Principal Platform Engineer

The goal of our customer is empowering their engineers to efficiently build,
interact, test, and deploy their platform with safety and effectiveness. As a
Principal Platform Engineer, you will be a key technical leader responsible
for designing, building, and scaling our platform. You will work closely with
engineering, product, and security teams to create a highly reliable, secure,
and efficient infrastructure. Your expertise will drive innovation, ensure
high availability, and optimize performance across our cloud-native services. You should be able to identify, troubleshoot and resolve issues efficiently and effectively, with awareness of the customer SLAs.

Location: Cairo

About the customer: Our client is a global payments technology provider operating at the forefront of cloud-native card issuing and processing. They serve banks, fintechs, and enterprise clients with highly scalable, secure, and real-time transaction solutions. With operations spanning multiple continents, the company enables seamless digital payment experiences through advanced infrastructure, data-driven insights, and rapid innovation—making them a key player in the evolving financial services landscape.

Responsibilities

• Architect and develop scalable, secure, and resilient platform solutions for our applications with clear roadmap.
• Lead technical strategy for platform infrastructure, automation, and DevOps best practices.
• Enhance CI/CD pipelines to enable seamless deployments and fast iterations.
• Optimize infrastructure and deployment for performance, cost, reliability (HA/DR) and security.
• Implement observability solutions (monitoring, logging, tracing) for system reliability.
• Ensure compliance with industry security and regulatory standards.
• Mentor engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and innovation.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, security teams, solution architects and business stakeholders to align technical solutions with business needs.
• Provide reference and templates for the common patterns of use by engineering teams
• Build consensus across engineering teams on technical direction and implementation approaches
• Maintain clear and accurate operational documentation.
• Lead the evaluation and adoption of emerging technologies to enhance platform capabilities

Requirements & Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Science, Engineering or a related field
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, or platform engineering
• Strong expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration in production environments
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI/CD
• Strong programming/scripting skills in Python, Go, or similar languages
• Expertise in monitoring and observability (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
• Understanding of security best practices for cloud-native applications
• Excellent problem-solving skills and a track record of technical leadership
• Excellent team player and mentoring skills, with a track record of guiding cross-functional teams to achieve DevOps automation goals and enhance overall productivity
• You have worked in a production capacity with either PaaS/SaaS/IaaS environment
• You have worked with large scale distributed Systemo you are is recognized as a subject matter expert within teh company and has in-depth and/or breadth of expertise in own discipline and broad knowledge of other disciplines within their division.
• Abilities
  • Anticipates internal and/or external business challenges and/or regulatory issues; recommends process, product or service improvements
  • Solves problems that are typically unique, complex, require assessment of intangibles and have broad impact on the business
  • Typically operates with broad latitude in a complex environment. Exercises independent judgement in the methods, techniques and assessment criteria used to solve these
  • Contributes thought leadership to the development of divisional strategy
  • Leads project teams to achieve milestones and objectives
  • Required to communicate and influence regularly with divisional leadership, and progress of work may require influence of executive leadership across the company
  • Progression to this level is typically restricted based on business requirements plus demonstrated capability at the level

If you are passionate about technology and eager to work on challenging projects with a talented team, we would love to hear from you. Apply now and help us turn ideas into reality: [email protected]