Location
Cairo, Egypt Delivery Center
Cloud Engineering Senior Technical Lead, Cairo, Egypt
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You will be involved with enhancing our engineering strategy within Cloud & Engineering and be a key figure in maintaining DevOps excellence throughout Cloud Native & App Development. In addition, you will be a technical and inspirational leader who builds motivated, inclusive teams – there are no limits for your creativity and vision.
We will encourage you to engage with the tech community - both internally and externally, to become a subject matter expert and help shape our opinions on modern technologies and spearhead best practice development.
Our Cloud Engineering team focuses on enabling our client’s end-to-end journey from On-Premise to Cloud, with opportunities in the areas of: Cloud Strategy, Cloud Development, Cloud Integration & APIs, Cloud Migration, Cloud Infrastructure & Engineering, and Cloud Managed Services. We help our clients see the transformational capabilities of Cloud as an opportunity for business enablement and competitive advantage.
Cloud Engineering supports our clients as they improve agility and resilience, and identifies opportunities to reduce IT operations spend through automation by enabling Cloud. We accelerate our clients towards a technology-driven future, leveraging vendor solutions and Deloitte-developed software products, tools, and accelerators.
As a Cloud Engineer you will:
• Work with a team to realize the ultimate solution for infrastructure and network configuration/automation and deployment for AWS/GCP/Azure.
• Build and innovate to replace large-scale manual operating processes with scripts and applications.
• Contribute to build and deploy automation support (CI/CD) in AWS/GCP/Azure.
• Develop infrastructure as code and testable infrastructure in AWS/GCP/Azure.
• Develop appropriate metrics to demonstrate performance and operational efficiency by also thinking on how to script and automate better (value) chain monitoring and (chain) testing.
• Driving analysis, design and development of automation tools for configuration, provisioning, deployment, development, and operational tasks.
• Work cross-functionally with various App DevOps teams to test and drive amazing results in an international context.
• Design automated systems management solutions with self-repair/healing as the goal.
• Focus on reducing technical lead time for infra and network for all DevOps teams.
• Provide huge positive customer impact by reducing downtime and costs.
Experience:
• Bachelor's or higher in computer science, electrical engineering, or equivalent.
• Strong and Hands-on Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation), JSON templates and creating IAC scripts.
• Strong and Hands-on Experience with Puppet and scripting tools like Bash and Powershell.
• Expertise in Linux and Windows Servers and Databases.
• Expertise in AWS/GCP/Azure (traditional and cloud networking concepts + monitoring & logging concepts).
• Security (working in enterprise production environments) and first-time-right mindset.
• Hands-on Experience using configuration management software like Ansible (preferred).
• Experience with CI tools such as Bamboo and Jenkins (preferred).
• Experience with Build Tools such as Ant, Maven, and Gradle (preferred).
• Good understanding of build pipeline, packaging, and artifact management.
• Automation background working with the CI/CD tool chain comprising of JIRA, Github, Jenkins, Bamboo, Confluence, Packer, CloudFormation, Terraform, Docker, SonarQube.
• Proficient level in programming and scripting languages such as Python and/or Ruby.
• Have containerized the deployments through Docker containers and orchestrated through Kubernetes.
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As an engineer with a strong base of software engineering or IT Ops experience, it will be your job to build and operate technical platforms and systems that underpin some of our most exciting client projects.
This role touches upon a variety of aspects of Platform and Site Reliability Engineering, such as infrastructure & environment management and build, continuous delivery and deployment and code governance.
We are looking for individuals who can embed themselves with developers, business analysts and test managers; ensuring that systems are built in a way that makes them fast, maintainable and able to handle frequent incremental change.
What you must have:
• 10+ years experience with cloud hyperscalers, such as GCP, AWS or Azure.
• Experience in cloud implementation such as application development and infrastructure as code (Terraform, AWS SAM, CloudFormation).
• Confident with key DevOps practices - CICD, IaaS, Containerisation and Deployment pipelines.
• Provide expertise in one or more of the following areas: SysAdmin, IaaS, Full Stack development, virtualisation/containerisation, environments and configuration management.
• Experience with python/Bash/Go scripting.
• Understand the importance of Observability and have built systems to focus on early insight into issues using monitoring and alerting.
• Pioneer DevOps/SRE best practices with a curious mind and an ability to mentor junior employees.
• Able to design and build frameworks or toolsets to be reused by the wider engineering community.
• Extensive experience and expertise across the Splunk platform, its architecture and distributed components including premium apps (ITSI, Enterprise Security, Phantom, etc…).
• Experience with data streaming technologies.
• Experience of agile methodologies and associated toolsets and code repositories.
• Strong collaboration and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Self-motivated and organised person.
• High level of attention to detail, the ability to think architecturally at ‘big picture’ and able to translate this into practical implementation.
Desirable
- Cloud certified with experience.
- Required strong technical skills and demonstrated experience in each of the following areas:
- Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills
- Deliver right solution architecture, automation and technology choices starting from experimentation and proof of concept phases of new analytical models
- Demonstrated teamwork and collaboration in a professional setting
- Flexible and willingness to work on different projects and programming.
- Coordinate the work of a small team of junior engineers, or the build of a sizable application or tooling component.
Qualities we are looking for:
You’re a natural at taking initiative: Someone who brings out the best in others and is a brilliant listener. You will help to grow our engineering practice without compromising standards, integrity or culture. You enjoy the ever-changing landscape of technology and love to keep on top of changes and improvements.
You’re great at communicating ideas: Someone who can clearly communicate their thoughts and ideas over any medium, adapting technical content to match their audience.
You enjoy mentoring others: Someone who is open to paying their skills forward, building up our junior talent and supporting other brilliant engineers.
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Making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. We strive to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.
We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. We nurture a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it’s only when you’re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.
Your expertise is our capability, so we’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through world-class development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you’ll learn how to lead.
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A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You’ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you’ll never stop growing, whatever your level.