SRE/DevOps Engineer

We are seeking an experienced DevOps / site reliability engineer to join our new engineering team in Cairo. The site reliability engineer would ensure that our suite of servers and databases are operating smoothly.

As a site reliability engineer, you will:

• Establish monitoring tools to increase service reliability.
• Achieve continuous integration and deployment to all of our services.
• Create and develop tools/scripts to automate builds and backups.
• Conduct regular on-call duties and address issues pertaining to operations.
• Engage in capacity planning and demand forecasting activities.
• Design, implement and manage our different clouds including client environments. 
• Meet with our clients to understand deployment requirements and limitations. 
• Work with our product and sales teams to design and implement SLIs, SLAs, and SLOs. 
• Identifies projects that result in substantial cost savings or revenue.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code on Kubernetes using Helm and Terraform.
• Maintain our datastores, monitor the load, design and implement backup and restore plans, scaling, clustering (sharding/replication).
• Continuously enhancing our monitoring and alerting to prevent incidents.
• Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.

Our interview process is as follows: 

1. A screening call (30 mins).
2. 1-2 technical interviews with a member of the Reliability Engineering team (60 mins).
3. Culture interview (60 mins).
4. 3 reference calls. 
5. Final meeting with our VP of Engineering or CTO (60 mins).

Required qualifications:

• 1-3 years of industry experience.
• Experience of at least one of the cloud providers: AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Solid experience with container runtimes and orchestrators: Docker and Kubernetes.
• Know your way around Linux and the Unix Shell.
• Strong knowledge of HTTP and debugging networking issues within Kubernetes.
• Solid experience with continuous integration systems using Git and CircleCI.
• Confident to debug and write scripts in Python and Bash.
• Very strong verbal and written communication skills in English are a must.
• Strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive.

Preferred qualifications:

• Large-scale distributed systems: Kafka and ElasticSearch
• Operating microservice architecture
• Security
• Helm
• Monitoring tools: Prometheus
• Designing tests and quality assurance
• Infrastructure as code tools like Terraform