System Administrator

About the Role

Mama Money is a who are we?growth-stage fintech on a mission to improve the financial lives of migrants and underserved communities across Africa and beyond. What started in 2015 as a cross-border payments service has grown into a multi-product financial platform — giving people the tools to send, save, and manage money on their own terms, at a socially fair price. Payments were just the beginning; today Mama Money is building the fuller financial toolkit our customers need, all under one roof.

Responsibilities

• You'll own the systems that everyone at Mama Money depends on but nobody thinks about until they break: identity and access, endpoints, VPN, SaaS administration, and the operational evidence our ISMS the regulators require.
• This is a hands-on role with real ownership. You're not filing tickets into someone else's queue, you're the person who decides how access is granted and revoked, and how we prove all of it during an audit.
• Some of this you’ll inherit and improve, but most of it you’ll build from scratch. A big part of the role is documenting and explaining, so clear writing matters as much as technical depth. After-hours: Occasional after-hours work may be needed to respond to incidents.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in a regulated environment (finance, health or similar); FSCA, SARB or FIC exposure is a plus
• Familiarity with ISO 27001, SOC 2 or an equivalent standard
• MikroTik, Ubiquiti or similar network hardware
• Kubernetes and container basics (CKA a bonus)
• Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code (Terraform Associate a bonus)