Senior Platform Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Turkey.

📋 Description

• Take charge of and manage EKS clusters for Turkish products, overseeing node lifecycle, upgrades, autoscaling, resource policy, networking, deployment, and observability.

• Strategize and implement the migration of relational databases from RDS to EKS databases utilizing a Kubernetes operator.

• Handle replication, cutover with verified rollback, backups, point-in-time recovery to S3, and monitoring.

• Transition applications, data plane, and associated services to the Turkish platform.

• Operate the platform in support of Ministry of Health certification and provide evidence of compliance.

• Ensure high availability and autoscaling for PHP, .NET, and Node.js workloads.

• Execute delivery through GitOps with Argo CD, incorporating rolling, blue-green, canary deployments, and environment promotion.

• Design and troubleshoot ingress, cross-cluster, and cross-VPC networking, as well as controlled egress to Ministry systems.

• Develop Datadog observability, including SLOs, actionable alerts, APM, database monitoring, and audit-grade logging.

• Manage migrated databases, focusing on failover, upgrades, storage performance, capacity, and incident response.

• Automate processes using infrastructure as code while maintaining cost consciousness.

• Collaborate with Practice Adoption engineers, the local compliance team, and the global Core Platform team.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in operating production infrastructure.

• Proficiency in Kubernetes, including the management of both stateless and stateful workloads in production environments.

• Experience with at least one real Kubernetes operator deployed in a production setting.

• Extensive AWS experience, covering EKS, networking, storage, identity management, multi-AZ design, cost awareness, or equivalent cloud experience.

• Familiarity with workload and cluster autoscaling tools, such as KEDA or Karpenter.

• Knowledge of GitOps practices, including tools like Argo CD or Flux, and various deployment strategies.

• Understanding of networking principles, including services, ingress, network policies, and cross-cluster communication.

• Experience with observability tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, and Grafana, including SLOs, actionable alerts, application, and database monitoring.

• Practical experience in security measures involving encryption in transit and at rest, secrets management, and privileged access controls for clusters and databases.

• Comfortable in managing relational databases.

• Daily engagement with AI coding tools like Cursor or Claude Code, ensuring ownership of every line and manifest delivered.

• Proficient in English (B2+) and fluent in Turkish.

• Strong advantage: experience with relational databases on Kubernetes via an operator and database migration processes.

• Strong advantage: expertise in disaster recovery design, including RPO, RTO, backup verification, and restore drills.

• Strong advantage: infrastructure documentation suitable for ISO 27001, SOC 2, or health-sector audits.

• Strong advantage: familiarity with data residency regulations and AWS Local Zones.

• Strong advantage: experience in telehealth media infrastructure, including WebRTC, TURN, and SFU scaling.

• Strong advantage: prior interactions with Turkish regulators or Ministry systems.

🏝️ Benefits

• Private health insurance.

• Access to the ifeel emotional well-being tool.

• Complimentary birthday leave to spend a day with your loved ones.

• Remote work opportunities.

• Three days of motivation leave each year.