Ahmet G.
DevOps Engineer
Ahmed is a seasoned DevOps Engineer with eight years of commercial experience, including two years in Java development and six years dedicated to DevOps.
He has strong expertise in cloud platforms, container orchestration, CI/CD management, as well as monitoring, logging, and incident management.
A standout achievement in his career was his role with Anadolu Efes, where he served as the sole DevOps engineer on a greenfield project. Ahmed managed the project from inception to production, handling tasks such as provisioning Azure resources, creating CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, managing Helm Charts, and establishing release processes. Known for his result-driven approach, Ahmed consistently delivers reliable and maintainable solutions that meet project demands.
Main expertise
- Keycloak 3 years
- Microservices 3 years
- Jenkins 3 years
Other skills
- SonarQube 4 years
- Bash 4 years
- Python 2 years
Selected experience
Employment
Devops Engineer
Ultra - 2 years 1 month
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Managed infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), ensuring high availability and performance;
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Created and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Gitlab CI to streamline the development and deployment process;
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Managed Kubernetes Engine workloads with Helm charts and ArgoCD for efficient deployment and scaling;
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Managed infrastructure as code with Terraform, enabling scalable and maintainable environments;
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Handled third-party integrations such as Cloudflare, VPN, Akamai Cache, Aiven, and Mongo Atlas to ensure seamless operations;
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Actively participated in on-call rotations, managing monitoring, incident response, and issue resolution;
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Focused on cost monitoring and implemented strategies for cost reduction across infrastructure operations.
Technologies:
- Technologies:
- Keycloak
- Microservices
- Bash
- AWS Lambda
- AWS ECS
- Amazon CloudWatch
- NGINX
- AWS
- Google Cloud
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Linux
- Helm
- Terraform
- AWS S3
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Devops Engineer
DFX5 - 1 year 1 month
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Created CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodeBuild and CodeDeploy to automate deployment processes for clients;
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Managed workloads on ECS and EKS clusters to ensure scalable and efficient cloud infrastructure;
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Managed infrastructure as code using Terraform and AWS CloudFormation templates for consistent and repeatable environments;
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Handled storage, networking, and monitoring solutions for customers, ensuring optimal performance and security in their AWS environments.
Technologies:
- Technologies:
- SonarQube
- Strapi
- AWS Lambda
- AWS ECS
- Amazon CloudWatch
- NGINX
- AWS
- Docker
- Linux
- Terraform
- AWS S3
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Devops Engineer
Anadolu Efes - 7 months
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Worked on an integration project featuring 60+ Spring Boot and Quarkus microservices with Apache Camel, serving as a key integration point for the company;
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Provisioned and managed resources on Azure, including OpenShift, virtual machines, and managed services;
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Created CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins to automate and streamline deployment processes;
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Developed Helm charts and managed deployments to ensure smooth, scalable rollouts;
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Designed comprehensive release and deployment processes to enhance operational efficiency;
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Installed and configured Keycloak, ELK Stack, Redis, Nexus, and Nginx for secure and optimized application management;
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Built a monitoring infrastructure using Prometheus and Grafana to ensure system health and performance tracking.
Technologies:
- Technologies:
- Keycloak
- SonarQube
- Microservices
- Jenkins
- Bash
- NGINX
- AWS
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Helm
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Devops Engineer
PIA - 2 years
PIA (Vodafone NeXT Project)
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Created and monitored CI/CD pipelines on Jenkins, tailoring them to specific business requirements;
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Configured and monitored application deployments on OpenShift, including setting up liveliness and readiness probes, environment variables, connection secrets, and config maps based on application needs;
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Developed custom Bash, Python, and Groovy scripts to automate various operational tasks;
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Integrated test automation tools like SonarQube and Selenium as part of the CI pipeline to ensure code quality and functionality;
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Detected and resolved root causes of failures and errors, providing technical support and solutions to maintain system stability;
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Managed Bitbucket repositories, including setting up and controlling permissions for teams and projects;
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Automated database operations such as daily backups and migrations for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB by creating cron jobs, and handled restore operations upon request;
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Wrote Ansible playbooks to automate and version control environment configurations across development, test, pre-production, production, and migration stages;
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Conducted research on DevOps best practices and applied them to optimize the project's processes and toolsets.
Technologies:
- Technologies:
- SonarQube
- Microservices
- Jenkins
- Bash
- Google Cloud
- Docker
- Python
- Kubernetes
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Education
BSc.Computer Science
Istanbul Technical University · 2012 - 2016
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