available for opportunities

Hey, I'm Osman ALP

DevOps Engineer & 3× AWS Certified — I build, automate, and scale things in the cloud.

Passionate about Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, and making complex systems reliable and observable. I also write about what I learn — because good knowledge is meant to be shared.

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osman@alp: ~/cloud

NAME ROLE CERTS ARTICLES STATUS osmanalp devops/sre 3×AWS 55 ● Available

Years in IT

IT Admin → SysOps → DevOps/SRE

AWS Certifications

Cloud Practitioner · SA · SysOps

Articles Published

AWS · Kubernetes · DevOps

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A bit about who I am

I'm a DevOps Engineer focused on cloud-native infrastructure, with deep hands-on experience in AWS, Kubernetes, and the modern DevOps toolchain. I care a lot about building systems that are not just functional, but observable, resilient, and a joy to operate.

Beyond the day-to-day work, I enjoy writing technical articles — breaking down complex cloud and DevOps topics in a way that's actually useful for other engineers. I believe that clear documentation and knowledge sharing make our whole community stronger.

When I'm not automating things, I'm probably exploring a new café in Antalya or diving into a good series recommendation from a friend.

"One AI creates, two AIs improve."
— Osman ALP

AWS Certified ×3 Kubernetes Infrastructure as Code GitOps / ArgoCD

Antalya, TR · UTC+3

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Work Experience

8 years in IT across system administration, cloud security ops, and cloud-native DevOps — each role pushing deeper into infrastructure automation.

DevOps / SRE Engineer

Nov 2023 — Present

Paximum — Global Travel Marketplace

Leading cloud-native infrastructure on AWS EKS. Modularized Terraform codebase, built GitOps pipelines with ArgoCD and Kustomize, and implemented full observability with Grafana, Loki, Tempo, and Mimir. Set up CloudFront + WAF for API protection and latency reduction. Supporting the software team with CI/CD workflows via AWS CodeBuild, CodePipeline, and Bitbucket integrations.

AWS EKSTerraformArgoCDKubernetesGrafana StackCloudFront / WAFCodePipelineLambdaOpenSearchRedis

SysOps Administrator

Dec 2021 — Nov 2023

Invicti Security

Managed multi-account AWS networking with 20+ IPSec connections across regions. Handled endpoint security via MDM/MAM, built IaC automation with PowerShell and Terraform, and maintained compliance with ISO and SOC2 frameworks. Responsible for production server lifecycle, OS patching, backups, and security tooling including CrowdStrike, Alert Logic, and MS Defender.

AWSIPSec / VPNTerraformPowerShellCrowdStrikeJamfISO / SOC2Perimeter81

IT System Administrator

Jun 2018 — Dec 2021

SAN TSG — Paximum Global Travel Marketplace

Provided technical support for 5,000+ external clients and 120 on-site employees. Monitored 250+ virtual machines across remote datacenters, optimized network performance, managed CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, and maintained Linux/Docker infrastructure for ERP systems.

LinuxDockerJenkinsVMware / Hyper-VWindows ServerZabbixNetworkingPRTG

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Certifications

AWS certifications verified on Credly — covering cloud foundations, architecture, and operations.

AMAZON WEB SERVICES

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What I work with

Not a buzzword list — a declarative snapshot of infrastructure I actually run in production, from cluster autoscaling to end-to-end tracing. Written the way I'd ship it: as a manifest.

stack.yamlYAML

apiVersion: osmanalp.com/v1
kind: Engineer
metadata:
  name: osmanalp
  location: antalya-tr
  labels:
    role: devops-sre
    certified: aws-x3
spec:
  cloud:
    provider: aws
    compute:     [EKS, EC2, Lambda, ECR, Karpenter]
    networking:  [VPC, CloudFront, Route53, ACM, WAF, ALB/NLB, API-Gateway]
    data:        [Aurora-PostgreSQL, DocumentDB, DynamoDB, ElastiCache-Redis, OpenSearch, S3]
    security:    [IAM, KMS, Secrets-Manager, SSM]
  kubernetes:
    packaging:   [Helm, Helmfile, Kustomize]
    gitops:      ArgoCD
    autoscaling: Karpenter
    gateway:     [Kong, Gateway-API]
    runtime:     [Dapr, Secrets-Store-CSI]
  infrastructureAsCode: [Terraform, Terragrunt]
  observability:
    metrics:   [Prometheus, Mimir, Grafana]
    logs:      Loki
    traces:    Tempo
    telemetry: [Alloy, OpenTelemetry]
  cicd:      [CodePipeline, CodeBuild, SonarQube]
  messaging: [RabbitMQ, Dapr-PubSub, Redis]
  build:     [dotnet, NuGet, Node, npm, Bash]
status:
  phase: Running
  articlesPublished: 55
  conditions:
    - type: AvailableForOpportunities
      status: "True"  # kubectl describe engineer osmanalp

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Latest Articles

I write about AWS, Kubernetes, and DevOps best practices on Medium. 55 articles and counting — here are the latest.

AWS ECS

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Let's connect

Whether you want to talk cloud architecture, collaborate on something, or just say hi — I'm always happy to hear from fellow engineers.

Hey, I'm Osman ALP

A bit about who I am

Work Experience

DevOps / SRE Engineer

SysOps Administrator

IT System Administrator

Certifications

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Associate

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator — Associate

What I work with

Latest Articles

Persistent Storage for ECS Fargate: Why Amazon EFS Is the Cross-AZ Answer

Enforcing Server-Side Encryption on Amazon S3: How to Guarantee Every Upload Is Encrypted

Mastering AWS Elastic Beanstalk Data Persistence: When to Decouple RDS and When to Let ElastiCache

Mastering Kubernetes Observability: Deploying Grafana with Loki, Tempo, Mimir, and Alloy

Zero Downtime Deployments with Kubernetes Using ALB and NGINX

Implementing ArgoCD with Terraform Helm Chart Provider for EKS CI/CD Pipelines

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