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Sumerge

Staff Platform Engineer

Cairo
Level
Staff

Not stated in the posting: salary, work type, visa.

Open. First seen 6 October 2026.

About the role

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.

What this role asks for

Standard for DevOps / SRE / cloud roles

CI/CD · Docker · Kubernetes · Linux

Common in DevOps / SRE / cloud postings at any company.

Read against Sumerge's other open postings on this site.

Posting history

Reposted once since 28 July 2026: a posting for this role in Cairo was taken down and the role was posted again.

  • 6 October 2026 – open (this posting)
  • 28 July 2026 – closed 24 September 2026

Salary context

16 other open postings titled Staff Platform Engineer state a salary: median USD 169,500 to USD 223,000 a year.

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