Senior Cloud Engineer (AWS)
RackspacePosted 2/13/2025
Senior Cloud Engineer (AWS)
Rackspace
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Job Summary
Rackspace Technology is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer (AWS) to join their team in Egypt. The role involves designing, automating, and deploying services on AWS, utilizing DevOps techniques and infrastructure-as-code tools. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience in cloud and software engineering, solid understanding of AWS infrastructure, and expertise in scripting languages like Python and Bash. They will work with engineering teams on various projects, including large-scale migrations, and collaborate with customers to educate them on Continuous Integration/Deployment. With a focus on innovation and customer satisfaction, Rackspace Technology offers a dynamic work environment and opportunities for growth.
Job Description
Rackspace Technology is a leading provider of expertise and managed services across all the major public and private cloud technologies. We’ve evolved Fanatical Support to encompass the entire customer journey — providing Fanatical Experience™ from first consultation to daily operations. Our passionate experts combine the power of proactive, always-on service and expertise with best-in-class tools and automation to deliver technology when and how our customers need it.
You will be part of a team designing, automating, and deploying services on behalf of our customers to AWS in a way that allows these services to automatically heal themselves if things go south. We have deep experience applying DevOps techniques in virtually every industry. Every week is different and the problems you will be challenged to solve are constantly evolving. We know and understand DevOps. We build solutions using infrastructure-as-code so our customers can refine and reuse these processes again and again - all without having to come back to us for additional deployments.
Location: Remote (you must live in Egypt)
What you'll be doing
- Working with engineering teams on a wide variety of projects such as large scale migrations.
- Writing infrastructure as code as (CloudFormation, Terraform).
- Utilizing CI/CD pipelines, configuration management, containerization, etc. to develop the most successful methods for project completion.
- Linux/Windows administration, automated deployments, scripting (Bash/PowerShell/Python).
Required Qualifications
- Recommended 5years experience in Cloud and Software Engineering.
- Solid understanding of the overall AWS Cloud infrastructure (EKS, EC2, RDS, S3, VPC, CloudFormation, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch, etc.).
- Service architecture and containerization, such as kubernetes.
- Experience with scripting languages like Python and/or Bash.
- You are comfortable interacting with customers and have the ability to communicate and educate Continuous Integration/Deployment: Git, Jenkins, etc.
Nice to have
- Solid understanding of AWS infrastructure and networking security.
- Knowledgeable of configuration management frameworks such as Puppet, Chef or Ansible.
- Working with kubernetes package manager (helm, kustomize).
- Monitoring and logging systems for containerized applications (Prometheus, Grafana, fluentbit)
- AWS Certifications.
- Kubernetes Certifications.
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About Rackspace Technology
We are the multicloud solutions experts. We combine our expertise with the world’s leading technologies — across applications, data and security — to deliver end-to-end solutions. We have a proven record of advising customers based on their business challenges, designing solutions that scale, building and managing those solutions, and optimizing returns into the future. Named a best place to work, year after year according to Fortune, Forbes and Glassdoor, we attract and develop world-class talent. Join us on our mission to embrace technology, empower customers and deliver the future.
More on Rackspace Technology
Though we’re all different, Rackers thrive through our connection to a central goal: to be a valued member of a winning team on an inspiring mission. We bring our whole selves to work every day. And we embrace the notion that unique perspectives fuel innovation and enable us to best serve our customers and communities around the globe. We welcome you to apply today and want you to know that we are committed to offering equal employment opportunity without regard to age, color, disability, gender reassignment or identity or expression, genetic information, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity status, military or veteran status, nationality, ethnic or national origin, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or any legally protected characteristic. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
