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Certification
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Ömer Faruk Çırakoğlu

Cloud And Infrastructure Manager
Kartal,Istanbul

Summary

Experienced with a demonstrated history of working in the internet, finance, e-commerce and telco industry. Strong information technology professional skilled in Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP), Cloud, Automation, Virtualization, Unix, Linux, Storage and Backup. Currently IT Manager that instructs and leads network, monitoring, cloud and support teams. Actively works with executives to determine and implement tech needs and manages technology strategy.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications

Work History

Infrastructure Manager

Ciceksepeti
02.2022 - Current
  • Managed network security, information security, cloud, it support and monitoring teams
  • Delivered project oversight and provide architectural plan
  • Developing strategies and pipelines to automate infrastructure operations and cloud native applications
  • Achieved high level ROI by migrating whole infrastructure from AWS to GCP and optimizing resources
  • Collaborated with other heads to identify and resolve problems
  • Tested network performance and created strategies to maintain integrity of overall infrastructure
  • Provided onboarding and mentoring of newly hired employees, offering positive reinforcement

Cloud and Infrastructure Manager

N11
09.2017 - 01.2022
  • Management of Cloud and system operations team which is responsible for storage, backup, virtualization, operating systems, automation, Openshift/Kubernetes microservice layer and monitoring platforms
  • Disaster Recovery Center and Business Continuity management on Cloud
  • Annual capital budget management
  • Testing infrastructure performance and creating strategies to maintain integrity of overall infrastructure
  • Coordinating Cloud projects, defined scope, and managed milestones

Cloud and Infrastructure Team Lead - 2020 - 2021

  • Leading Cloud and System Administration team
  • Replicating VMware virtual machines to GCP cloud with Actifio
  • Booting up hundreds of vms and other resources with low RPO in case of disaster with automation
  • Creating microservices on GCP with GKE Kubernetes engine
  • Creating Ansible automation pipelines to manage both onpreme and cloud resources
  • Installed system-wide hardware components, confirming interoperation and compatibility with Linux-based software distros
  • Maintained servers and systems to keep functions fully operational during peak periods

Senior System Administrator - 2017 - 2020

  • RHV / VMware / Kvm virtualization platform management
  • Storage platform management, Dell EMC Vplex, XtremIO, PureStorage Flash Array, Brocade san switch
  • NAS environment management Dell EMC Isilon and Pure FlashBlade
  • Datacenter Hardware Infrastructure management, DellEMC M1000e Blade chassis, Cisco UCS B200 chassis, Dell HP rackmount servers
  • Operating System management, RedHat Linux, Suse
  • Backup Management, DellEMC Networker, Datadomain and HP Tape Library
  • Orchestration and Automation management, RedHat Satellite, Puppet, Ansible, Cloudforms
  • Container platform management, RedHat Openshift
  • Monitoring management, Zabbix, Grafana, Lpar2rrd, Stor2rrd, Prometheus

System Support Engineer

ISTANBUL PAZARLAMA A.S.
02.2017 - 09.2017
  • Presales and post-sales support for IBM POWER servers
  • Presales and post-sales support for IBM AIX
  • Support for IBM HACMP (PowerHA)
  • Support for RedHat, Oracle Linux, Suse Linux
  • Creating automation pipelines with Saltstack

Senior Unix System Administrator

Turkcell
02.2014 - 12.2016
  • Server setup, performance monitoring, disk operations and security issues of Unix/Linux Systems (RedHat, Suse systems on x86 platform, Solaris systems on Sparc platform, AIX systems on IBM power platform)
  • Management of Oracle VM (LDOM) virtualization platform which includes 6 T5-4 SPARC servers and 100+ guests
  • Management of RedHat OpenStack Object Storage platform which includes Swift and Keystone OpenStack modules
  • Orchestration and automation of OpenStack platform with Ansible
  • ISO 27001 security standards and audit issues

Unix System Administrator

YapıKredi Bank
07.2012 - 01.2014
  • Administration of Unix/Linux Systems at YapıKredi (RedHat, Suse systems on x86 platform, Solaris systems on Sparc platform, AIX systems on IBM power platform), including core banking system on M-SPARC system
  • Administration of Oracle VM (LDOM) virtualization platform which includes 13 T5-4 SPARC servers and 100+ guests
  • Administration of IBM LPAR platform and VIOS servers

Unix System Administrator

KoçSistem
07.2010 - 11.2012
  • Providing support for setup, disk management, application management and performance monitoring of Unix/Linux systems (RedHat, AIX, Solaris, Suse)
  • Performed hardware and software installations and configurations for Oracle Sun Servers, IBM Power Systems and HP,Dell Intel servers

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Engineering

Istanbul Technical University
09.2006 - 06.2010

Skills

Gcp Cloud and Oracle Cloud services

Certification

Red Hat Certified Engineer Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Personal

Fluent in English, No Smoking

B type driving license, Military services completed in 2012

Timeline

Infrastructure Manager

Ciceksepeti
02.2022 - Current

Cloud and Infrastructure Manager

N11
09.2017 - 01.2022

System Support Engineer

ISTANBUL PAZARLAMA A.S.
02.2017 - 09.2017

Red Hat Certified Engineer Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

12-2015

Senior Unix System Administrator

Turkcell
02.2014 - 12.2016

Unix System Administrator

YapıKredi Bank
07.2012 - 01.2014

Unix System Administrator

KoçSistem
07.2010 - 11.2012

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Engineering

Istanbul Technical University
09.2006 - 06.2010
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