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Senior Cloud & Platform Engineer | Agentic DevOps

Köln, Deutschland
Köln +25 km
MSc Degree in Computer Engineering, University of Arizona
Köln, Deutschland
Köln +25 km
MSc Degree in Computer Engineering, University of Arizona

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Über mich

Senior Cloud & Platform Engineer with 5+ years running production-grade AWS, Kubernetes, and CI/CD systems - now focused on the operational layer that AI agents need to run safely and reliably at scale.

Skills

Amazon Web ServicesAmazon Elastic Compute CloudAmazon S3Cloud ComputingCloud-SicherheitCloud-EngineeringCloud-ServerDevOpsCloud-ServicesPrometheusAWS CDKS3 BucketCloud PlatformDocker for AWSDocker SwarmGrafanaCloud TechnologiesAWS VPCAWS ECSKubernetesCloud IntegrationCloud-OptimierungCloudwatchTerraformAWS EKS
AWS Cloud Engineering
Expertise in designing, building and maintaining cloud infrastructure on AWS, including EC2, ECS, EKS, ECR, Lambda, Serverless, CloudWatch, EFS and cost optimization. Holder of three AWS certifications: Solutions Architect Associate, SysOps Administrator Associate and DevOps Engineer Professional.

Kubernetes & Container Orchestration
Deep knowledge of Kubernetes administration and security, backed by two Kubernetes certifications (CKA and CKS). Hands-on experience building production-grade CI/CD pipelines on Kubernetes using Tekton and managing containerized workloads with Docker.

CI/CD & DevOps Automation
Extensive experience implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, Tekton and AWS-native services. Proven track record of assisting development teams with daily CI/CD and cloud-related challenges and building infrastructure as code templates for faster deployments.

Infrastructure as Code
Creation and maintenance of high-quality infrastructure as code templates to speed up infrastructure deployments and manage production systems reliably.

Cloud Cost Optimization
Identification and resolution of cost optimization opportunities in cloud environments, including EC2 compute optimizations, unused CloudWatch dashboards and EFS lifecycle misconfigurations, resulting in significant monthly savings.

Python Programming
Use of Python for automation, IoT projects and open source development, including a honeypot project deployed on Raspberry Pi using Docker containers.

AI & Machine Learning on AWS
Building end-to-end AI solutions on AWS, including proof of concept anomaly detection from IoT sensors, using services such as Amazon SageMaker, Forecast and QuickSight.

Monitoring & Observability
Proactive improvement and documentation of monitoring systems for better cost visibility and operational transparency across cloud infrastructure.

Cybersecurity & Network Security
Academic and practical background in cyber security, systems cyber security, cloud security and fundamentals of computer networks, complemented by research publications on cybersecurity testbeds.

IoT & Embedded Systems
Practical experience with IoT sensor data processing, honeypot deployments on Raspberry Pi and modular robotic platforms using ROS, LIDAR, C++ and 3D modeling.

Erfahrung

Berufserfahrung5 - 10 Jahre
Freelancer seit2026

Sprachen

DeutschGrundkenntnisseEnglischverhandlungssicherTürkischMuttersprache

Projekthistorie

Founder

CognitaStack
Founded CognitaStack as a sole proprietorship alongside working as a Cloud Engineer at Ambient. Providing professional Cloud Engineering workshop training to German companies under the infrasprint.com brand. Also developed a software product on Steam called sentinelsignal.com to assist PC gamers manage their gaming time.

Creator - Simple IoT Honeypot

Personal Project
Open source honeypot project for deploying a honeypot on Raspberry Pi as a Docker container using Docker Pirates. Built to create educational content about honeypots, Python programming, Docker and IoT. Technologies: Python, Docker, Honeypot, IoT.

Creator - Little Mapper (Modular 2D Mapping Robot)

Personal Project / TUBITAK
Open source modular robotic platform focused on 2D mapping and self-recharging. Funded by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) with an undergraduate research project support program. Awarded with special jury prize at ITU Robot Olympics 2017. Technologies: ROS, LIDAR, C++, 3D Modeling.

Cloud Engineer

Ambient
Part of the cloud engineering team responsible for building and maintaining cloud infrastructure for production workloads and hosting internal tooling. Assisted software developers with daily CI/CD and cloud-related problems, maintained infrastructure, provided consultation for cloud infrastructures to external companies, created and maintained infrastructure as code templates, improved monitoring systems and launched a DevOps Community of Practice for cloud learning labs.

Cloud Native Engineer

Bestcloudfor.me
Part of an agile team serving large enterprises to assist with DevOps workflows and designing and building cloud native solutions for production environments. Assisted customers with daily CI/CD and AWS-related problems, identified cost optimization opportunities saving over $4000/month on AWS, helped the team acquire knowledge of Tekton CI/CD on Kubernetes, built end-to-end AI solutions on AWS for anomaly detection from IoT sensors, and helped establish documentation for tracking technical debt. Technologies: DevOps, Kubernetes, Tekton Pipelines, AWS, Jenkins, Amazon SageMaker, Forecast, QuickSight, Python, ECS, EKS, ECR, AWS Lambda, Serverless, Elasticsearch, AWS Cost Optimization.

Research Assistant

University of Arizona
MSc research assistant with 100% scholarship. Conducted research in areas including cyber security, cloud security, applied machine learning and IoT. Co-authored multiple publications on cloud computing, HPC, cybersecurity testbeds and semantic graph-based visualizations.

Zertifikate

CKS: Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist

The Linux Foundation

2024

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional

Amazon Web Services Training and Certification

2023

CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator

The Linux Foundation

2022

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

Amazon Web Services Training and Certification

2021


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