Mustafa Baydar

• Managing and maintaining cloud infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and Alibaba Cloud.
• Overseeing a wide range of services across AWS and GCP, including EC2, ECS, EKS, Route 53, CloudWatch, SNS, SQS, EventBridge, Lambda, VPC, IAM, and Certificate Manager in AWS, as well as similar services in GCP, to ensure seamless operation.
• Driving cost optimizations across AWS and GCP, achieving notable savings.
• Implementing GitOps with Flux/ArgoCD in all EKS clusters to streamline deployments and management.
• Implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform for scalable and maintainable resource management.
• Applying cloud security best practices to ensure a robust and compliant infrastructure.
• Participating in the regular on-call rotation to ensure system reliability and availability.

- Provisioned and managed the capacity and performance of resources such as Kubernetes, ElasticSearch, Prometheus, Grafana, Redis, and more
- Implemented Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and Ansible to automate infrastructure provisioning
- Automated system configurations and state management using SaltStack to enhance consistency and reduce manual intervention
- Troubleshot and resolved performance and availability issues for Kubernetes, ElasticSearch
- Managed incident response processes, analyzed postmortems, and applied improvements to strengthen system reliability and resilience.
- Migrated the legacy push-based deployment process to a GitOps workflow using Argo CD
- Handled patch management to ensure systems remained up-to-date and secure
- Optimized services and infrastructure for better cost-efficiency, scalability, and resilience
- Provisioned and managed cloud-based services on AWS

- Administrating the Core Banking system applications , Mobile BFF applications which has 20k concurrent users on Bank Mobile application.
- Managing the lifecycle of the servers which runs the core banking applications
- Provisioned and managed capacity of Applications server resources
- Automating the toils of new applications by using Python, Ansible and Powershell
- Manage incident response processes and handle service disruptions effectively
- Develop and test Disaster Recovery (DR) scenarios