The opportunity

EY's Cloud and Technology Consulting practice is expanding its hybrid cloud capability to serve enterprise, government and regulated-industry clients across the Middle East. We are looking for a Red Hat Engineer / Architect to help design, build, operate and improve Red Hat-based platforms across on-premises, hybrid and public cloud environments.

Based in Cairo, this hands-on, client-facing role combines platform engineering, architecture, automation, reliability and governance. You will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to translate business, security and regulatory requirements into scalable technical solutions

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Key responsibilities

Platform architecture and engineering

• Architect and implement Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform across on-premises data centres and public cloud, including multi-cluster and hybrid topologies.
• Design and maintain RHEL standard operating environments, including hardened images, patching baselines and lifecycle management using Red Hat Satellite.
• Build infrastructure automation using Ansible Automation Platform and GitOps tooling such as Argo CD and OpenShift GitOps.
• Design platform services including ingress, service mesh, API gateway integration, container registries, secrets management and certificate lifecycle.
• Define hybrid connectivity, workload placement and business continuity and disaster recovery patterns aligned with client requirements.

Operations and reliability

• Support day-two operations for production platforms, including cluster upgrades, capacity management, performance tuning and incident and problem management.
• Implement observability using Prometheus, Grafana, OpenShift monitoring and logging, with integration into enterprise SIEM and ITSM tooling.
• Define platform service levels, contribute to root-cause analysis and support continuous improvement.
• Develop operational runbooks, automated remediation and transition materials for client operations teams.

Open banking and digital platform enablement

• Provide platform foundations for API and microservices workloads, including high availability, mTLS, OAuth 2.0 security patterns, rate limiting and consent-management support.
• Help ensure platforms meet client expectations for availability, performance, auditability and data residency.
• Collaborate with API, integration and digital teams on non-functional requirements, environment strategy and CI/CD release pipelines.

Governance, risk and compliance

• Embed security and regulatory controls into platform design and operations in line with applicable client and industry frameworks.
• Implement compliance-as-code using OpenShift security controls, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security, Advanced Cluster Management policies and automated scanning.
• Support audits and regulatory reviews through control documentation, evidence preparation and remediation tracking.
• Maintain vulnerability and patch-management practices and contribute to cloud risk, data residency, sovereignty and third-party risk assessments.

Consulting delivery and practice contribution

• Participate in client workshops, design authority sessions and technical deep-dives, presenting recommendations to technology, architecture, security and risk stakeholders.
• Produce high-quality deliverables including high-level and low-level designs, architecture decision records, operating models and migration roadmaps.
• Contribute to proposals, solution shaping, estimates, demonstrations, proofs of concept and reusable reference architectures.
• Support the development of EY cloud and Red Hat capabilities through reusable assets, knowledge sharing and coaching of colleagues.

Skills and attributes for success

• Ability to translate business, security and regulatory requirements into practical technical controls and platform designs.
• Strong consulting presence, structured communication and confidence working with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• High standards of technical documentation, including architecture designs, decision records, runbooks and operational evidence.
• A collaborative mindset and interest in sharing knowledge and building team capability.

To qualify for the role

• 5 + years of relevant experience in infrastructure, platform engineering, cloud engineering or solution architecture, including hands-on Red Hat OpenShift delivery and operations.
• Strong knowledge of RHEL, OpenShift, Ansible Automation Platform and Red Hat Satellite.
• Experience supporting hybrid environments spanning on-premises infrastructure and at least one public cloud platform such as Microsoft Azure, AWS or Google Cloud.
• Solid Kubernetes knowledge across networking, storage, role-based access control and admission control.
• Experience applying security, risk, audit or compliance controls within enterprise or regulated environments.
• Understanding of API and microservices security patterns, including OAuth 2.0, OIDC and mTLS.
• Automation and scripting skills using Ansible, Bash or Python. Terraform knowledge is advantageous.
• Strong communication, structured problem-solving, documentation and stakeholder-management skills.
• A relevant degree or equivalent professional experience. Red Hat certifications are strongly preferred.
• Excellent written and spoken English. Arabic is advantageous.

Ideally, you'll also have

• Experience with Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management, Advanced Cluster Security, OpenShift Service Mesh, Quay or OpenShift Virtualization.
• Knowledge of private cloud technologies such as Red Hat OpenStack Platform.
• Experience with API management platforms hosted on OpenShift, such as 3scale, Apigee, Kong or Azure API Management.
• Cloud or architecture certifications, including Azure, AWS, Red Hat or TOGAF.
• Experience in a professional-services, systems-integration or technology-consulting environment.
• Experience contributing to RFP responses, solution estimates, demonstrations or client presentations.

What we offer

• Regional exposure through complex cloud and platform-transformation engagements across the Middle East.
• Development across Red Hat engineering, hybrid cloud architecture, automation, reliability and cloud governance.
• Collaboration with multidisciplinary teams across cloud, cybersecurity, architecture, data, integration and risk.
• Opportunities to contribute to reusable assets, delivery methods and the growth of EY cloud capability.

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