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Sevket Kursad KAHYA
Senior Devops Engineer
Summary
Experienced Cloud DevOps Engineer with a proven track record of transforming cloud systems and enhancing networking architecture. With a solid background spanning 9 years, I am adept at designing and managing scalable, fault-tolerant infrastructure while also optimizing CI/CD pipelines and orchestrating Kubernetes environments. Let's connect to explore how I can contribute to advancing your organization's DevOps and networking capabilities to unprecedented levels.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
9
9
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Senior DevOps Engineer
Hunters
Tel Aviv
06.2022 - Current
- Orchestrated and enhanced the entire AWS Infrastructure using Terraform, ensuring heightened security and maintainability
- Leveraged the powerful combination of Prometheus, Thanos and Grafana for robust monitoring, providing real-time visibility into system performance and enabling proactive troubleshooting
- Acted as an on-call resource, collaborating with PagerDuty to promptly address and resolve critical incidents, ensuring seamless operations and minimal downtime
- Managed and continuously improved CI/CD pipelines, optimizing software delivery processes and reducing time- to-market for new features and enhancements
- Provided guidance and best practices to developers, fostering a culture of DevOps and promoting collaboration between development and operations teams
- Strengthened the overall infrastructure by implementing security hardening measures, ensuring robust protection against potential vulnerabilities and threats
- Successfully established a non-production environment, enabling efficient testing and development activities while ensuring the stability of the production system.
Senior DevOps Engineer
Nexstar Media Group, Inc
10.2021 - 06.2022
- Orchestrated the seamless provisioning, modification, and scaling of microservices-based architectures by leveraging Terraform with Kubernetes.
- Realized substantial cost savings in AWS by optimizing S3 storage costs while improving website performance and cost efficiency through strategic utilization of Fastly and CloudFront for CDN
Senior DevOps Engineer
Afiniti
Istanbul
08.2020 - 11.2021
- Played a vital role in facilitating the seamless integration of development and operations activities, resulting in enhanced software delivery and operational efficiency for the complex product known as Airo
- Pioneered the development of streamlined installation solutions, enabling one-click deployment of the product, reducing setup complexity and minimizing time-to-value for customers
- Demonstrated expertise in troubleshooting complex environments, promptly addressing any issues encountered and delivering rapid, effective responses to stakeholders, fostering high levels of satisfaction and minimizing downtime
- Collaborated closely with the production services team to optimize the management of our solutions at the customer end, providing valuable assistance and guidance to enhance operational processes, ensuring smooth delivery and implementation of our product for clients.
Senior DevOps Engineer
Turkcell Technology
Istanbul
09.2019 - 08.2020
- Played an active role as a member of a central DevOps team being responsible for company-wide DevOps transition, ensuring the seamless adoption of DevOps principles and practices across all departments
- Successfully orchestrated the migration from outdated project management tools to Atlassian products, with a primary focus on JIRA
- Effectively managed and integrated instances of JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket, Crowd, and Jenkins, harmonizing these tools to streamline project management and collaboration processes
- Re-architected Jenkins instances and associated pipelines, implementing enhancements to optimize speed and maintainability
- Through strategic modifications and improvements, increased efficiency and reliability of the CI/CD pipelines, facilitating faster and more manageable software delivery
- Build lots of CI/CD pipelines and empowered DevOps leads within each squad to take charge of DevOps activities, aligning with DevOps principles across the organization's diverse range of projects.
DevOps Engineer
TÜBİTAK BİLGEM Cyber Security Institute
05.2015 - 08.2019
- Administrated the whole Atlassian products, JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket, Crowd, including their integration between CI/CD Tools
- Installed and maintained CI/CD pipelines as well as its entire infrastructure consisting of Jenkins, Sonarqube, Nexus, Atlassian products
- Deployed and managed highly distributed Openstack, private cloud, with advanced feature like OVS/SR-IOV
- Played active role in software development team and migrated from docker-compose to Kubernetes including extensive modification at the microservices
- Trained new employees about Cybersecurity Fundementals
Electronic Engineer
Metro Istanbul
01.2014 - 04.2015
- Designed IP Based Embedded Communication Unit to be used in trams
- Developed an application on top of STM32F4 Arm based microcontroller
- Involved in Circuit and PCB Design
Education
Master of Science - MS (Not Completed) - Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Boğaziçi University
08.2015 - 06.2019
Bachelor of Science - Electronic Engineering
Istanbul Technical University
09.2009 - 06.2014
Accomplishments
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (2021)
- Udacity Cloud Developer Nano Degree (2020)
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (2020)
Interests
Timeline
Senior DevOps Engineer
Hunters
06.2022 - Current
Senior DevOps Engineer
Nexstar Media Group, Inc
10.2021 - 06.2022
Senior DevOps Engineer
Afiniti
08.2020 - 11.2021
Senior DevOps Engineer
Turkcell Technology
09.2019 - 08.2020
Master of Science - MS (Not Completed) - Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Boğaziçi University
08.2015 - 06.2019
DevOps Engineer
TÜBİTAK BİLGEM Cyber Security Institute
05.2015 - 08.2019
Electronic Engineer
Metro Istanbul
01.2014 - 04.2015
Bachelor of Science - Electronic Engineering
Istanbul Technical University
09.2009 - 06.2014