ISMAIL FIRAT ARAS

Senior DevOps Contractor at Aer Lingus

Managed multiple AWS accounts and designed scalable infrastructure using Terraform, Terragrunt, and Atlantis across production and non-production environments, leveraging AWS services (VPC, EC2, IAM, EKS, Lambda, S3). Developed and maintained end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Atlantis, and Jenkins with Groovy, shell, and Python scripts, including Docker image builds, security scanning, SonarQube integration, and automated AWS compliance checks. Led migration from a legacy monolithic architecture to a microservices-based platform, ensuring seamless deployment of customer-facing applications and internal services with consistent infrastructure standards. Implemented infrastructure automation and configuration management using Ansible and Terraform, including reusable modules via Terragrunt for multi-environment deployments. Deployed and managed containerized workloads on Docker and ECS/EKS clusters, integrating monitoring, logging, and observability tools to support platfo

DevOps & SRE Contractor at Vitrifi

Developed and tested Infrastructure-as-Code solutions using Terraform to provision and manage scalable, reliable cloud infrastructure. Managed and maintained Ansible repositories for comprehensive infrastructure configuration, integrating SecOps and FinOps checks with automated testing and validation. Built and maintained Kubernetes clusters from scratch using kubespray and kubeadm, enabling highly available and production-ready environments. Created and standardized Helm chart repositories to streamline deployment of microservices across multiple environments. Designed and implemented GitLab CI/CD pipelines for automated AWS infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and application delivery. Deployed and managed Kubernetes clusters hosting cloud-native applications, including Rook Ceph, Percona MySQL, Kea DHCP, RADIUS, Knot Resolver, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Fluent Bit, and GitLab Runner, with integrated monitoring and logging. Delivered applications consistently across developmen

DevOps Performance Contractor at Crisp Thinking

Developed Azure DevOps deployment pipelines and performance testing scripts to support applications serving millions of users. Implemented multi-OAuth web logins and orchestrated cloud-based content through Kubernetes, leveraging JMeter for load and performance testing. Managed and analyzed application data using advanced Elasticsearch queries, integrated with Kibana dashboards and Logstash pipelines. Utilized Taurus to generate detailed performance reports, driving high-quality deliverables and providing insights to executive leadership. Automated performance testing and monitoring processes, significantly improving reliability, scalability, and quality of customer-facing applications.

Automation Engineer Consultant at Eagle Eye

Foundational configurations GCP vendors utilizing Terraform Infrastructure as Code (IaC), successfully implementing multi-provider configurations within Proof-of-Concept scenarios. Implemented deployment strategies for both cloud and local environments using Docker Compose YAML scripts, seamless integration and consistency in deployment processes. Executed the migration of a monolithic application into small, manageable microservice chunks using Docker's containerization and isolation techniques. Conducted performance benchmarking for messaging systems, such as RabbitMQ, GCP PubSub, and AWS S3 buckets, using extensive file processing. Developed a declarative CI/CD pipeline using Jenkinsfile, incorporating SSH scripting for efficient release management on GitHub. Successfully deployed releases and executed test cycles, sharing Jenkins CI/CD results with relevant teams, and establishing continuous bug-fixing processes based on these reports.

Operations Engineer at Turk Telekom

GSM to fix line convergence gateway solution to IOS and Android application. Installation, configuration, deployment, support management. Design, develop and execute automation scripts using open-source tools.