Uğur Duran

Senior DevOps Engineer with 6+ years of experience designing and operating highly available on-premises and multi-cloud platforms across GCP, Azure, AWS, and OpenShift. Deep expertise in Kubernetes, CI/CD automation, infrastructure as code, secrets management, and observability. Known for modernizing platforms, eliminating manual deployment steps, and partnering across engineering and business teams to improve reliability, security, and delivery speed.

Senior DevOps Engineer II at Wingie Enuygun Group (2025-05 – 2026-07)

• Architected and operated scalable multi-cloud infrastructure across Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure, balancing availability, performance, and cost.
• Orchestrated highly available microservices with Kubernetes, Rancher, and Argo Workflows for mission-critical production workloads.
• Designed enterprise secrets-management architecture with HashiCorp Vault, strengthening access control and security across environments.
• Optimized centralized logging and telemetry pipelines with OpenSearch and Elasticsearch to improve operational visibility and incident response.

Senior DevOps Engineer at KOBIL (2022-09 – 2025-05)

• Led Kubernetes and OpenShift infrastructure upgrades for the IstanbulSenin superapp, maintaining platform stability and scalability.
• Designed highly available, fault-tolerant Kubernetes architectures for core services and automated deployment workflows through Jenkins CI/CD.
• Standardized delivery processes to reduce manual release effort and deployment risk across environments.

DevOps Engineer at Vodafone (2020-10 – 2022-09)

• Led the end-to-end migration of the Tobi chatbot from Docker to OpenShift and built automated Jenkins pipelines for test, pre-production, and production.
• Coordinated technical delivery and communication across development, operations, and business stakeholders.

DevOps Engineer (Junior to Senior) at BestCloudForMe (2020-03 – 2022-09)

• Built and maintained AWS delivery platforms using Jenkins, Nexus, SonarQube, Bitbucket, Ansible, Docker Swarm, and Kubernetes.
• Automated operational work with Ansible, Python, and Bash; implemented proactive monitoring and alerting with Prometheus and Grafana.
• Administered Nginx, Redis, Elasticsearch, Kibana, MongoDB, and RabbitMQ across production environments.

B.Sc. in Computer Engineering – Çukurova University (2015-09 – 2020-06)