Arda Şendur
Senior Devops Engineer
Istanbul
Summary
Professional DevOps engineer prepared to bring innovative solutions to complex challenges. Extensive experience in automating workflows and maintaining high availability systems. Known for reliability and adaptability, with strong focus on team collaboration and achieving results. Possesses foundational knowledge in cloud platforms and automation tools, adept at scripting and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline management. Committed to driving operational excellence and delivering scalable solutions to enhance system reliability.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Devops Engineer
Sahibinden.com
01.2022 - Current
- Set up and maintain test environments on OpenShift and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Part of the transformation from monolithic architecture to microservices
- Manage and maintain test environments for supporting development teams
- Maintained systems that monitored applications and infrastructure.
- Enhance and integrate existing test infrastructure with Kubernetes.
- Develop and enhance Jenkins pipelines for CI/CD automation.
- Implement microservices deployment using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices.
- Containerize and deploy microservices using Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm.
- Implement GitOps workflows using ArgoCD for automated deployments.
- Contribute to the software release cycle by automating deployment, versioning, and rollback processes.
- Improve release automation and streamline CI/CD pipelines for faster and more reliable deployments.
- Ensure security, scalability, and high availability in cloud-native deployments.
- Collaborate with development teams to enhance deployment processes and application performance.
- Implement high availability (HA) and disaster recovery strategies for Kubernetes clusters.
- Increased system reliability, minimizing downtime and service disruptions through proactive troubleshooting and root cause analysis.
DevOps Engineer / SRE
Plentific
09.2021 - 01.2022
- Cloud Provider: AWS (EC2, VPC, SNS, RDS, EBS, ELB, Lambda, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, SQS, IAM, GuardDuty, EKS, ECR)
- IaC & Automation: Terraform, TerraGrunt for managing DRY Terraform configurations across multiple modules
- CI/CD & DevOps: Jenkins, ArgoCD, release cycle participation
- Containerization & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS) for production, staging, and testing environments
- Kubernetes Management: Deployed and managed workloads using HELM, ensuring smooth containerized application deployments
DevOps & Cloud Engineer
Siemens
11.2018 - 09.2021
- Cloud & Infrastructure: Expertise in AWS (EC2, Security Groups, ELB, S3, RDS, VPC, Auto-Scaling, Elastic Beanstalk, EKS, ECS, ECR, CloudWatch, IAM, SQS, SNS) and Azure for building highly available, scalable systems.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Automated infrastructure provisioning using Terraform with Terragrunt and Serverless Framework for serverless deployments.
- CI/CD & Automation: Implemented CI/CD pipelines using GitLab, Jenkins, and ArgoCD to streamline deployments.
- Containerization & Orchestration: Deployed and managed Docker containers on Kubernetes (EKS) using Helm charts for efficient application rollouts.
- Scripting & Automation: Developed Bash & Python scripts to automate operational workflows, improving efficiency and reducing manual effort.
- Version Control & Tooling: Experience with Git, Packer, Python, and build/release management to ensure seamless software delivery.
- Serverless & Cloud-Native: Designed serverless architectures leveraging AWS Lambda and related services for event-driven applications.
- Reduced server downtime by proactively monitoring cloud resources and addressing potential issues before they escalated.
Software Engineer in Test
Huawei Technologies
02.2017 - 11.2018
- Ensured high-quality user experience by validating application behavior across various platforms, devices, and browsers.
- Test Automation: Selenium WebDriver, Java, TestNG, Log4j
- Testing Frameworks & Patterns: BDD (Behavior Driven Testing), TDD (Test Driven Development), DDT (Data Driven Testing), End-to-End Testing, POM (Page Object Model), Page Factory
- Types of Testing: Regression Testing, Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, UAT (User Acceptance Testing), IAT (Internal Acceptance Testing)
- Network Analysis & Troubleshooting: Wireshark for network packet analysis
- Reduced bug rates by providing timely feedback through detailed bug reports to developers.
- Telecom Testing: Worked with STC (Saudi Telecom Company) on IPTV & Web TV projects
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Coordinated with international development & test teams
- Defect Management: Reported issues, communicated with stakeholders on defect severity & resolutions
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Bilkent Üniversitesi
Ankara, Turkey 04.2001 -
Summer Session - Business Administration And Management
The London School of Economics
London 04.2001 -
Skills
Scripting languages
Monitoring and logging
Infrastructure automation
Configuration management
Containerization technologies
Microservices architecture
System design
Linux administration
Certification
Amazon Web Services Solutions Architect Associate
Timeline
Senior Devops Engineer
Sahibinden.com
01.2022 - Current
DevOps Engineer / SRE
Plentific
09.2021 - 01.2022
DevOps & Cloud Engineer
Siemens
11.2018 - 09.2021
Software Engineer in Test
Huawei Technologies
02.2017 - 11.2018
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Bilkent Üniversitesi
04.2001 -
Summer Session - Business Administration And Management
The London School of Economics
04.2001 -