Career with BRAC Tanzania Finance LTD

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.

Infrastructure and Cybersecurity Manager

To ensure the efficient and cybersecure design, installation, and operation of IT infrastructure at all data centres (physical or cloud-based), in Head Office and branch offices.

Job Responsibilities:

• Works with IT team and strategic service partners to design systems architecture, build and deploy at BTFL offices
• 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 requirements
• Ensures an effective and validated Disaster Recovery infrastructure exists for each branch office
• Develops with BI IT, 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 at BTFL for all system design and implementation activities
• Works with BI IT to protect both cloud and on-premises Data Centers via effective security, storage, backup/recovery and disaster recovery techniques
• Adheres to audit and compliance expectations and continually seeks to improve system controls and cybersecurity
• 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 responsibilities

• Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation to achieve the programme’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.
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Required Qualifications and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree Computer Science or related field
• Minimum 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 databases a plus
• Must have experience with Disaster Recovery System Design and Recovery Planning
• Experience with Enterprise Systems Monitoring and Management Tools required
• Windows Server (AD, DNS, DHCP, GPO)
• SIEM, EDR/XDR, vulnerability scanning experience
• Firewall and Web applications configurations and monitoring experience (Fortigate)
• 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.
• Proficiency in Networking and Communications
• Allocate and manage the resources, support and infrastructure required for any IT projects, products and services

Employment type: Fixed Term

Job Location: Country Head Office, Dar es Salaam

If you feel you are the right match for the above-mentioned position, please follow the application instructions accordingly:

Email your CV and cover letter, mentioning the job title (Infrastructure and Cybersecurity Manager) in the subject line at recruitment.tanzania@brac.co.tz

Only complete applications will be accepted and short-listed candidates will be contacted:

Application deadline: 27th December 2025

BRAC is committed to safeguarding children, young people and adults, and expects all employees and volunteers to share the same commitment. We believe every stakeholder and every member of the communities we work with has the right to be protected from all forms of harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation - regardless of age, race, religion, gender, status as an individual with a disability or ethnic origin. Therefore, our recruitment policy and procedure include extensive background checks and disclosure of criminal records to fully ensure safeguarding.

BRAC is an equal opportunities employer