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Istanbul, Turkey

Istanbul, Türkiye

Istanbul, Türkiye

Istanbul, Turkey

•Lead global information technology, information security, application security and offensive security engineering teams.•Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and provide appropriate security solutions.•Create and develop security frameworks.•Develop and improve application security and cloud platforms.•Improve security of development and deployment process.•Improve security monitoring processes to enhance security visibility for issues.•Internal and external audits and compliances.•Create and develop privacy training and awareness program.•Ensured the evaluation, selection, and implementation of new technologies.•Conducted risk analysis and took necessary precautions.•Developed and maintained of continuity and resilience planning, policies, standards, and implementation principles in compliance with legal regulations and standards.•Manage regulation ISO27001, PCI-DSS, GDPR and KVKK•Managed IT vendors, conducted contract negotiations, and service agreements.•Managed the budget and procurement of Information Security and IT departments.•Developed strong, capable teams and delegated tasks according to company needs.•Defined goals and created strategies for team members to fulfill responsibilities.

Istanbul, Turkey

• Led technology engineering teams. (DevOps, Infrastructure and Cloud Architect, Middleware, System, Cloud, Network, Cybersecurity, Information Security, Database, Monitoring and Business Analysis).• Ensured high availability and scalability of infrastructure and application workloads on Virtual and Microservice platforms, achieving 99.9999% uptime. • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and provide appropriate solutions.• Improved the performance of all layers (infrastructure, APIs, middleware, and applications).• Improved and developed SDLC and CI/CD processes.• Improved monitoring processes to provide support and troubleshoot for issues.• Designed, configured, and maintained infrastructure and middleware.• Conducted root cause analysis and resolution.• Kept infrastructure and middleware systems up to date to meet security and regulatory requirements. • Ensured the evaluation, selection, and implementation of new technologies.• Conducted risk analysis and took necessary precautions.• Developed and maintained of continuity and resilience planning, policies, standards, and implementation principles in compliance with legal regulations and standards.• Managed IT vendors, conducted contract negotiations, and service agreements.• Managed the budget and procurement of Technology Department.• Developed strong, capable teams and delegated tasks according to company needs.• Defined goals and created strategies for team members to fulfill responsibilities.

Istanbul, Turkey

• Led technology engineering teams. (SRE, DevOps, Infrastructure and Cloud Architect, Middleware, System, Cloud, Network, Cybersecurity, Information Security, Database, NOC, Business Analysis and Local IT)..• Ensured high availability and scalability of infrastructure and application workloads on Virtual and Microservice platforms, achieving 99.9999% uptime.• Managed, designed, and configured cloud DCs.• Managed and load balanced high web traffic over the on-premises and cloud DCs. • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and provide appropriate solutions.• Improved performance of infrastructure (on-premises and cloud), APIs, middleware, and applications.• Improved and developed SDLC and CI/CD processes.• Improved monitoring processes to provide support and troubleshoot for issues.• Designed, configured, and maintained infrastructure (on-premises and cloud) and middleware.• Conducted root cause analysis and resolution.• Kept infrastructure (on-premises and cloud) and middleware systems up to date to meet security and regulatory requirements. • Ensured the evaluation, selection, and implementation of new technologies.• Conducted risk analysis and took necessary precautions.• Managed IT vendors, conducted contract negotiations and service agreements.• Managed the budget and procurement of Technology Department.• Developed strong, capable teams and delegated tasks according to company needs.• Defined goals and created strategies for team members to fulfill responsibilities.

Istanbul, Turkey

• Led technology engineering teams. (SRE, DevOps, Infrastructure Middleware, System, Network, Cybersecurity, NOC, Business Analysis and Local IT)..• Ensured high availability and scalability of infrastructure and application workloads on Virtual and Microservice platforms, achieving 99.9999% uptime.• Designed, managed, and configured Active/Active on-prems DC.• Managed and load balanced high web traffic over the on-premises Active/Active DCs. • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and provide appropriate solutions.• Improved performance of infrastructure, APIs, middleware, and applications.• Managed, configured and designed API GW security.• Improved monitoring processes to provide support and troubleshoot for issues.• Designed, configured, and maintained infrastructure and middleware.• Conducted root cause analysis and resolution.• Kept infrastructure and middleware systems up to date to meet security and regulatory requirements. • Ensured the evaluation, selection, and implementation of new technologies.• Conducted risk analysis and took necessary precautions.• Managed IT vendors, conducted contract negotiations, and managed service agreements.• Managed budget and procurement of Technology Department.• Developed strong, capable teams and delegated tasks according to company needs.• Defined goals and creating strategies for team members to fulfill responsibilities.

İstanbul

• Led Infrastructure, Network, Cybersecurity and NOC teams.• Ensured high availability of infrastructure and application achieving 99.9999% uptime.• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and provide appropriate solutions.• Managed, designed and configured infrastructure such as network appliances, Cybersecurity systems, load balancers, packet sampling systems etc. • Improved monitoring processes to provide support and troubleshoot for issues.• Conducted root cause analysis and resolution.• Kept infrastructure up to date to meet security and regulatory requirements. • Ensured the evaluation, selection, and implementation of new technologies.• Conducted risk analysis and took necessary precautions.• Managed IT vendors, conducted contract negotiations, and service agreements.• Managed budget and procurement of Technology Department.• Developed strong, capable teams and delegated tasks according to company needs.• Defined goals and created strategies for team members to fulfill responsibilities.

Istanbul, Turkey

• Led network and network security teams, ensuring the operation of our customer's networks.

Istanbul, Turkey

• I served as a master trainer at Bilgeadam, providing training in Microsoft Server Family (Windows Server 2003, Exchange, CA, ISA, IIS) and Cisco (Routing and switching).

Master'S Degree, Management Information Systems, General

Bachelor'S Degree, Business Administration And Management, General

Mechatronics, Robotics, And Automation Engineering

High School Diploma, Technical Electronics