DevOps Engineer: Cloud, Kubernetes & CI/CD Expert

Koç University; Fatih; On-site; TRY 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Koç University is seeking a DevOps Engineer to automate infrastructure and software delivery across cloud and on‑prem environments. You will build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, manage AWS, EKS and hybrid Kubernetes platforms, and operate Linux systems and Docker-based microservices across Production, UAT and Test environments.

Responsibilities include IAM and API gateway security, centralized secrets, monitoring, logging, high-availability middleware, backups and data-continuity, and self-hosted

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field.
• At least two years of relevant experience.
• Excellent written and spoken English.
• Strong teamwork and communication skills.
• Advanced Linux administration and shell/bash scripting skills for system maintenance, upgrades and routine operational automation.
• Experience designing, operating and troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins or GoCD.
• Strong AWS operations experience across EC2, EKS, ECR, Aurora PostgreSQL, S3, CloudFront, WAF, CloudWatch, ElastiCache, EFS and Auto Scaling.
• Experience managing multiple EKS clusters across Production, UAT and Test environments, together with hybrid on-premises Kubernetes platforms.
• Hands-on knowledge of Kubernetes node groups, RBAC, storage, networking and application deployments.
• Experience managing Docker-based microservice lifecycles and automating infrastructure configuration with Ansible.
• Experience operating Vault, Nexus, MinIO and Git, including centralized secrets management through HashiCorp Vault and OIDC authentication integrated with Azure AD.
• Experience managing Kong API Gateway and LiteLLM-based AI Gateway, including JWT/OAuth 2.0, rate limiting, IP restrictions and CORS policies.
• Experience configuring Keycloak realms and clients, Authorization Code Flow and SSO integrations for applications.
• Experience integrating SonarQube and Trivy into CI/CD pipelines for code-quality checks and security scanning.
• Experience implementing centralized logging and monitoring with ELK, Grafana and CloudWatch, including dashboards, alarms and Aurora DDL/DML audit logs.
• Experience deploying, optimizing and operating Redis Cluster, RabbitMQ and Nginx in high-availability architectures.
• Experience managing web traffic, content automation and security layers using Nginx reverse proxy, CloudFront, AWS WAF and Kong.
• Knowledge of backup and data-continuity solutions using EBS snapshots, S3 and EFS, as well as Aurora read replicas and Multi-AZ architectures.
• Ability to develop and operate self-hosted DevOps tools and on-premises alternatives to reduce cloud dependency.
• Database experience with Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL or MongoDB.
• Experience managing Drupal and WordPress platforms is a plus.
• No military obligation for male candidates

Skills

English proficiency

Teamwork

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

GoCD

Kubernetes

Docker

Ansible

Vault

Nexus

MinIO

Keycloak

ELK stack

Grafana

Redis

RabbitMQ

Job description

Koç University is seeking a DevOps Engineer to automate infrastructure and software delivery across cloud and on‑prem environments. You will build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, manage AWS, EKS and hybrid Kubernetes platforms, and operate Linux systems and Docker-based microservices across Production, UAT and Test environments.

Responsibilities include IAM and API gateway security, centralized secrets, monitoring, logging, high-availability middleware, backups and data-continuity, and self-hosted