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Nazerke Tursunkul

Chicago,IL

Summary

Results-driven DevOps specialist with over 5 years of proven expertise in orchestrating seamless software development lifecycles. Passionate about operational excellence, continuously documenting processes, and working collaboratively to boost application performance. Committed to lifelong learning and advancing technological frontiers.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

DevOps Engineer

Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
New York, NY
04.2022 - Current
  • Managed the AWS Organization, orchestrating multiple AWS accounts segmented by production, backup, networking, and application-based classifications, with a focus on automation, streamlined integration, and fiscal prudence.
  • Administered Jenkins CI/CD processes, ensuring seamless software deployments and infrastructure adjustments. Developed proficiency with declarative Jenkins pipelines, global shared libraries, and Jenkinsfile syntax nuances.
  • Provisioned AWS assets, including EC2, ECS, S3, RDS, and VPC, while configuring Data Dog logging and monitoring and establishing Sentry projects. Utilized Terraform modules as the primary Infrastructure as Code (IaaC) instrument.
  • Transformed legacy applications by containerizing them with Docker and deploying them to be compatible with AWS Lambda and ECS.
  • Implemented an automatic backup solution for critical GitHub repositories and Secrets Manager data, using Python to securely store them in AWS S3 buckets.
  • Designed and implemented AWS S3 bucket policies, lifecycle management strategies, and replication configurations for robust data protection.
  • Developed Debian-based Docker parent images for Python, Ruby, PHP, and Node.js. Integrated image scanning via Prisma Cloud twistcli, optimizing for ECR scanning, with the final images stored in the ECR repository.
  • Authored and documented operational runbooks for streamlined IT processes and incident management.
  • Collaborated extensively with diverse teams to enhance application performance and scalability through infrastructural enhancements.

DevOps Engineer

Pangea Money Transfer
Chicago, IL
05.2020 - 03.2022
  • Orchestrated Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) processes using Jenkins and GitHub, with GIT as the primary version control system for code management.
  • Built a resilient and scalable infrastructure on AWS, utilizing services such as EC2, VPC, Auto Scaling, ELB, RDS, Route53, and EKS.
  • Set up and maintained Jenkins pipelines to automate build processes, deployed Jenkins master and slave nodes, and ensured timely plugin management.
  • Developed and managed AWS assets like EC2, EKS, S3, RDS, VPC, and Auto Scaling using the Infrastructure as Code (IaaC) tool, Terraform.
  • Implemented monitoring solutions, leveraging Prometheus to gather crucial metrics within the Kubernetes framework. Utilized Grafana for insightful metrics visualization and analysis.
  • Managed and sustained Kubernetes clusters via EKS, orchestrating various Kubernetes components like Deployments, StatefulSets, DaemonSet, ConfigMaps, and other pivotal objects to proficiently expose applications.

Cloud Engineer

MindSight
Downers Grove, IL
02.2018 - 04.2020
  • Orchestrated the provisioning of multi-layered applications within Amazon Cloud Services.
  • Crafted specific roles and group structures for users and resources through AWS Identity Access Management (IAM) within the Security, Identity, and Compliance service category.
  • Set up a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and orchestrated networking intricacies for subnets housing servers.
  • Devised comprehensive AWS Security Groups, functioning as virtual firewalls, overseeing and regulating traffic flow.
  • Utilized both AWS Console and AWS CLI tools for efficient deployment and management of AWS services.
  • Streamlined cloud deployment processes by integrating Makefile with AWS Cloud Formation Templates.

Skills

  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Terraform
  • Docker
  • Jenkins
  • Python
  • Kubernetes
  • ECS
  • LINUX
  • Git/GitHub
  • DataDog
  • GCP
  • MySQL
  • Windows
  • Debian
  • Shell Script (Bash)
  • Chef
  • Ansible
  • Prisma Cloud
  • JIRA
  • OKTA

Certification

  • AWS Solution Architect Associate

Timeline

DevOps Engineer

Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
04.2022 - Current

DevOps Engineer

Pangea Money Transfer
05.2020 - 03.2022

Cloud Engineer

MindSight
02.2018 - 04.2020
Nazerke Tursunkul