Senior DevOps Engineer

About the job

mylo is a fintech platform dedicated to helping millions of people and businesses thrive by providing accessible and responsible financial solutions. Whether you’re purchasing a mobile phone, a new jacket, a flight ticket, a comfy couch, or even covering school tuition, mylo enables you to buy now and pay later at thousands of points of sale across Egypt. Born out of B.TECH—Egypt’s leading electronics and appliances retailer with over 27 years of experience in offering buy now, pay later solutions—mylo brings a legacy of trust and innovation to the fintech space. All mylo products are fully Sharia-compliant, ensuring ethical and inclusive financial practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage multi-cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Automate provisioning, scaling, and maintenance using IaC tools (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation).
• Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines with integrated testing, security scans, and quality gates.
• Monitor systems using Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Datadog; manage logging via ELK, Loki, Fluentd.
• Set up proactive alerting, conduct capacity planning, load testing, and cost optimization.
• Design fault-tolerant, highly available systems and implement backup and disaster recovery strategies.
• Enforce security best practices (IAM, secrets, network policies) and ensure compliance via scanning and standards.
• Lead incident response, perform root cause analysis, and document runbooks and post-mortems.
• Mentor engineers, collaborate cross-functionally, and drive adoption of modern DevOps tools and practices.
• Promote DevOps culture, shift-left testing, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science, IT, or equivalent experience.

• 5+ years in DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Engineering roles with production-grade infrastructure.
• Proficient in at least one cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Hands-on with IaC tools: Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, GKE).
• Skilled in CI/CD tools: Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD.
• Monitoring/logging with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack.
• Scripting in Bash, Python, Go, or Ruby.
• Strong grasp of networking, IAM, and cloud security best practices.
• Experience with databases (RDS, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB).
• Excellent troubleshooting, communication, and mentoring abilities.
• Comfortable with on-call, incident response, and disaster recovery planning.
• Familiar with Agile/Scrum and SDLC.
• Preferred certs: AWS DevOps Pro, CKA, Azure DevOps Expert, Google Cloud DevOps Engineer.