Samet Ustaoğlu
Cloud Architect & DevOps Engineer · Germany · Türkiye
Cloud architect and DevOps engineer with 7+ years of experience designing, automating and operating cloud and hybrid infrastructure across AWS, Google Cloud, Azure and on-premises — from Kubernetes platforms and CI/CD pipelines to infrastructure as code. I build end-to-end observability with monitoring, logging and tracing, so teams can ship reliable, secure and cost-efficient systems. Before tech, I spent eight years as an instructor UAV pilot in the Turkish Air Force.
- years in DevOps & cloud
- 7+
- certifications
- 15
- Kubernetes certs · Kubestronaut
- 5/5
- cloud cost cut at Wand
- −55%
01. Experience
- Dec 2023 — Present
Senior Cloud & DevOps Engineer · Hepapi
- Managed RKE2 Kubernetes clusters end-to-end with Rancher.
- Automated configuration and deployments with Ansible.
- Delivered APM (Dynatrace), monitoring & alerting (Prometheus stack) and logging (ELK) solutions.
- Led GitOps initiatives with ArgoCD; built secure, reusable pipeline templates with Azure DevOps and Jenkins.
- Provisioned multi-environment AWS infrastructure with Terraform and Terragrunt.
- Mentored junior engineers to grow team capabilities.
- Sept 2022 — Dec 2023
Senior Cloud & DevOps Engineer · Wand
- Cut infrastructure cost from $40K to $18K per month with autoscaling, right-sizing and scheduling.
- Built CI pipelines on GitHub Actions and FluxCD-based delivery for ML applications.
- Deployed Prometheus stack, Loki and Grafana for monitoring and logging.
- Built infrastructure with Terragrunt and deployed applications to GKE.
- Integrated managed services such as MongoDB Atlas, Snowflake, New Relic, Sentry and Stripe.
- Jun 2020 — Sept 2022
Cloud & DevOps Engineer · Global IT
- Led migrations to Google Cloud with seamless integration and minimal downtime.
- Modernized applications as microservices on GKE, Cloud Run and App Engine.
- Reduced costs by up to 50% through optimization and infrastructure as code.
- Built CI/CD pipelines with Cloud Build and ArgoCD.
- Provided technical support and issue resolution across GCP services.
- Dec 2018 — Jun 2020
Cloud & DevOps Engineer · WesterOps
- Built GitLab CI pipelines and deployed applications to AWS EKS.
- Created infrastructure with Terraform and CloudFormation.
- Implemented logging and monitoring with ELK, Grafana, Zabbix and Elastic APM.
- Optimized deployment workflows for high availability and performance.
- Sept 2010 — Feb 2018
Instructor UAV Pilot · Turkish Air Force
- Served as UAV pilot and instructor pilot on ANKA and Heron UAVs.
02. Skills
Cloud
Containers & Orchestration
CI/CD & GitOps
Infrastructure as Code
Observability · Monitoring, Logging & Tracing
Other
03. Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
Amazon Web Services · Jun 2025
KCSA: Kubernetes and Cloud Native Security Associate
The Linux Foundation · Jan 2025
Kubestronaut
The Linux Foundation · Jan 2025
KCNA: Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate
The Linux Foundation · Jan 2025
Professional Cloud Security Engineer Certification
Google Cloud · Jun 2024 Expired
Professional Cloud Network Engineer Certification
Google Cloud · Jun 2024 Expired
Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer Certification
Google Cloud · May 2023 Expired
CKS: Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist
The Linux Foundation · Feb 2023 Expired
Professional Data Engineer Certification
Google Cloud · Dec 2022 Expired
Professional Cloud Architect Certification
Google Cloud · Dec 2022 Expired
Associate Cloud Engineer Certification
Google Cloud · Nov 2022 Expired
CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator
The Linux Foundation · Sept 2022 Expired
CKAD: Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
The Linux Foundation · Jul 2022 Expired
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Amazon Web Services · Jun 2022
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Amazon Web Services · Apr 2022
04. Education
- Turkish National Defense UniversitySept 2006 — Aug 2010
B.Eng. Computer Engineering — top 10% GPA, honors student
05. Projects
sametustaoglu.com ↗
This website — Astro static site, deployed on Cloudflare Pages via Git push.
06. Blog
07. Contact
Have a project, a role or just want to talk infrastructure? Reach out.
Or email me directly: samet@sametustaoglu.com