IT roles · Egypt
DevOps engineers in Egypt. On your pipelines, in your cloud.
GrowAxis employs DevOps and cloud engineers who build and run your pipelines, infrastructure and monitoring, in Cairo and as part of your team. At GrowAxis’s 2026 rates, a mid-level engineer costs about $2,720 a month, a junior about $1,500 and a senior about $5,690, all in: pay, social insurance, equipment and management.
01Estimate
What DevOps engineers in Egypt cost
GrowAxis’s 2026 all-in rate is filled in for each role and level. Change the level or the number of people and see the monthly price in your currency.
Rates are set in US dollars; other currencies use the Central Bank of Egypt’s dollar rate on 3 November 2026, the riyal and dirham through their dollar pegs. Change them to today’s.
| Role | People | All-in rate a person, a month |
|---|---|---|
| Mid-level DevOps and cloud engineer | 1 | USD 2,720 |
- A month
- USD 2,720
- A year
- USD 32,640
- People
- 1
What the rate includes
- All in: pay, Egypt’s social insurance and salary tax handling, equipment and management, from $1,500 a month per person.
- Rates differ by role and level; the free 30-minute growth assessment sets the scope, and the proposal after it confirms the price before anything starts.
- Not tax or legal advice.
02Who it’s for
Built for founders who…
…need the skill now and can’t hire it fast enough at home
…want one engineer first and a pod later
…want the work in your tools, not a vendor’s
03What’s included
What a GrowAxis DevOps engineer covers
- 01
CI/CD
Build, test and release pipelines in GitHub Actions, GitLab CI or Jenkins.
- 02
Cloud infrastructure
AWS, Azure or Google Cloud, written as code with Terraform or the cloud’s own tools.
- 03
Containers
Docker and Kubernetes set up, sized and kept current.
- 04
Monitoring and on-call
Alerts, dashboards and an agreed on-call rota for your hours.
- 05
Security and cost
Access rules, secrets and backups, and a monthly look at the cloud bill.
- 06
Employment and HR
GrowAxis employs the engineers in Egypt and handles payroll, equipment and reviews. You direct the work.
04Costs
DevOps engineers in Egypt: the 2026 cost
- Junior
- About $1,500 a month, all in.
- Mid level
- About $2,720 a month, all in.
- Senior
- About $5,690 a month, all in.
- How it is worked out
- GrowAxis’s 2026 all-in monthly rate per person: pay, social insurance, equipment and management, from $1,500. The free growth assessment sets the scope; the proposal after it confirms the price.
- DevOps pay in Egypt
- Levels.fyi’s median total pay for DevOps engineers in Egypt is EGP 438,823 a year. The 25th percentile is EGP 324K, the 75th EGP 619K and the 90th EGP 1.32M.
- DevOps pay in the US
- Levels.fyi’s median total pay for DevOps engineers in the United States is $153,000 a year, with $120,000 at the 25th percentile and $190,000 at the 75th.
- DORA’s delivery metrics
- DORA tracks five: change lead time, deployment frequency and failed deployment recovery time for throughput, and change fail rate and deployment rework rate for instability.
- Demand in Egypt
- Software development roles, with cloud engineers named among them, made up over 58% of 3,200 openings at ITIDA’s employment fairs from October 2023 to March 2024.
Sources: Levels.fyi: DevOps engineer salary in Egypt (updated 4 November 2026); Levels.fyi: DevOps engineer salary in the United States (updated 3 November 2026); DORA: software delivery performance metrics (updated 5 January 2026); ITIDA: software development most in demand in Egypt’s ICT job market (17 April 2024). A summary for planning, not legal advice.
05How it’s installed
In your team, employed by GrowAxis.
You agree the role and the goals with us. We put forward the engineer, you meet them, and they join your tools, channels and ceremonies like any colleague. GrowAxis employs and equips them, reviews performance with you and reports every month. Start with one, and grow into a pod.
- Discovery call
- Role and goals agreed
- You meet the engineer
- Onboarded into your tools
- Reviewed every month
Measured by
- Deployment frequency
- Lead time for changes
- Time to restore
- Change failure rate
- Cloud cost
Related
- GrowAI: automate, act, predict
- Software development pod
- IT outsourcing in Egypt
- Staff augmentation in Egypt
- QA engineers in Egypt
- Data engineers and analysts in Egypt
- SNOOD: case study
- Read: What it costs to hire a software developer in Egypt in 2026
- Read: Onboarding an offshore developer: the first two weeks
- Read: Staff augmentation, managed team or outsourcing: how to choose
06FAQ
DevOps engineers in Egypt: what founders ask first.
At GrowAxis’s 2026 rates, about $1,500 a month for a junior, $2,720 a mid-level and $5,690 a senior, all in: pay, social insurance, equipment and management.
Yes, within an agreed rota. Cairo is one hour ahead of Central Europe for most of the year, so European hours are covered in the normal day; for the US, an evening shift in Cairo covers the East Coast morning.
AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, Terraform, Docker and Kubernetes, and the CI/CD and monitoring tools you already use.
Levels.fyi’s median total pay for DevOps engineers in Egypt is EGP 438,823 a year (4 November 2026). At GrowAxis’s 2026 rates, a mid-level DevOps engineer costs about $2,720 a month, all in: pay, social insurance, equipment and management.
Levels.fyi’s median total pay for DevOps engineers in the United States is $153,000 a year (3 November 2026). A senior DevOps engineer in Cairo costs about $5,690 a month, all in, at GrowAxis’s 2026 rates.
DORA, the research programme behind the common DevOps measures, now tracks five: change lead time, deployment frequency, failed deployment recovery time, change fail rate and deployment rework rate. GrowAxis measures the first four with you, plus cloud cost.
No. GrowAxis employs the team in Egypt under its Labour Law 14 of 2025, so you need no entity, bank account or payroll there.
Yes, or on its own. With GrowAI the same people also build and run AI agents and automation on your company data.
Free growth assessment
Find out which DevOps engineer profile you need.
30 minutes. We look at the work, your stack and your team, then propose the profile and what it costs. The engineer works on their own in your team, or with GrowAI, the AI engine.