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Velat Turk

Rolling Meadows

Summary

Detail-oriented and results-driven Senior DevOps Engineer with 5+ years of experience and proven expertise in Kubernetes platform engineering, CI/CD automation, and Infrastructure as Code across AWS and GCP. Experienced in leading technical initiatives that improve deployment efficiency and system reliability, while mentoring engineering teams to adopt DevOps best practices. Strong problem solver with excellent analytical and communication skills, effective at bridging development and operations teams to deliver business value. Thrives in both independent and collaborative team environments.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Sr DevOps Engineer

Options Clearing Corporation (OCC)
Chicago, IL
08.2022 - Current
  • Led Terraform Enterprise modernization by creating reusable infrastructure modules from scratch that standardized IaC patterns across teams, reduced provisioning time, and eliminated configuration drift
  • Managed container orchestration and application lifecycles using Rancher for enterprise Kubernetes platforms, enabling scalable and efficient delivery for 1,000+ microservices across multi-zone environments.
  • Spearheaded end-to-end application deployment automation using Harness and Jenkins, significantly reducing deployment time and human error while enabling reliable, low-risk releases across multiple environments
  • Designed and maintained shared Helm chart library with reusable templates, streamlining deployment configuration and management for microservices while ensuring consistency and reducing complexity
  • Implemented enterprise-grade secrets management using HashiCorp Vault Injector integrated with Terraform and Helm, enabling centralized credential management, dynamic secrets injection at runtime, and automated certificate rotation
  • Led and mentored support teams on advanced troubleshooting methodologies as part of an on-call rotation, training them to efficiently isolate complex issues and perform root-cause analysis.
  • Designed and governed DevOps standards as a SME, mentoring teams on automation, observability, and environment consistency while streamlining cross-functional release cycles
  • Managed and supported complex, business-critical clearing applications by developing custom automation scripts to support build, deployment, and environment consistency, reducing manual effort and improving operational reliability

DevOps Engineer

AbbVie
Chicago, IL
01.2021 - 08.2022
  • Automated infrastructure and deployments with Terraform and Jenkins on Google Cloud Platform, eliminating 80% of manual work across Dev, QA, and production environments.
  • Created and maintained fully automated CI/CD pipelines for code deployment using Jenkins, integrated with Git for version control and code quality tracking.
  • Deployed and maintained Jenkins, Grafana, Prometheus, Nexus, SonarQube, Ingress Controller, and Vault on GKE using Terraform and Helm Charts.
  • Created Dockerfiles and built Docker images for microservices, maintaining multiple Kubernetes clusters with Terraform across environments.
  • Collected metrics using Prometheus and built monitoring dashboards with Grafana for Kubernetes cluster visibility and performance tracking.
  • Built and managed AWS infrastructure using Terraform, including VPC, Subnets, NAT Gateway, Route Tables, Auto Scaling Groups, Load Balancers, EC2, Fargate, ECS, RDS, and S3.
  • Managed and installed patches and software packages using YUM and RPM, and maintained YUM repository files for Linux servers.

Cloud Engineer

Expedia Group
Chicago, IL
09.2019 - 12.2020
  • Automated AWS infrastructure and deployments with Terraform, defining VPCs, Security Groups, Load Balancers, Auto-Scaling, S3, DynamoDB, EC2, RDS, ECS, IAM Policies and Route53.
  • Implemented production-ready, load-balanced, highly available, and fault-tolerant three-tier web application with Terraform across multiple environments.
  • Developed and maintained automated CI/CD pipelines for code deployment using Jenkins and Git.
  • Built custom reusable Terraform modules to standardize infrastructure and manage code as DRY across deployments.
  • Built and updated AWS AMI images using Packer to ensure consistent and repeatable infrastructure builds.
  • Leveraged VPC to build secure, highly scalable, and flexible environments capable of handling expected and unexpected load bursts.
  • Actively managed, improved, and monitored cloud infrastructure on AWS using a wide variety of technologies including Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, and GCP.

Education

Bachelor of Arts - Architectural Technology

Beykent University
Istanbul, Turkey
05-2019

Skills

  • Cloud Platforms: AWS (EC2, EKS, S3, IAM, Lambda, RDS, VPC), GCP (GKE, Compute Engine, Cloud Build)
  • Container Orchestration: Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, Rancher), Docker, Helm Charts
  • Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansible, Packer
  • CI/CD & Automation: Jenkins, Harness, GitHub Actions, Git
  • Monitoring & Logging: Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry
  • Security & Secrets: HashiCorp Vault, AWS IAM
  • Networking: VPC, Load Balancers, Route53, Security Groups, VPN
  • Scripting & Programming: Bash, YAML, Groovy, Linux

Certification

  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator(CKA)
  • HashiCorp Cloud Engineer Certification (Terraform Associate)
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate Certification)
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Timeline

Sr DevOps Engineer

Options Clearing Corporation (OCC)
08.2022 - Current

DevOps Engineer

AbbVie
01.2021 - 08.2022

Cloud Engineer

Expedia Group
09.2019 - 12.2020

Bachelor of Arts - Architectural Technology

Beykent University
Velat Turk