Senior Manager, Cloud DevOps

About the role

PwC's Advisory practice in Cairo is looking for a Senior Manager for its Cloud DevOps line of service. Reporting to the DevOps & Platform Practice Lead, the Senior Manager leads one or more DevOps and platform engagements end to end, turns the practice strategy into delivery, acts as design authority for the portfolio, manages client and stakeholder relationships and contributes to the growth of the practice.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the project team of tech leads and engineers, set objectives, direct and review their work and build a high-performance, collaborative culture.
• Act as design authority for solutions, applying and evolving practice standards, reference architectures and governance frameworks.
• Lead DevOps and platform engineering transformation engagements, driving adoption of new practices and ensuring ongoing compliance.
• Serve as key point of contact for clients and senior stakeholders, communicating progress, risks and business value and escalating to the Practice Lead where needed.
• Embed DevSecOps, reliability and compliance into platforms and processes, and act as escalation point for major incidents with root-cause analysis.
• Support the Practice Lead with proposals and solution shaping, and share knowledge and reusable assets with fellow Senior Managers.

Required profile

• 10+ years in software engineering and DevOps, including at least 3 years leading technical teams or tech leads.
• Proven track record delivering large-scale DevOps, cloud or platform engagements end to end.
• Experience leading, coaching and developing technical teams, including performance management.
• Ability to engage and influence senior stakeholders and clients, translating technical solutions into business outcomes.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT or Communications Engineering; fluent English (speaking and writing).

Required skills

• Software engineering background, ideally Java and microservices.
• Branching and deployment strategies (GitFlow, trunk-based development, blue-green, canary releases).
• Enterprise CI/CD and internal developer platforms with Jenkins, Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions and Gradle.
• Cloud architecture, preferably Azure; Docker, Kubernetes and Helm at enterprise scale.
• Terraform, ARM or CloudFormation, and configuration management tools.
• APM tools such as Datadog, SLOs, incident management and scripting in Python, Bash or Java.
• Agile delivery (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe) and ITIL familiarity.
• Nice to have: cloud/DevOps or architecture certifications, DevSecOps knowledge, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, message queues (RabbitMQ, Kafka, SQS), Selenium testing and consulting experience.