Mertcan GÖKGÖZ

Mertcan GÖKGÖZ

DevOps Engineer

I'm a DevOps Engineer and trying my best to add some fun to places where your face might show up. Previously worked on the DevOps/NetOps team to help automate processes and increase productivity

Work Experience

DevOps Engineer

BRANDEFENSE BİLİŞİM DANIŞMANLIK SANAYİ VE TİCARET A.Ş.

06/2019 — Present
Achievements/Tasks
  • Infrastructure Architect: Designed, installed, managed and maintained company's entire infrastructure on AWS, Exoscale, OVH and DO with Terraform and Ansible. Been responsible from authorization, security, maintenance, PKI and VPN
  • Automation: Dockerized, developed CI/CD pipelines and automated deployments of every microservices.
  • Security Scans: Implemented periodical security scans and security updates/fixes to every image and baremetal servers.
  • Monitoring: Setup monitoring tools; Implemented monitoring and alerting systems with Prometheus, Grafana, Graylog and ELK.
  • Networking: Configured and managed network devices, VPNs, VLANs, and firewalls.
  • Database Management: Managed PostgreSQL and MongoDB databases.
  • Backup: Implemented backup and restore strategies for databases and files.
  • Python Development: Developed internal tools and services with Python FastAPI and Django.

System Engineer

Horus Bilgi İletişim Tekknolojileri A.Ş.

09/2017 — 01/2019
Achievements/Tasks
  • 7/24 remote support to debian and centos based systems.
  • Managed bare metal dedicated Debian servers and later AWS EC2 instances, S3 buckets, CloudFronts and RabbitMQ
  • Developed complex web projects using django and i prepared installation, configuration and management scripts with Ansible.
  • Migrated from Microsoft Windows Server systems to GNU/Linux systems.
  • I made virtualizations on Vmware ESXI.
  • Prepared installation, configuration and management scripts with Ansible.

System Engineer

Forte Bilgi İletişim Teknolojileri ve Savunma Sanayi A.Ş.

02/2017 — 09/2017
Achievements/Tasks
  • Performed the installation and configuration of IPS/IDS hardware.
  • Configured Cisco, HP, Dell and Extreme brand network devices.
  • Setup DELL, HP and IBM servers.
  • I assisted end users in solving problems.
  • Migrated to the Vmware Horizon desktop virtualization infrastructure.

System Engineer Intern

Özgür Yazılım A.S.

06/2016 — 08/2016
Achievements/Tasks
  • Configured and maintained GNU/Linux servers and wrote monitoring scripts.
  • Setup CI and CD to automatize tests and builds with GitLab CI

Skills

  • GNU/Windows/Linux System Administration
  • Ansible/Terraform
  • AWS
  • Apache/Nginx
  • Python/PHP
  • ESXi/Proxmox
  • Wordpress
  • Routing/Switching
  • Django/Fastapi
  • PostgreSQL/MySQL/MongoDB
  • OpenStack
  • Docker/Kubernetes

Achievements & Workshops

  • DevOps 101/Linux 101 on Hacktrickconf

Personal Projects

Organizations

Linux Evi Linux System Administrators Organization

02/2024 — Present

Network Administrators Association of Turkey

04/2017 — Present

Hacktrick: Cyber Security Conf

05/2017 — Present

Education

Management Information System

2012 — 2017
Başkent University

Languages

  • English
  • Turkish