Mid-Level Cloud Engineer

About Paymob:
Paymob is a leading FinTech company revolutionizing payment solutions in the MENA region. At Paymob, we believe in enabling businesses to thrive by offering secure, innovative, and scalable tools that simplify payments for everyone.
We’re proud to power millions of transactions for some of the biggest names in the region, with a team of innovators spread across Egypt, UAE, KSA and Oman.
We foster a value driven culture focused on continuous learning, empowering our people, and collaborating as one global team to create real impact.

Main Job Purpose:
Building and maintaining cloud infrastructure. solving complex problems residing in the cloud, deploying applications, monitoring operations, and managing enterprise solutions.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Plan, implement, and grow cloud infrastructures, then build, release, and manage the configuration of all production systems.
•  Work closely with Customers, engineers, test engineers, product owners, security team and managers to understand requirements, adhere to and implement best practices and standards around Cloud Infrastructure, Network & Security.
• Measure, optimize, and tune system performance to ensure that systems will run reliably, securely, and are highly available in a 24/7 production environment.
• Ensure necessary system security by using best in class cloud security solutions (such as Security Hub).
• Set up a monitoring stack through cloud watch and PagerDuty to ensure stability, reliability, proper logging, and audibility.
• Troubleshoot the system and solve problems across all platform and application domains reported by the monitoring and submitted through the ticketing system of fully documented issues, actions taken, and steps for resolution and coordinate technical resolution of major incidents, production issues to help come up with hotfixes and resolutions.
• Define and document best practices and strategies regarding application deployment and infrastructure maintenance and recommend process and architecture improvements on cloud.

What We're Looking For: 

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, communications engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.

• Minimum 2-3 years of experience in Cloud.

•  Strong background in Linux/Unix administration.

• Strong experience with using AWS (EC2, EKS, ECS, S3, Route 53, Elastic Cache, Elasticsearch, RDS, SQS, SNS, and others) and experience implementing standard methodologies.

• Strong familiarity with other clouds (such as Azure, OCI, VMware)

• Strong notions of security best practices (e.g., using IAM Roles, etc.)

• Experience with monitoring solutions such as CloudWatch, and the PagerDuty stack.

• Experience with Linux Based Operating systems (CentOS, Redhat, and Ubuntu) Linux administration.

• Experience of managing windows operating systems.

• Ability to troubleshoot distributed systems.

• Experience with serverless approaches using AWS Lambda is a plus.

• An understanding of writing Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), using tools like Cloud Formation or Terraform.

• Strong Experience of IP networking, VPNs, DNS, load balancing, and firewalling.

Why You’ll Love It Here
At Paymob, our people are at the core of everything we do. Our culture is built around values that drive how we work, grow, and succeed together:
·      We offer competitive compensation packages and performance driven incentive programs.
·      We offer a flexible hybrid work model that supports both in office collaboration and remote productivity.
·       We invest in continuous career coaching to support your growth and long-term development.
·      We collaborate across borders, embracing diversity and shared success.