Staff Platform Engineer
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Apply to this job Cairo, Egypt on site Until 8/21/2026 4+ years exp First posted April 29, 2026 Last posted April 29, 2026
Job description
Our Staff Platform Engineer Designs, implement, maintain, and continuously improves the organization's platforms and infrastructure, ensuring high availability, performance, security, scalability, and operational efficiency
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and optimize secure, scalable platform infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions.
- Manage Kubernetes/OpenShift platforms and containerized workloads while ensuring high availability, performance, and operational resilience.
- Deploy, administer, and optimize IBM Cloud Pak Stacks, Confluent, Elasticsearch, and related platform technologies.
- Ensure effective monitoring, incident response,, logging, alerting, and observability solutions to proactively identify and resolve platform issues.
- Strengthening platform security through access management, vulnerability remediation, compliance, backup, and disaster recovery practices.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive DevOps adoption, automation initiatives, and continuous platform improvements.
- Maintain technical standards, operational documentation, deployment guides, and support audits and operational reviews
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or Diploma in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 4+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, or related disciplines.
- Strong experience with Linux/Windows administration, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, scripting, Infrastructure as Code, Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK.
- Experience with monitoring and observability platforms, networking, production support, and service reliability practices.
- Exposure to IBM Cloud Pak Stacks, Confluent, and Elasticsearch is highly desirable.
- Strong knowledge of incident management, troubleshooting, security best practices, backup, disaster recovery, and performance optimization.
- Excellent problem-solving, planning, communication, and collaboration skills with the ability to lead technical initiatives.
Benefits
About this role
Summary
Design, implement, and optimize scalable, secure platform infrastructure and DevOps solutions
Job title
Staff Platform Engineer
Experience level
4+ years
Minimum experience
4+ years exp
Industry
software
Location requirements
Cairo, Egypt; remote work not specified
Salary
Not specified
Management role
No
Skills & keywords
Required skills
LinuxKubernetesOpenShiftDockerCI/CDIaCPrometheusGrafanaELKsecuritydisaster recovery
Preferred skills
IBM Cloud PakConfluentElasticsearch
Specializations
platform engineeringDevOpscloud infrastructureKubernetesCloud Pak
Locations
Structured locations inferred from the posting.
Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt
On-site City
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