Senior DevOps Engineer- Part Time

Innovation is at the heart of what we do. At Implicit, natural language processing, machine learning, and data are at the core of our work.

We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our team in Cairo. As an engineer at Implicit, you will work closely with our data science and product teams to build the next-generation AI summarization platforms.

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will:

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, highly available cloud infrastructure on AWS
• Partner with product and sales teams to define and implement SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs
• Identify and lead initiatives that drive significant cost savings or revenue impact
• Implement and manage Infrastructure as Code using Kubernetes, Helm, and Terraform
• Own and maintain data stores, including capacity planning, monitoring, scaling, clustering, and backup/restore strategies
• Continuously improve monitoring and alerting systems to proactively prevent incidents
• Lead incident response efforts and conduct blameless postmortems to drive continuous improvement
• Build and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines to enable reliable and frequent deployments
• Improve system reliability, performance, and cost efficiency through automation and observability
• Develop and maintain infrastructure automation tooling using modern scripting and programming practices
• Collaborate closely with engineering teams to improve system design, deployment processes, and operational excellence
• Implement and enforce security best practices across infrastructure and services
• Support compliance initiatives, including SOC 2 Type II readiness and audit processes

Qualifications:

• 4+ years of hands-on industry experience in SRE, DevOps, or related roles
• Strong experience with AWS services, including: EKS, RDS Aurora, ECR, CloudWatch, IAM, VPC, Route 53, Certificate Manager, Secrets Manager, and CloudTrail
• Solid experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker and Kubernetes)
• Proficiency in Linux and shell scripting for automation
• Strong programming/scripting skills in Python and Bash
• Experience with CI/CD systems (Git-based workflows, CircleCI or similar tools)
• Hands-on experience with Helm charts, including templating and multi-environment deployments
• Strong understanding of networking fundamentals (HTTP, DNS, TLS/SSL) and troubleshooting
• Experience with AWS security best practices (IAM policy design, encryption, VPC isolation, auditing)
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English

Preferred qualifications, you have experience in:

• Experience with Karpenter for just-in-time provisioning and cost optimization
• Familiarity with SOC 2 Type II compliance frameworks and audit processes
• Experience with service mesh technologies such as Istio (traffic management, mTLS)
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform

What we offer:

• Competitive compensation packages
• Highest tier social and health insurance
• Flexible and open vacation policy
• Flexible working hours
• Certification and learning budget

Our interview process is as follows:

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

All interviews are conducted using Zoom Video. We make sure to respond to every application whatever the decision is.

Join Implicit and come work with some of the world's most talented data scientists, engineers, and thought leaders.