Egypt's domestic payments infrastructure operator
Egyptian Banks Company operates the national payments backbone—ATM networks, clearing houses, mobile wallet connectivity, and domestic card schemes. The tech stack is heavily Oracle-dependent (Database, Exadata, RAC, Data Guard), but active projects show a major migration underway to PostgreSQL alongside new disaster-recovery and DevOps automation initiatives. This infrastructure-modernization effort, paired with steady hiring weighted toward senior engineers and ops roles, indicates a shift from legacy monolithic systems toward cloud-native, distributed architectures.
Egyptian Banks Company (EBC) is a public payments-infrastructure operator founded in 1995, headquartered in Cairo. It runs four core services: the 123 Shared Cash Network (ATM interoperability across Egypt), an Automatic Clearing House for interbank fund transfers, Meeza Digital (a 32-million-wallet mobile payment network), and the Meeza National Card Scheme. The company is backed by the Central Bank of Egypt and major national banks. With 201–500 employees and all hiring concentrated in Egypt, EBC serves the entire domestic financial system.
Oracle Database, Exadata, RAC, and Data Guard form the core; supplemented by PostgreSQL, Cassandra, Kubernetes, Redis, and VMware infrastructure. Linux and Windows servers, Ansible automation, and Dell EMC storage round out the environment.
Major projects include migrating Oracle and SQL Server databases to PostgreSQL, automating DevOps for PostgreSQL deployment, building ETL pipelines, upgrading the IT environment, implementing new backup and disaster-recovery systems, and enhancing cost and forecasting processes.
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