About Kutlay
Cloud-native DevOps Engineer with 14+ years in IT, led migration of 250+ microservices to AWS/GCP via Kubernetes and Terraform. Expert in IaC, GitOps, and secure CI/CD at scale. Delivered HA pipelines and automated infrastructure for gaming, fintech, and telecom industries. Proven success in optimizing performance, reducing cloud costs, and improving developer velocity.
English
Native or bilingual
Turkish
Native or bilingual
Remote only
Primarily works remotely
Experience
- Wildz GroupSenior DevOps EngineerApril 2022 - Today (4 years and 2 months)
- Built an automated pentest pipeline using OWASP ZAP on Kubernetes; reports are auto-published to Confluence monthly for compliance.
- Migrated core infrastructure (GitLab, Elasticsearch, Clickhouse, Prometheus, Grafana, Airflow) from Docker Swarm to Kubernetes on AWS EKS with Terraform, Ansible and Sops/Ksops for secret management.
- GetirPlatform EngineerJanuary 2021 - January 2022 (1 year)Istanbul, Türkiye
- Managed Infrastructures with IAC approach using AWS CDK in TypeScript.
- Set up CI/CD pipelines for data department applications using ArgoCD and Bitbucket CI.
- CommencisCloud DevOps EngineerJanuary 2020 - January 2021 (1 year)Istanbul, Türkiye
- Migrated a fintech company’s full infrastructure to AWS from scratch in 2 weeks, including networking, core services, and CI/CD; achieved PCI-DSS compliance.
- Reduced server usage from 14 to 3 by containerising and migrating a high-traffic project to AWS ECS, significantly cutting infrastructure costs.
- Contributed to system design, infrastructure setup, and DevOps workflows.
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Education
- Bachelor of Science DegreeTobb Economy and Technology University2011Bachelor of Science Degree