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We provide cross-border payment infrastructure to banks, fintechs, platforms, and global businesses — enabling them to accept payments securely, make payouts, and access FX and other vital financial services. We bridge the gap between the continent and the global economy, empowering local enterprises to transact with the world and enabling global players to operate effortlessly within Africa.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">We aren't just moving money. We are building the seamless, secure, and efficient financial ecosystem that connects Africa to the globe and beyond.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(31, 56, 100); font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">About the role</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">To secure the organization’s infrastructure end-to-end by enforcing strong security controls, institutionalizing monitoring discipline, and driving clear operational ownership across cloud and on-prem environments.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">This role ensures that security is built into infrastructure by design, controls are enforced, not assumed, monitoring is proactive and actionable.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(31, 56, 100); font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">What you will be doing every day</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Network Security strategy and  Architecture: Lead the design and evolution of secure network architecture (on-prem, hybrid, cloud), define and enforce network segmentation, zero trust, and least privilege models, establish secure design standards for all infrastructure and application connectivity partner with engineering and cloud teams to embed security-by-design</span></li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Firewall &amp; 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