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| ASA Microfinance (U) Ltd |
Data Centre & Cloud Mgt Officer Job Post
Location: Jobs in Uganda 2025 - 2026
Work Hours: Full-time, 08 hours per day
Salary:
UGX
No. of vacancies: 01
Deadline: June 12 2026
Hiring Organization: ASA Microfinance (U) Ltd
Job Details:
ASA Microfinance Uganda Ltd (ASA Uganda) is a for-profit, non-deposit taking Microfinance Institution, operating as a microfinance company and regulated by the Uganda Microfinance Regulatory Authority (UMRA). ASA Microfinance Uganda Ltd is also a member of the Association of Microfinance Institutions of Uganda (AMFIU). ASA Uganda commenced operations in 2013. ASA Uganda is a subsidiary of ASA International, one of the world’s largest international microfinance institutions globally and operates in 13 countries in Africa and Asia. The company was listed in the premium segment on the London Stock Exchange in July ’2018. ASA Microfinance (U) Ltd is seeking for professional, confident, self-motivated, and committed team players to reinforce its capacity by filling the following vacant positions:
Data Centre & Cloud Mgt Officer
Reporting Relationships: Roles that report to this position directly and indirectly.
Stakeholder Management: Key stakeholders that the position holder will need to liaise/work with to be successful in this role.
Job Title: Data Centre & Cloud Mgt Officer
Reports to: Infrastructure Operations Manager
Department: IT
Grade: VI
Direct Reports: N/A
Internal: All departments.
External: Vendors & Consultants
Job Purpose: To administer and optimize ASA Microfinance Uganda Ltd.'s data centre infrastructure and cloud environments, ensuring availability, scalability, resilience, and compliance for all mission critical systems.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Data Centre Operations & Infrastructure Management (30% weighting):
- Manage on-prem data centre facilities including racks, cabling, power, cooling, and physical security controls.
- Ensure high availability of compute, storage (SAN/NAS), and virtualization platforms.
- Enforce hardening standards for hypervisors, and cloud environments.
- Maintain asset inventory and lifecycle management of infrastructure components.
Cloud Platform Administration & support (15% weighting):
- Provision and manage workloads across public/private cloud environments (IaaS/PaaS).
- Implement cloud governance (tagging, cost controls, access policies, workload isolation).
- Optimize cloud architecture for performance, scalability, and cost efficiency (FinOps alignment).
- Support compliance with regulatory requirements (e.g., central bank, data protection laws).
Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery (25% weighting):
- Design and manage enterprise backup strategies (full, incremental, differential).
- Ensure backup integrity, encryption, offsite storage, and retention compliance.
- Regularly test restoration processes to validate data recoverability.
- Maintain DR architecture (active-active, active-passive, or hybrid models).
- Define and enforce RPO/RTO targets for critical systems (CBS, payments, USSD).
- Conduct periodic DR drills and failover testing with documented outcomes.
Capacity Planning & Optimization (20% weighting):
- Monitor compute, memory, storage, and IOPS utilization across environments.
- Forecast infrastructure needs based on business growth and digital adoption.
- Optimize virtualization and cloud resource allocation.
Vendor & SLA Management (10% weighting):
- Manage cloud providers, co-location vendors, and hardware suppliers.
- Track SLAs, uptime guarantees, and support responsiveness.
- Support procurement and technical evaluation of infrastructure solutions.
Ideal Job Specifications:
Academic qualifications: University degree in Information technology/Computer Science/Electrical Engineering/Telecommunications or related field.
Professional training: Training and/or certification in below is added advantage: Data center virtualization e.g. VMware Administration; Cloud environments e.g. Azure, AWS Certified Solutions.
Desired work experience: Two years' experience in Data center integration, administration, monitoring & support in medium-to-large organizations.
Technical Competencies:
- Practical knowledge of Virtualization & Resource Optimization.
- Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Engineering knowledge.
- Storage, Backup, Recovery & Data Protection tools management skills.
- Hybrid Infrastructure Architecture (On-Prem & Cloud) design & integration knowledge.
Behavioural Competencies:
- Ability to maintain clarity and structure during outages, failovers, and high-impact incidents.
- Strong control over third-party service delivery, performance tracking, and accountability enforcement.
- Proactive capacity planning, DR readiness, and lifecycle management.
- Ability to support evaluation of trade-offs between performance, cost, and availability with a strong bias toward resilience.
Application procedure
Applicants who meet the above requirements are invited to submit their application letter, Curriculum Vitae, copies of relevant academic and professional qualifications, contact details of three (03) professional referees, and a day-time telephone number via email only to:
The Head Human Resource & Administration
ASA Microfinance (U) Ltd
Plot 5195 Buye--Kigowa, Ntinda
P.O. Box 245, Ntinda
Kampala, Uganda
Email:recruitment@asauganda.com
Email Subject: Job Title Applied For
Application Deadline: 12th June 2026
Please note that ASA Microfinance (U) Ltd recruits on a rolling basis; therefore, applications will be reviewed and processed continuously until the position is filled.
ASA Microfinance (U) Ltd does not charge any fees at any stage of the recruitment process. All official communication will be sent strictly from an @asauganda.com email address.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI), and anti-racism are integral to ASA's mission and values. We are committed to fostering a workplace where all employees feel valued, represented, and connected.
ASA Microfinance (U) Ltd is an equal opportunity employer and seeks to attract and select a diverse workforce, providing equal opportunity to all qualified candidates regardless of race, age, gender, class, ethnicity, disability, location, or religion.
Date Posted: 2026-05-19
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