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Henkel holds leading positions in both industrial and consumer businesses: Our portfolio includes well-known hair care products, laundry detergents, fabric softeners as well as adhesives, sealants, and functional coatings.
Cloud Engineer
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About this Position
The Cloud Engineer supports the development and operation of Henkel's enterprise multi-cloud platform environment, covering Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. The role focuses on building scalable cloud infrastructure, automation, and platform engineering solutions that support a centralized ecosystem serving global application teams and business units. As part of a hands-on engineering environment within Henkel's Cloud Organization, the position contributes to infrastructure engineering, cloud-native capabilities, and platform self-service that strengthen how enterprise solutions are deployed and scaled across Henkel.
What you´ll do
- Design, build, and optimize cloud infrastructure on Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform, including compute, networking, IAM, and storage services.
- Develop and maintain infrastructure automation solutions using Terraform and Ansible following Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices.
- Build and maintain CI/CD deployment pipelines supporting reliable multi-environment platform delivery and GitOps workflows.
- Support the provisioning and lifecycle management of cloud projects and resources such as VPCs, service accounts, landing zones, and platform blueprints.
- Contribute to the team's Internal Developer Platform (IDP) initiative by engineering self-service capabilities and reusable platform blueprints for application teams.
- Support API and agent gateway design, including model routing and FinOps tracking for LLM token consumption.
- Support platform security, identity management, and compliance capabilities across cloud-native environments.
- Collaborate with global and cross-functional teams including Platform Owners globally to deliver scalable and reliable enterprise platform solutions.
- Participate in disaster recovery planning and execution. • Optimize cloud-based solutions and infrastructure as part of the company's digital strategy.
- Contribute to the development of best practices and documentation for IT operations.
What makes you a good fit
- 2–3 years of hands-on experience in cloud engineering or DevOps roles
- Solid working knowledge of GCP or Azure - compute, networking, IAM, and storage fundamentals; experience with both is a plus.
- Hands on experince with infrastructure-as-code practices, preferably Terraform; Ansible is an advantage.
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and multi-environment deployment workflows.
- Familiarity with Linux environments, shell scripting (Bash), and container-based workloads.
- Understanding of Kubernetes or OpenShift and GitOps practices is an advantage.
- Basic familiarity with AI/LLM APIs such as Azure OpenAI or Vertex AI; hands-on experience is a strong plus.
- Experience with API gateway solutions (Azure APIM, Apigee, or similar) is a plus.
- Scripting experience with Python is considered a plus.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
- Ability to work independently and collaborate effectively across distributed, cross-functional teams.
- Proactive mindset with a passion for automation, engineering quality, and continuously learning new technologies.
Some perks of joining Henkel
- Flexible work scheme with flexible hours, hybrid work model, and work from anywhere policy for up to 30 days per year
- Diverse national and international growth opportunities
- Global wellbeing standards with health and preventive care programs
- Gender-neutral parental leave for a minimum of 8 weeks
- Employee Share Plan with voluntary investment and Henkel matching shares
- Comprehensive Health Insurance for employee + dependents
- Employee Assistance Programme provides a wide range of mental health and wellbeing benefits
At Henkel, we come from a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences. We believe the uniqueness of all our employees is the power in us. Become part of the team and bring your uniqueness to us! We look for a diverse team of individuals who possess different backgrounds, experiences, personalities and mindsets.
JOB ID: 26097365
Job Locations: Egypt, Cairo, Cairo
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I am interested in several jobs. Can I apply for multiple positions at the same time?
Yes – simply fill out your profile in our online application system. Once your online profile is complete, you can apply for multiple positions.
The job offer is written in English. Should I write my application in English as well?
Yes, please. As Henkel is an international company, you will be working with colleagues from all over the world, and English is our official company language. Generally, our recommendation is to please write the application in the same language as the job ad.
Do I get feedback during the application process about the state of my application?
Each position that we have open with Henkel is unique, and finding the right candidate is important for both the hired candidate as well as for Henkel. We want to make sure that both the candidate and the company are a good fit for each other. We will provide feedback to the candidates throughout the entire process.
Can employees move between business areas and/or to a different country?
Yes, in fact, it is our expectation that Henkel employees will want to grow and explore different career paths during their time with us. This helps to support the company on a broad, global level.
Our “Triple Two” philosophy promotes this expectation, by allowing you to work in at least two different roles, in two different business areas and in two different countries. The reason behind this philosophy is that we believe working in different roles, business units and functions is good for your personal development and improves your understanding of Henkel as a global company.
If I have questions regarding my application, who do I contact?
Our recruiting team will help you with all requests regarding your application. Contact the team here.