Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer - AWS, CI/CD, SRE

Gizli; Turkey; On-site; TRY 250,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Gizli is seeking a talented DevOps Engineer to join our technology team. You will design, build, and optimize scalable AWS infrastructure, automate deployments, and manage containerized applications across ECS/Kubernetes.

The role emphasizes reliability, cost control, and collaboration with cross-functional teams. You will work on production-grade SaaS platforms, implement IaC with Terraform, and contribute to incident response and disaster recovery planning.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional experience as a DevOps Engineer or similar role.
• Strong hands-on experience with Amazon Web Services.
• Experience operating production-grade SaaS platforms, APIs, or distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD principles and modern deployment workflows.
• Experience with Docker and container orchestration on ECS, Kubernetes, or EKS.
• Linux system administration and shell scripting.
• Proficiency with Bash, Python, or similar scripting language.
• Solid knowledge of AWS networking (VPCs, subnets, security groups, load balancers, DNS, CDN).
• Experience with monitoring/observability tools (CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog).
• Experience managing source control and CI/CD workflows (GitHub/GitLab).
• Understanding of IAM, secrets management, security, and least privilege.
• Knowledge of HA, backup/DR, and zero-downtime deployment strategies.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical thinking, and ownership mindset.
• Excellent written and verbal communication in English.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, operate, and continuously improve secure, scalable infrastructure on AWS.
• Manage production and non-production environments for SaaS products, APIs, microservices, and integrations.
• Build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines for fast, reliable deployments.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using IaC tools, preferably Terraform.
• Manage containerized apps using Docker and platforms like ECS, Kubernetes, or EKS.
• Operate and optimize AWS services (EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, S3, Lambda, API Gateway).
• Implement monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting to maintain availability.
• Define operational metrics and system reliability standards.
• Improve resilience with autoscaling, health checks, retries, and rollback strategies.
• Establish backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity processes.
• Manage IAM policies, secrets, network security, and environment isolation.
• Monitor usage and implement cost optimization without compromising security.
• Identify bottlenecks and proactively improve performance and scalability.
• Collaborate with backend/frontend/mobile/QA/product teams to improve delivery and ops.
• Support incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement preventive actions.
• Maintain documentation and infrastructure standards.

Skills

AWS

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Linux scripting

Python

Networking

Monitoring

Git

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Job description

Gizli is seeking a talented DevOps Engineer to join our technology team. You will design, build, and optimize scalable AWS infrastructure, automate deployments, and manage containerized applications across ECS/Kubernetes.

The role emphasizes reliability, cost control, and collaboration with cross-functional teams. You will work on production-grade SaaS platforms, implement IaC with Terraform, and contribute to incident response and disaster recovery planning.