSMC.
- Track End of Support and End of Life for hardware and coordinate timely replacements or migrations.
- Administer support contracts and ensure SLA compliance with vendors and service providers.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver migration projects and infrastructure improvements.
- Provide leadership, mentoring, and technical guidance to team members.
- What you will bring
- 5+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, with at least 2 years in a leadership or senior technical role.
- Strong hands-on knowledge of VMware virtualization technologies.
- Experience managing enterprise server and storage platforms, including configuration, maintenance, and lifecycle management.
- Practical experience with SAN environments, FC fabrics, zoning, and fiber switch administration.
- Strong capability in racking, cabling, configuring, and integrating servers, storage arrays, and SAN switches.
- Experience with procurement processes: reviewing hardware requirements, validating configurations, and coordinating vendor orders.
- Familiarity with monitoring and inventory tools such as SSMC and Device42.
- Proven ability to manage capacity planning, incident management, and O&M in complex environments.
- Proven ability to manage a small team.
- Solid understanding of firmware and hypervisor upgrade procedures.
- Experience handling hardware support contracts, EOS/EOL tracking, and vendor coordination.
- Excellent organizational, 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.
