OZAN CAN KIRKYILDIZ

Associate DevOps Manager | Cloud Infrastructure & Automation at European Merchant Bank UAB

Türkiye

About

Experience

  • European Merchant Bank | EMBank (Remote)
    • Associate DevOps Manager | Cloud Infrastructure & Automation
      Jun 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 1 mo

      Experienced DevOps engineer with strong focus on cloud-native architectures and automation. Built scalable CI/CD pipelines using GitLab, Helm, and Terraform for GKE deployments. Proficient in managing Kubernetes clusters and Istio-based service meshes with high availability and observability in mind. Implemented full monitoring stacks using Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki to improve alerting and troubleshooting efficiency. Administered a wide range of GCP services (GKE, IAM, VPC, Cloud Functions, Compute Engine) with secure, auditable configurations and automated infrastructure via Terraform and Ansible. Designed and operated secure network architectures with Cloudflare, implementing WAF, CDN, and DDoS protection. Worked as a technical consultant to design and implement cloud infrastructure tailored to project needs. Coordinated with cross-functional teams and integrated third-party vendors during delivery. Successfully managed international collaboration with companies in 3 different countries, covering data center ops, software development, and infrastructure projects.

    • Senior Devops Engineer & Technical Project Consultant
      May 2023 - May 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo

      Experienced DevOps engineer with strong focus on cloud-native architectures and automation. Built scalable CI/CD pipelines using GitLab, Helm, and Terraform for GKE deployments. Proficient in managing Kubernetes clusters and Istio-based service meshes with high availability and observability in mind. Implemented full monitoring stacks using Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki to improve alerting and troubleshooting efficiency. Administered a wide range of GCP services (GKE, IAM, VPC, Cloud Functions, Compute Engine) with secure, auditable configurations and automated infrastructure via Terraform and Ansible. Designed and operated secure network architectures with Cloudflare, implementing WAF, CDN, and DDoS protection. Worked as a technical consultant to design and implement cloud infrastructure tailored to project needs. Coordinated with cross-functional teams and integrated third-party vendors during delivery. Successfully managed international collaboration with companies in 3 different countries, covering data center ops, software development, and infrastructure projects.

  • Site Reliability Engineer & Dev Ops Engineer at Arf
    Sep 2021 - Apr 2023 · 1 yr 8 mos

    Create their AWS infra from scratch Analyze and design whole Cloud process Creating CI/CD (terraform, jenkins, EKS)

  • DevOps Engineer at Diversis.ai
    Nov 2019 - Aug 2021 · 1 yr 10 mos

    Diversis is an AI company located in Ankara. I created their AWS infrastructure and managed it. I have created AI train server with OpenCV, and Tensorflow with CUDA on UBUNTU. I have created automation processes with S3 and python.

  • Dell EMC Technical Consultant at Tech Data
    Mar 2018 - Oct 2018 · 8 mos

    Designing infrastructures with DellEMC portfolio Meeting customers with salespeople as a technical consultant. Giving lectures to the partners and end-users about new Dell EMC products. Preparing technical requirement documents and analysis the technical requirement documents. Compare and analyze competitor's products.

  • Enterprise Technical Support Analyst at Dell
    Nov 2016 - Mar 2018 · 1 yr 5 mos

    Product Range: Servers, MD storages, Any kind of Dell Network switches and Tape Libraries Demonstrate case management skills for each customer case by resolving various issues quickly and proactively involving resources as needed to the customer’s satisfaction. Respond to customer technical problems/issues related to hardware, software and networking via e-mail/chat and phone. Handle and take ownership of customer issues from beginning to resolution. Assist customers by diagnosing problems and providing resolutions for technical and service issues. Use troubleshooting techniques and tools to identify products that are defective and follow guidelines in issuing service calls/contacts. Advise/educate customers within procedural guidelines to ensure a complete solution to their technical or service questions. Identify and provide input on unique or recurring customer problems. Remain knowledgeable of Dell’s product line, processes, policies, current industry products and technologies. Focus on delivering a positive customer experience according to Dell standards. Monitor and track issues to ensure accurate resolution. Involved in revenue generation activities with current Dell customers. Review and distribute pertinent cross-functional information