# Staff Platform Engineer

**Company:** [Sumerge](http://jobs.workable.com/companies/fqLx2j2AYiWjKndG8P9ZmW.md)
**Location:** Cairo, Egypt
**Workplace:** hybrid
**Employment type:** Full-time
**Department:** Platform Engineering

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## 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.