DevOps Engineer
Smartera 3S Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt
IT Services and IT Consulting · 51-200 employees
About the role
You will own and evolve cloud infrastructure while building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines to ensure platform reliability and scalability. Additionally, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive automation and implement security best practices.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates must have 3+ years of professional experience in DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering with strong proficiency in Kubernetes and cloud platforms. You are also required to have hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools and scripting languages like Python, Bash, or Go.
Full description
We are looking for a skilled and passionate DevOps Engineer with 3+ years of hands-on experience to join our engineering team. In this role, you will own and evolve our cloud infrastructure, build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, and ensure the reliability, scalability, and security of our platform. You will work closely with development, security, and operations teams to drive a culture of automation and continuous improvement.
Responsibilities:
CI/CD & Automation:
- Design, build, and maintain end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI,GitHub Actions, or CircleCI.
- Automate build, test, deployment, and release workflows to reduce manual effort and time-to-market.
- Implement GitOps practices and manage infrastructure-as-code using Terraform or Pulumi.
Kubernetes & Container Orchestration:
- Manage, monitor, and scale Kubernetes clusters (EKS, GKE, or AKS) in production environments.
- Define and maintain Helm charts, manifests, and deployment strategies including canary and blue-green releases.
- Troubleshoot cluster and application-level issues, ensuring high availability and performance.
Cloud Infrastructure:
- Architect and maintain infrastructure across one or more major cloud providers: AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Optimize cloud resource utilization, cost efficiency, and security posture.
- Implement networking configurations, VPCs, load balancers, DNS, and CDN setups.
- Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure is a plus — familiarity with managed services such as EKS, GKE, AKS, RDS, Cloud Storage, and IAM is highly valued.
Monitoring, Reliability & Security:
- Set up and maintain observability stacks using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or ELK.
- Define SLOs/SLAs and implement alerting, on-call runbooks, and incident response procedures.
- Enforce security best practices: secrets management (Vault, AWS Secrets Manager), RBAC, and vulnerability scanning.
Collaboration & Culture:
- Partner with software engineers to improve developer experience and reduce deployment friction.
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to DevOps best practices documentation.
- Participate in architecture reviews and contribute to technical roadmap planning.
Requirements
- 3+ years of professional experience in a DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Platform Engineering role.
- Strong hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or equivalent).
- Proficiency with Kubernetes — cluster management, networking, storage, RBAC, and troubleshooting.
- Experience with at least one major cloud platform: AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Solid experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools: Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi.
- Proficiency in scripting languages: Bash, Python, or Go.
- Working knowledge of containerization with Docker and container security best practices.
- Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or similar).
- Strong understanding of networking fundamentals: DNS, HTTP/S, TCP/IP, load balancing.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Cloud certifications: AWS Solutions Architect, CKA/CKAD, GCP Professional DevOps Engineer.
- Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd).
- Familiarity with GitOps tools such as ArgoCD or Flux.
- Experience with database operations and managed DB services (RDS, CloudSQL, Aurora).
- Knowledge of security frameworks, compliance standards (SOC 2, ISO 27001), and DevSecOps pipelines.
- Experience in a fast-paced startup or high-growth engineering environment.
Core Tech Stack:
Kubernetes (EKS/GKE/AKS) Terraform / Pulumi AWS / GCP / Azure
GitHub Actions / GitLab CI Docker / Helm Prometheus & Grafana
Python / Bash / Go ArgoCD / Flux Vault / Secrets Manager
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