Building Scalable, Reliable, and Fault-Tolerant Infrastructures.
I'm Mehmet Enver Akkoç, a Tech Lead SRE & DevOps Engineer with 8 years of experience. I specialize in architecting high-availability on-premises and private cloud infrastructures based on VMware, designing automated GitOps pipelines, and implementing advanced SRE observability to ensure a 99.99% uptime SLA.
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Technology Matrix
The technology stack and tools I have mastered over the past 8 years to automate and scale infrastructures.
IaC, Coding & Scripting
Automating infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and custom tooling.
Terraform
Ansible
Go
Python
Bash
YAML
Containerization & Orchestration
Orchestrating containerized microservices at scale with Kubernetes.
Docker
Containerd
RKE2
Kubernetes
Helm
Virtualization & Cloud
Managing virtualized on-premise platforms & public cloud infrastructure.
vCenter VMware
AWS
GCP
CI/CD & GitOps
Building automated pipelines for fast & secure deployments.
GitLab CI
ArgoCD
Jenkins
Harbor
Nexus
Bitbucket
SonarQube
Jira
Confluence
Observability & SRE
Ensuring platform health with metrics, logs, and real-time alerts.
Prometheus
Grafana
Thanos
Dynatrace
ELK Stack
Opsgenie
Zabbix
Databases & Middleware
Managing reverse proxies, caching layers, and message brokers.
Redis
Kafka
HAProxy
Nginx
Security, Identity & Storage
Securing secrets, access control, and block storage systems.
Vault
Keycloak
Longhorn
GlusterFS
MinIO
Certifications & Licenses
Industry-standard cloud and infrastructure certifications validating my technical expertise.
Case Studies & Projects
Real-world engineering problems solved through automation, reliability practices, and cost optimization.
Active-Active K8s Migration
Zero-downtime migration of a monolithic fintech platform into an active-active two datacenter on-premise Kubernetes environment based on VMware.
Automated GitOps Pipelines
End-to-end GitOps workflow designed using Jenkins, Bitbucket, and ArgoCD to increase developer velocity. Integrates SonarQube code quality gates and Nexus artifact repository deployment.
Observability & Alerting Refactoring
Designed a centralized observability dashboard using Prometheus, Grafana, and Thanos to detect anomalies across 100+ microservices in a high-traffic e-commerce hub. Consolidated log pipelines via ELK and integrated Opsgenie alerting.
Medium Articles
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Career Journey
From network security to DevOps engineering, site reliability practices, and technical leadership at scale.
Tech Lead SRE / DevOps
T.O.M. Bank
Leading a team of SREs and DevOps engineers to ensure the availability, latency, performance, efficiency, and capacity management of financial products. Evangelized GitOps practices and automated environment provisioning using Terraform. Formulated disaster recovery (DR) strategies.
Senior SRE & DevOps Engineer
T.O.M. Bank
Managed the end-to-end installation, provisioning, maintenance, and seamless integration of the bank's entire core DevOps and SRE technology matrix. Led the migration of legacy monolithic systems to Kubernetes and automated continuous delivery pipelines.
Site Reliability Engineer
LC Waikiki
Managed enterprise Linux and Windows servers across virtualization platforms (VMware) and cloud environments (Azure, GCP). Led a GitOps transformation integrating ArgoCD with Azure DevOps pipelines, spearheaded a Rancher Kubernetes cluster migration, managed hybrid middleware systems, and established proactive monitoring architectures using Prometheus, Grafana, and Zabbix.
DevOps Engineer
Softtech Bilgi Teknolojileri A.Ş.
Administered and optimized enterprise Elastic Stack clusters and EVAM real-time campaign management environments. Integrated Grafana metrics dashboards and designed custom internal monitoring solutions to improve operational observability.
NOC Engineer
Ebay & Gittigidiyor
Supervised 24/7 high-traffic e-commerce platform operations, managed real-time system alerting metrics, and orchestrated cross-functional incident response workflows to maintain service level objectives (SLOs).
DevOps Engineer
Vakıfbank
Engineered internal monitoring automation tools and developed robust management frameworks for distributed batch processing and cron job execution.
Network Security Engineer
Intertech
Maintained network security zoning architectures, managed enterprise firewalls and secure site-to-site VPN tunnels, and implemented traffic log analysis systems for compliance auditing.
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