# Switch Engineer Job Kenswitch

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Company: Kenswitch

Category: Banking & Financial Services

Location: Kenya

Work type: Full-time

Work arrangement: On-site

Published: 2026-10-21

Expires: 2026-12-05

## Job Description

IT Jobs, Kenswitch Jobs. Switch Engineer configuring and managing switch platforms and card management systems and supporting payment solution integrations and testing, requiring a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering or IT and minimum 3-5 years relevant work experience with Postilion and ISO 8583 knowledge, in a payments technology environment, on-site role.

Purpose

- To support the successful implementation and integration of payment processing solutions by testing developed applications and functional specifications against agreed requirements. The role also provides customer and user support after go-live, helping to resolve issues and maintain system stability, while ensuring work is completed within agreed budgets and timelines and to the required quality standards

### Key Responsibilities

Switch Configuration 

- Configuration and management of switch platforms (e.g. Postilion) to ensure accurate transaction flow across the payment network. 

- Support ISO 8583 messaging protocols and APIs during integrations and support for financial processing. 

- Implement and monitor business rules and routing logic, minimize downtime, and optimize network performance. 

Card Management & Issuance. 

- Ensure that all the Card and E-Channels Systems are properly managed and deliver business results and a delightful customer experience. 

- Comprehensive knowledge of the end-to-end card life cycle. 

- Proven experience in supporting, setting up, and troubleshooting card management systems, i.e., postcard, across all layers 

- Proven knowledge of Card industry Security Standard -PCI-DSS 

Release, Defect & Regression Management 

- Conduct User Acceptance Testing (UAT) before live release of projects. 

- Finalizing testing activities and confirmation of readiness before solutions are released to customers. 

- Deploys changes into the production environment and manages rollback plans to ensure zero-downtime deployments 

Education & Experience 

- A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / Electronic Engineering / Applied Physics / 

- Information Technology or a related discipline 

- Minimum 3–5 years’ relevant work experience.  

- Relevant professional certifications may include Postilion User and Specialized modules 

- certificates, ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library, PMP (Project Management 

- Professional Certification), MCSP (Microsoft Certified Solution Provider), Partners product 

- certifications (Thales HSM, Double Take, ScoreBridge, Stratus, VMWare)

### How to Apply

Applications can be sent to HR@kenswitch.com, with “Switch Engineer” as the subject

## Requirements

Apply by email: hr@kenswitch.com

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