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Mehmet Kanus

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Platform/DevOps Engineer and Cloud Architect with 5+ years in IT and 4+ years specializing in cloud-native technologies. CKA certified. Expert in Kubernetes, GitOps with ArgoCD, Service Mesh with Istio, and CI/CD pipelines across AWS, Azure, and on-prem environments.

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5+ Years experience

30+ Microservices managed

CKA Kubernetes certified

CKA Certified

Open to Work

stack.yaml

experience: 5+ years IT / 4+ DevOps

orchestration:
  - Kubernetes (CKA certified)
  - OpenShift · RKE2 · AKS · EKS

gitops:
  - ArgoCD · Helm · GitHub Actions
  - GitLab CI/CD · Jenkins

cloud: AWS · Azure · On-Prem

service_mesh: Istio (mTLS, VirtualSvc)
cni: Cilium · Calico · Canal
secrets: Vault · Azure KV · AWS SM

observability:
  - Prometheus · Grafana · ELK
  - Loki · Fluentd · Elastic APM

iac: Terraform · Ansible (Kubespray)
networking: NGINX · HAProxy · Traefik

Kubernetes ArgoCD Helm Terraform Ansible Prometheus Grafana Istio Cilium HashiCorp Vault AWS Azure GitLab CI GitHub Actions ELK Stack Docker Kubernetes ArgoCD Helm Terraform Ansible Prometheus Grafana Istio Cilium HashiCorp Vault AWS Azure GitLab CI GitHub Actions ELK Stack Docker

PostgreSQL Redis Kafka ClickHouse MongoDB RKE2 OpenShift Velero Fluentd Loki kube-bench Traefik NGINX Ingress HAProxy eBPF Elastic APM PostgreSQL Redis Kafka ClickHouse MongoDB RKE2 OpenShift Velero Fluentd Loki kube-bench Traefik NGINX Ingress HAProxy eBPF Elastic APM

Core Competencies

What I build & operate

Deep technical experience across the full cloud-native stack — from cluster bootstrapping to security hardening.

Cloud Architecture

Multi-cloud strategy across AWS, Azure, and on-premise RKE2. Designing scalable, fault-tolerant platforms aligned with business goals.

AWSAzureRKE2

Kubernetes & GitOps

Production Kubernetes clusters with ArgoCD App-of-Apps, Helm umbrella charts, and fully automated GitOps deployment pipelines.

K8sArgoCDHelm

CI/CD Automation

End-to-end GitLab CI/CD pipelines with Slack notifications, parallel job control, artifact caching, and blue-green Helm deployments.

GitLab CIGitHub Actions

DevSecOps

HashiCorp Vault KV v2 secrets management, mTLS with Istio, CNI security with Cilium/eBPF, and SAST/DAST pipeline integration.

VaultIstioCilium

Observability

Full-stack monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, and Elastic Stack. Distributed tracing with Elastic APM across .NET microservices.

PrometheusGrafanaELK

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform and Ansible for declarative, version-controlled infrastructure. Automated provisioning across multi-cloud and on-prem environments.

TerraformAnsible

Mehmet Kanus

What I build & operate

Cloud Architecture

Kubernetes & GitOps

CI/CD Automation

DevSecOps

Observability

Infrastructure as Code

Recent articles

End-to-End DevOps: Multi-Master Kubernetes with Terraform, Ansible & GitOps CI/CD

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