Murat Yılmaz

About

Senior Technology & Operations Leader with 20+ years of experience delivering large-scale, mission-critical programs across financial services and telecommunications. Proven track record of leading cross-functional teams, owning complex cloud migrations, automation programs, and regulatory delivery under PCI-DSS, ISO27001, and COBIT. Expert in stakeholder management, production risk governance, and 24/7 service delivery. Known for executing high-impact programs from strategy through production with measurable business outcomes.

Experience

• IT Resilience Engineer at Garanti BBVA International
  Jun 2026 - Present · 1 mo

• Engineering Operations Lead at Visa
  Apr 2022 - May 2026 · 4 yrs 2 mos

  Token ID - Visa Payments Product Group

• BKM Bankalararası Kart Merkezi (Interbank Card Center of Turkey) (7 yrs 7 mos)
  • IT Infrastructure and Operations Director
    Feb 2017 - Mar 2022 · 5 yrs 2 mos

  • System & Network Manager
    Sep 2014 - Jan 2017 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• Turkcell (10 yrs 1 mo)
  • Service Monitoring & Infrastructure Management Manager
    Jul 2011 - Aug 2014 · 3 yrs 2 mos

    Service, Mobile & Fixed Network Services Monitoring and IT Process Automation Operations Management - HP OM & BSM Services, MS SCOM, Application Performance Monitoring Services - HP TeMIP, CA Spectrum, Solarwinds NCM/NMP, etc. - IT Process Automation Services (UC4, HP OO, HP SA) Serving to Turkcell and Group Companies (Superonline, GlobalBilgi, Astelit, Best, KKTCELL)

  • Database Team Manager
    Feb 2008 - Jul 2011 · 3 yrs 6 mos

  • Oracle Database Administrator
    Aug 2004 - Feb 2008 · 3 yrs 7 mos