Senior Platform Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership and manage EKS clusters for Turkish products, encompassing node lifecycle, upgrades, autoscaling, resource policies, networking, deployment, and observability.

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

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

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

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

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

• Deliver using GitOps with Argo CD, facilitating rolling, blue-green, and canary deployments as well as environment promotions.

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

• Establish Datadog observability, including setting 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 awareness.

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

⛳️ Requirements

• More than 5 years of experience in operating production infrastructure.

• Expertise in Kubernetes, including managing both stateless and stateful workloads in production environments.

• Proven experience running at least one real Kubernetes operator in a production setting.

• Extensive AWS experience, particularly with EKS, networking, storage, identity, multi-AZ design, and cost awareness, or comparable experience in other cloud environments.

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

• Experience with GitOps practices, including tools like Argo CD or Flux, as well as deployment strategies.

• Knowledge of networking concepts, including services, ingress, network policies, and cross-cluster communication.

• Experience in observability tools like Datadog, Prometheus, and Grafana, with a focus on SLOs, actionable alerts, application, and database monitoring.

• Hands-on experience with security practices, including encryption in transit and at rest, secrets management, and privileged access controls for clusters and databases.

• Proficient in managing relational databases.

• Regular use of AI coding tools such as Cursor or Claude Code, with complete ownership of all code and manifests delivered.

• Proficient in English (B2+) and a native speaker of Turkish.

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

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

• Strong plus: ability to provide infrastructure evidence for ISO 27001, SOC 2, or health-sector audits.

• Strong plus: understanding of data residency requirements and AWS Local Zones.

• Strong plus: experience with telehealth media infrastructure, including WebRTC, TURN, and SFU scaling.

• Strong plus: prior engagement 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.

• Flexibility to work remotely.

• Three days of motivation leave offered annually.