Senior Platform Engineer (100% Remote within Türkiye)
Docplanner2 days ago
Istanbul, TurkeySenior
Responsibilities
- Run and maintain production Kubernetes/EKS clusters, including node lifecycles, upgrades, autoscaling, networking, resource policies, and high availability.
- Lead the migration of relational databases from RDS to databases running on EKS, including operator selection, replication, cutover, rollback, backups, and point-in-time recovery.
- Operate migrated databases, including failover, upgrades, storage performance, capacity management, and incident response.
- Maintain highly available PHP, .NET, and Node.js workloads with safe deployments, graceful shutdowns, and right-sized scaling.
- Own GitOps delivery through Argo CD, including rolling, blue-green, and canary deployment strategies and environment promotion.
- Design and debug ingress, network policies, cross-cluster and cross-VPC communication, and controlled egress to Ministry systems.
- Build observability using Datadog, including SLOs, alerts, APM, database monitoring, and audit-grade logging.
- Own platform compliance evidence covering data residency, encryption, secrets, privileged access, backups, and Ministry audit requirements.
- Automate infrastructure, manage platform costs, and support disaster recovery, backup verification, and restore testing.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience operating production infrastructure.
- Deep production Kubernetes experience with both stateless and stateful workloads and at least one Kubernetes operator.
- In-depth AWS experience covering EKS, networking, storage, identity, multi-AZ design, and cost awareness, or comparable cloud experience.
- Experience with workload and cluster autoscaling, including KEDA, Karpenter, or similar tools.
- Experience with GitOps, Argo CD or Flux, deployment strategies, Kubernetes networking, services, ingress, network policies, and cross-cluster communication.
- Experience with observability tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, and Grafana, including SLOs, alerting, application monitoring, and database monitoring.
- Practical security experience with encryption in transit and at rest, secrets management, and privileged access to clusters and databases.
- Comfort operating relational databases as the platform owner, with database-on-Kubernetes and migration experience strongly preferred.
- Experience with disaster recovery, RPO/RTO, backup verification, restore drills, audits, data residency, or AWS Local Zones is preferred.
- Telehealth media infrastructure experience with WebRTC, TURN, or SFU scaling and familiarity with Turkish regulators or Ministry systems are strong pluses.
- Daily use of AI coding tools such as Cursor or Claude Code, with ownership of all shipped code and manifests.
- Professional English at B2+ level and native Turkish.
Benefits
- Private health insurance.
- Access to the ifeel emotional well-being tool.
- Free birthday leave.
- Three motivation-leave days each year.
- 100% remote work within Türkiye.
- Equal-opportunity hiring and workplace support for candidates requiring recruitment accommodations.
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About Docplanner
Docplanner builds an online healthcare marketplace for patients and a suite of SaaS tools for clinics, including scheduling, patient communications, documentation, and payments. The company operates in 13 countries across Europe and Latin America, monetizing via provider subscriptions and premium listings. Founded in 2012 in Poland and now headquartered in Amsterdam, it also offers Noa.ai, an AI assistant launched in 2024 to reduce administrative work for clinicians.