Eric Kimonye
Head of IT Infrastructure @ Absa Bank Kenya
About
My career has been shaped by a strong belief in the power of technology to unlock growth, enhance experiences, and transform organizations. I specialize in Business transformation, IT operations, capacity planning, and compliance. I’ve successfully led high-stakes projects that improved performance, reduced risk, and aligned technology with evolving business needs.Beyond systems and strategy, I am deeply committed to people—building collaborative teams, mentoring future leaders, and creating environments where innovation thrives. I bring a hands-on, impact-driven approach to leadership, blending technical expertise with a passion for empowering others and delivering sustainable results.I continue to invest in my growth and stay ahead of emerging trends, driven by curiosity and a relentless pursuit of excellence. My goal is always clear: to lead transformation that matters—for people, for business, and for the future.
Kenya
Nairobi County
Financial Services
Amazon EC2, Cost Control, Cost Management, Stakeholder Management, Stakeholder Engagement, Senior Stakeholder Management, Project Stakeholder Management, IT Audit, IT Operations, IT Infrastructure Design, Infrastructure Projects, VMware Infrastructure, Infrastructure, IT Infrastructure Management, Infrastructure Management, Storage Area Networks, Blade Servers, System X, LPAR, Storage Architecture
Experience
Head of IT Infrastructure
Absa Bank Kenya
Nairobi, Kenya
Infrastructure & Operations Lead | Reporting to CIO – Kenya Own and deliver nationwide IT infrastructure operations, ensuring high availability, resilience, and secure service delivery. Govern data center operations, audits, and regulatory compliance, reducing operational and business risk. Lead network, server, database, storage, and backup services, enabling scalable and reliable business platforms. Drive cloud cost optimization and value realization, aligning cloud spend to business outcomes. Execute service improvement initiatives, improving stability, performance, and customer experience. Manage strategic vendors and SLAs, ensuring performance, accountability, and cost efficiency.
Senior Manager System Infrastructure
KCB Bank Group
Manager Cloud Infrastructure and Capacity planning
Safaricom PLC
Kenya ,Nairobi
Principal - IT Infrastructure support operations
Safaricom PLC
Snr System Administrator Infrastructure Support
Safaricom PLC
10 years wealth of experience in system administration,virtualization and cloud technologies.Passionate about improving business process in delivering to customers My skills can be summarized as below. Hardware Support UNIX and Linux Servers (AIX 5.3 6.0 7.0 HP UX, 10 ,REDHAT.5, 6 ,7.). Hardware Support IBM P series -P595 -P795 , P880E Blade center H ,system X . HP RX series. Huawei Kunlun Huawei RH and E9000 series Storage >IBM DS Series 8886, 8700 ,8300, 8100, 4800 V7000 Flash >EMC Vmax 200, vmax 400 , >Huawei OceanStore > HP 3par 7200 SAN switch Brocade Gen4 Gen 5 NAS CELLERA CENTERA ISILON, Operating systems and Softwares AIX 5.3 6.1 7.1 Red Hat 5 ,6 Vmware support and implementation. vmware 6 Others Commvault simpana Veritaz netabackup Scrum certified / ITL certified
Server System Engineer
IBM
Airtel project-
I was working under server systems operation SSO for IBM IT support services.I deployed and supported systems in Zambia,Gabon and kenya I was involved in day to day operational support of Unix and storage based systems Hardware. IBM P series (P595) ,system X 3650 3850 ,Blade centre H Solaris. Sunblade 6000 ,Sunfire 440 HP HP bl series i.e BL870c etc Huawei Tecal X6000 E6000 blase server,RH1285,OceanStor S2600T/S5500T/S5600T/S5800T OPERATING System Red hat 4 5 6 AIX 6.0 Solaris HP UX SUSE Centos Others Oracle 10g 11g SAN , NAS Certified Ethical Hacking (security) Roles. Backup of data to storage systems to (Tivoli Storage Manager- TSM).Netbackup creation of LPARS and VIO clients in pSeries IBM machines both for test and production environments. Activation of OS Services to customer Administration of IBM Blade Centre H. Storage Allocation to servers from IBM Disk storage (DS8300 & DS8800) Hardening of servers in Redhat, AIX SOLARIS HP UX Enterprise Systems Administrator Patching of unix operating systems as per advisory. Lead in linux Redhat patch management. Proactive Data centre monitoring and reporting ensuring that system are 100% compliant to IBM standards troubleshooting of day to day support Unix challenges
Applications and Storage Engineer
Huawei
specializing with IBM 595 (power 6), IBM X3850, tecal X6000 Oceanstore TIVOLI, RH2285 SAN and NAS storage Operating systems -Redhat,AIX,Solaris,windows servers
Customer Support technician
iWayAfrica
supporting email,network,domain installation and comisining of internet service cyberoam monitoring
support officer
University of nairobi
implementation of oracle ERP;
PROJECT ENGINEERING TECHNICIAN
Swift Global
WI-MAX installation and commisioning firewal set ups network troubleshooting
Education
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT)
ICT Management
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT)
bachelor of science in Information technology
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