Senior Platform Engineer (100% Remote within Türkiye)

Role overview Own the production platform supporting healthcare and telehealth products in Türkiye, with a focus on local data residency and Ministry of Health compliance. You’ll operate AWS Kubernetes infrastructure, lead a move from managed relational databases to databases on Kubernetes, and work with local product and compliance teams alongside a global platform group.

Responsibilities - Run and evolve EKS clusters, including upgrades, node lifecycle, autoscaling, resource policies, networking, deployment, and observability. - Plan and deliver the database migration, covering operator selection, replication, cutover, rollback, backups, and point-in-time recovery. - Operate migrated databases and application workloads written in PHP, .NET, and Node.js; maintain availability through safe releases, scaling, and incident response. - Manage GitOps delivery, environment promotion, and rollout strategies such as canary or blue-green deployments. - Provide evidence for compliance controls covering data location, encryption, secrets, privileged access, backups, and audit logging. - Set service objectives and actionable monitoring, troubleshoot performance, and automate infrastructure with cost awareness.

Requirements - At least five years operating production infrastructure, with deep hands-on Kubernetes experience across stateless and stateful workloads. - Production experience running a Kubernetes operator and sound judgment about cluster changes and operational risks. - Strong AWS knowledge, especially EKS, networking, storage, identity, multi-availability-zone design, and cost management; comparable cloud experience may be relevant. - Practical experience with autoscaling, GitOps tools such as Argo CD or Flux, deployment strategies, and cluster or service networking. - Ability to work with relational databases, monitoring and observability systems, and security controls such as encryption, secrets management, and privileged access. - Daily use of AI coding tools with responsibility for reviewing and owning the code and infrastructure definitions they produce; professional English and native Turkish.

Nice to have - Operating relational databases on Kubernetes and migrating databases between platforms; disaster recovery planning, backup verification, and restore exercises. - Experience providing evidence for security or healthcare audits, working with data residency constraints or AWS Local Zones, or supporting WebRTC media infrastructure and Turkish regulatory systems.

Benefits and work setup The position is remote within Türkiye. Benefits include private health insurance, access to an emotional well-being service, birthday leave, and three additional motivation days each year.