Staff Platform Engineer

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# Staff Platform Engineer > Sumerge · Cairo, Egypt (Hybrid) · Full-time · Posted 2026-04-28 **Workplace:** hybrid **Department:** Platform Engineering ## 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. ## Apply [Apply at Sumerge](https://apply.workable.com/sumerge-1/j/182162F720/apply) --- Powered by [Workable](https://www.workable.com)