IT Operation Manager

Full time @ZainCash in Technology / Internet
  • Baghdad, Iraq
  • Post Date : 21/10/2025
  • Apply Before : 13/11/2025

Job Detail

  • Job ID 6832
  • Career Level  Manager
  • Experience  6-10 Years
  • Gender  Male or Female
  • Industry  Finance
  • Qualifications  Bachelor s Degree

Job Description

About ZainCash

ZainCash Iraq is a leading mobile wallet in Iraq and recognized as Forbes top Fintech company of 2023 and 2024 as well as GSMA’s Best Mobile Innovation Supporting Humanitarian Situations. The company offers a range of consumer and business services including local and international money transfer, bill payments, companion payment cards, payroll, aid disbursement, and more. For more information, please visit

 Responsibilities:

  • Oversee Level 2 support for both business-critical applications and infrastructure, ensuring prompt resolution of incidents and service disruptions.
  • Monitor all aspects of the tech stack including servers, microservices, databases, APIs, message queues, and network/security layers.
  • Own configuration management across applications and infrastructure, maintaining consistency, version control, and rollback procedures.
  • Implement structured change and deployment management practices with proper validation, documentation, and rollback plans.
  • Lead incident response activities, ensuring proper root cause analysis (RCA) across application and system domains.
  • Ensure all operations align with Central Bank regulations, PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, IOS 20000 and fintech data integrity standards.
  • Manage vendor and third-party relationships for both hardware and platforms (core banking, payment gateways, APIs).

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or a related field.
  • 7+ years of experience in IT operations or infrastructure and application management, with at least 3 years in a leadership role.
  • Hands-on experience in supporting production applications, understanding software deployment processes, and troubleshooting APIs and database-backed systems.
  • Proven hands-on experience in IT Service Management for ticketing, workflows, SLA design, automation, and reporting is mandatory.
  • Familiarity with Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment tools, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift), and monitoring Application Performance Monitoring tools (Datadog, Prometheus, ELK).
  • Experience with ITSM systems and structured ITIL.
  • Proven hands-on experience on Configuration Management Database(CMDB).
  • Experience in fintech, banking environments is strongly preferred.

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