Mert Oz

About Mert Oz

I work as a DevOps Engineer, focusing on building and running cloud platforms that teams…

Experience

1. Cloud & Devops Engineer

   Nioyatech Ai, Cloud & Digital Transformation

   Sep 2023 — Present · VA, US

   Developed hands-on expertise in AWS Cloud, Docker, and Kubernetes by implementing complex business services leveraging Git, GitHub, GitLab, AWS CLI, EC2, ECR, VPC, Bash, Python, CloudFormation, Maven, Jenkins, Ansible, and Docker Compose.Supported multiple environments (DEV, QA, STG, and PROD) across frequent release cycles, ensuring consistent deployments and high system availability.Designed and configured core AWS networking components — including VPCs, Internet and NAT Gateways, subnets, Security Groups, NACLs, and Route Tables — to enable secure and efficient connectivity.Automated infrastructure provisioning and lifecycle management with Terraform, cutting manual errors by over 50% and improving operational efficiency by 75%.Enhanced delivery speed by 30% through Terraform-driven updates for production, staging, and development environments.Configured Kubernetes resources such as Pods, Deployments, Services, Ingress, and Gateway API, achieving 20% higher resource utilization.Built and optimized CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab, and Kubernetes, improving release velocity by 25% and ensuring smooth end-to-end deployment flows.Managed and maintained Docker containers, images, and networking layers to optimize compute utilization by 20%.Collaborated with a team to deploy a Prometheus and Grafana monitoring stack for a microservices architecture, increasing visibility, performance insights, and system reliability.Implemented Prometheus-based monitoring for multi-node infrastructure, improving availability and response metrics by 35%.

Education

• Milli Savunma Üniversitesi

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical and Electronics Engineering