Head of Distributed Systems (IT Infrastructure)

A GLIMPSE ABOUT CRÉDIT AGRICOLE EGYPT:

Crédit Agricole Egypt Since its launch in 2006, Crédit Agricole Egypt has succeeded to become a strong player on the economic scene, positioning itself as the Reference European Bank in Egypt. Aiming to become a leading innovation-driven sustainable bank, Crédit Agricole Egypt is committed to bring its international expertise to the local market to serve its clients and drive the sustainable development in line with Egypt's national priorities.

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In addition, for being an active contributor to the local economy, the bank is committed to support the development of the Egyptian community and the respect of the environment.

Job Summary:

Lead the IT infrastructure team across legacy, modern, and air-gapped platforms. Establish the organization's DevSecOps practice and define governance for air-gapped AI environments.

Key Qualifications & Experience:

Professional Progression & Leadership:

• Experience: Minimum 12–15 years in enterprise IT infrastructure engineering.
• Leadership: Over 5 years managing cross-functional infrastructure and DevSecOps teams.
• Background: Proven experience in highly regulated sectors like banking or telecommunications.
• Vendor Management: Experience negotiating agreements with enterprise hardware and software providers.

DevSecOps & AI Infrastructure (Critical Focus):

• AI Security: Formed, participated in creation, or utilized frameworks for AI data sanitization and prompt-injection defense.
• MLOps Foundations: Built and / or managed internal platforms tailored for localized AI workloads.
• Compliance Strategy: Led end-to-end audits for strict frameworks like ISO 27001 and SOC 2.
• Automation Engineering: Strong background using configuration management tools like Ansible, Terraform and Puppet.
• Team Upskilling: Proven track record of transitioning traditional systems administrators into AI and DevSecOps fluent engineers.

Multi-Platform & Air-Gapped Infrastructure:

• Legacy & Modern Systems: Managed diverse platforms including Windows Server, Linux, and legacy mainframes/midranges.
• Enterprise & Core Systems: Deep past experience with enterprise cluster environments, such as Unix / Linux platforms, Virtualization, Oracle Exadata, or similar systems.
• Air-Gapped Isolation: Architected isolated Directory services, localized DNS, and offline identity management.

Enterprise Storage, Backup and Resilience:

• Storage Optimization: Sold understanding of SAN / NAS technologies, experience executing zero-downtime block and file storage migrations is highly preferable.
• Disaster Recovery: Designed DR topologies using SAN-to-SAN replication , Virtualization technologies and Active Data Guard or similar technologies.
• Immutable Backups: Full understand (and preferably managed) enterprise backup suites like Networker, PPDM, NetBackup, Data Domain, or similar technologies.

Certifications & Education:

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Science or Information Technology from respectable and recognized university
• Cloud & Containers: Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), OpenShift, Rancher or equivalent container orchestration technology mastery.
• Methodology: ITIL Foundation certification or deep change, incident and problem management literacy.