Head of Systems
About the role
The Head of Systems at Calamatta Cuschieri Moneybase plc is responsible for overseeing the company's infrastructure, including cloud, on-premises systems, networks, and corporate IT. This leadership role combines technical direction with hands-on support, ensuring infrastructure reliability, security, and resilience. The position involves leading and developing the Systems team, collaborating with Information Security and other technology teams, and driving modernization, automation, and continuous improvement. Key responsibilities include setting and delivering the infrastructure roadmap, managing budgets and vendor relationships, overseeing cloud and on-premises environments, ensuring corporate IT standards, and maintaining disaster recovery and security controls. The company is a fintech group with a strong focus on technology and professional development, offering benefits such as internal training, study leave, and career growth opportunities.
Must have
- 8+ years in infrastructure or systems engineering, with at least 3 years leading a team.
- Deep, hands-on Azure experience: compute, networking, storage, Entra ID, governance and cost management.
- Strong VMware vSphere, ESXi and vCenter experience in production.
- Confident Linux administration, plus working knowledge of Windows Server.
- Hands-on with Fortinet FortiGate or an equivalent next-generation firewall, and with load balancers in high-availability setups.
- Practical experience implementing Infrastructure as Code in production environments.
- Experience running Cloudflare or a comparable edge, DNS and WAF platform.
- A track record of designing and testing backup and disaster recovery.
- Experience running corporate IT and end-user services, including Microsoft Intune, Microsoft 365, Entra ID identity and access management, and joiner, mover and leaver processes.
- Able to explain technical risk and trade-offs clearly to a non-technical CEO.
Nice to have
- Experience in financial services, payments or another regulated environment.
- Hands-on with SIEM and EDR platforms, including their AI and anomaly detection features.
- Certifications such as Azure Administrator or Solutions Architect, VCP or Fortinet NSE. Experience counts more than certificates.
Technologies
- Anomaly Detection
- Ansible
- Azure
- Cloudflare
- DNS
- EDR
- Microsoft Entra ID
- Fintech
- Firewall
- Fortinet
- IAM
- Infrastructure as Code
- Intune
- Linux
- Machine Learning
- Microsoft 365
- SIEM
- Terraform
- Virtualization
- VMware
- WAF
- Windows
- Windows Server
Highlights
The company offers ongoing internal training, study leave, sponsorship for further studies, opportunities for career growth, and a variable bonus linked to KPIs. The group employs over 210 people from 27 countries and manages assets over 3 billion. Application requires confirmation of the truthfulness of provided information and agreement to the company's Candidate Privacy Notice.
Jobs across Sri Lanka, watched for you.Colombo, Sri Lanka