Istanbul, Türkiye
IT Infrastructure Engineering Manager with a focus on Cloud and automation technologies. Currently leading the platform teams responsible for Türkiye’s largest cloud infrastructure. Serves as the technical coordinator for major hyperscale cloud initiatives within Turkcell. Previously: Senior Systems Administrator with experience in Linux / UNIX Systems to support large enterprise, highly available systems. Red Hat Certified Professional of the Year 2017
Leading the engineering and operations of platform teams responsible for Türkiye’s largest cloud infrastructure. I oversee a diverse, complex ecosystem, ensuring high availability and scalability across a multi-vendor stack including VMware, OpenStack, OpenShift, RHV, Hyper-V, Citrix, and oVirt. I direct the management and optimization of mission-critical container and virtualization platforms, with a focus on modernization and operational excellence. Served as the technical coordinator for major hyperscale cloud initiatives and led Google Cloud partnership discussions that secured the decision to launch a Türkiye region — bringing hyperscale cloud technologies into Türkiye.
Team lead for the Turkcell Cloud Engineering team. Building and leading a team of engineers to create and manage a broad portfolio of cloud services. Oversee the implementation and roll out of cloud services and offerings based on architectural designs. Manage and communicate the execution of cloud technology strategy for suitable cloud product development. Creating the cloud enterprise standards and implementation best practices.
• Acting as the technical lead to the Linux/UNIX administration team • L3 support and troubleshooting of infrastructure related problems • Testing and evaluating new technologies • Implementation and support of cloud technologies like OpenStack and Docker • Responsible for providing 24x7 administration and support for enterprise class UNIX servers • Administering Linux, AIX, HP-UX, Solaris and Linux servers. • Maintaining the high availability and high performance of the systems. • Implementation and management of virtualization environments
•Responsible for providing 24x7 support for UNIX servers and SAN devices including Storage & Backup systems •Installing upgrading and patching UNIX servers. •Responsible for planning and performing backup and recovery. •Planning and Implementing High Availability Solutions with HP ServiceGuard clusters and HP Continues Access data replication solutions. •Provide technical resolution to problems related with datacenter assets. •Assisting the Information Security Group in daily security management tasks (i.e. managing firewalls, IPSs and other security related tools)
• Research on Computer and Information Systems security. • Assisting graduate and post graduate courses of the faculty. • Management of department network and computer laboratories.
Planning, preparing and teaching of Linux Systems Administration Courses.
Planning, preparing and teaching of Linux Systems Administration Courses.