Senior DevOps Engineer

Description

As a senior DevOps engineer II, you will shape how infrastructure is built, secured, and operated across the Mondia platform. You will own the delivery experience for engineering teams - making pipelines, deployments, and environments faster, safer, and more autonomous. You will drive the design of shared cloud infrastructure, observability strategy, and disaster recovery alongside a distributed infrastructure team spanning Hamburg, Dubai, and Cairo. In this role, you combine deep technical expertise with informal leadership to raise the standard of operational excellence across the group.

Roles and responsibilities

Architect and maintain cloud infrastructure on AWS, designing multi-account network topologies, service deployments, and disaster recovery strategies

Own and evolve CI/CD pipelines across multiple product lines, with a focus on reliability, speed, and maintainability

Own and evolve infrastructure as code (OpenTofu/Terraform, AWS CDK/TypeScript), maintaining reusable module libraries and managing remote state

Define and refine deployment standards including environment promotion, rollback strategies, blue/green and canary releases

Build and maintain container platforms (Docker, AWS ECS) with a focus on image security and runtime hardening

Own the observability platform (New Relic, Prometheus, Grafana) — design alerting strategies, define SLOs, and lead incident response

Design and implement disaster recovery strategies; own RTO/RPO targets and ensure recovery readiness across critical services

Implement and enforce security best practices including AWS security tooling, secrets management, and IAM policy design

Collaborate with development teams to shorten feedback loops and make deployments more predictable and repeatable

Participate in on-call rotation and ensure 99.9% platform availability

Requirements

Behavioral skills

Proven leadership skills with experience guiding and mentoring engineers

Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced, distributed environment

Strong automation mindset and problem-solving skills with the ability to follow through to completion

Clear communicator who translates technical risk into business language

Technical competencies/skills

Strong AWS experience (ECS, Aurora, CloudFront, FIS, cost optimisation)

Infrastructure as code expertise (OpenTofu/Terraform, AWS CDK/TypeScript)

Advanced GitLab CI/CD - multi-project pipelines, runners, artifacts at scale

Docker, container security, and container orchestration (ECS/Kubernetes)

Production-grade scripting (Python, Shell)

Observability platform ownership (New Relic, Prometheus, Grafana)

Advanced AWS networking (Transit Gateway, VPN, FortiGate)

AWS security tooling (GuardDuty, Security Hub, Config) and secrets management

Linux performance tuning and hardening

AI-assisted development — integrates AI tooling into daily workflows

Disaster recovery design and implementation

Nice to have:

Ansible for configuration management

Kubernetes (in addition to ECS)

AWS certifications (Solutions Architect Professional, DevOps Engineer Professional)

Security certifications (CISSP, OSCP)

Education

University degree in computer science, information technology, or equivalent practical experience

Experience

7+ years in DevOps/SRE/infrastructure roles, with at least 2 years at a senior level

Licenses and certifications

AWS certifications are highly desired; security certifications (CISSP, OSCP) are a plus

Physical demand and working conditions

Professional office environment - hybrid model, Cairo office; participation in on-call rotation

Benefits

Social insurance

Health insurance for employee and family

The company will contribute up to EUR 25 per month towards staff perks

Benefit from our performance-based bonus scheme, in line with company policy

EUR equivalent salaries paid in EGP