Profile

Berkay Güçlü

Linux System Administrator · Ankara, Turkey

System Administrator specializing in Linux and Kubernetes-based infrastructures, with a strong focus on automation and observability. Experienced in designing and managing reliable, scalable and sustainable systems for customer environments of every scale. Continuously improving my technical skills by closely following industry developments.

Experience

4+yrs
2021 →

Trainings given

8
Özgür Yazılım · camps

Tools & tech

74
cv.yaml

Languages

2
TR · EN B2

State timeline

Özgür Yazılım A.Ş.
Linux System Administrator
Ege University
Part-Time Technical Staff
Ankara University
Management Information Systems (Distance Education)
Ege University
Computer Programming
20202021202220232024202520262027

Experience — logs

2022-06startLinux System Administrator @ Özgür Yazılım A.Ş. (Remote)
2022-06infoDesigned, deployed and managed highly available and scalable Kubernetes (RKE2, OpenShift, Talos Linux) cluster architectures; deployed and operated services such as GitLab, Jenkins, SonarQube, Nexus, Keycloak, Rocket.Chat, Jitsi, Nextcloud and OpenSearch on Rancher, and configured Longhorn backups.
2022-06infoInstalled, maintained and optimized Red Hat and Debian based Linux servers for clients across various industries and scales.
2022-06infoImplemented server security, user authorization and system update policies; set up intrusion detection with Wazuh and OSSEC and vulnerability scanning with Nessus, and defined server hardening and firewall standards.
2022-06infoDeployed Keycloak in high availability and integrated SSO with GitLab, Zabbix, Nextcloud and Rocket.Chat; provided centralized identity management with OpenLDAP.
2022-06infoBuilt a HashiCorp Vault cluster backed by Consul; implemented secret injection into Kubernetes pods with Vault Agent and the Zabbix–Vault integration.
2022-06infoDesigned and managed virtualization platforms based on KVM/QEMU, VMware and Proxmox, including resource planning and high-availability configurations.
2022-06infoProvided load balancing and high availability with Keepalived + HAProxy clusters and Envoy proxy.
2022-06infoAutomated maintenance, monitoring and deployment processes with Bash and Python, and built custom tools to reduce manual operations.
2022-06infoBuilt fully automated CI/CD pipelines integrating Jenkins, SonarQube and Nexus, using Jenkins Configuration as Code and containerized jobs, and added code quality and security analysis with Fortify SCA and Dependency-Track.
2022-06infoSet up PostgreSQL automatic failover with Patroni and Consul and disaster recovery with repmgr and Barman; managed Valkey Sentinel, Redis Cluster and MongoDB replica sets, and ran backup and migration work for databases including MySQL.
2022-06infoMigrated from Elasticsearch to OpenSearch with cross-cluster replication (CCR) for disaster recovery; upgraded Graylog clusters from 2.x to 7.x and built log collection with Logstash, Nxlog and Graylog Sidecar.
2022-06infoDeployed and managed Kafka and RabbitMQ clusters, and built a disaster recovery setup for Kafka based on cross-cluster replication with MirrorMaker.
2022-06infoInstalled and maintained management and monitoring tools such as Zabbix, Graylog/Rsyslog, Bacula and GitLab.
2021-11startPart-Time Technical Staff @ Ege University (İzmir)
2021-11infoDiagnosed and repaired computer hardware and software issues and provided end-user technical support.
2021-11infoInstalled and configured network devices (routers, switches, access points, firewalls) and built and maintained LAN infrastructure.
2021-11infoInstalled and managed Windows Server 2012 R2 and 2016 environments, thin client and terminal systems.

Personal infrastructure (homelab)

Infrastructure I built from scratch and keep evolving on a single Proxmox VE host to run my own services. This site runs on it too.

  • UP3-node RKE2 Kubernetes cluster on Proxmox VE 9, with kube-vip API VIP, Longhorn distributed storage and Traefik ingress.
  • UPSNI-based routing with HAProxy; automatic certificates with cert-manager and Let's Encrypt DNS-01.
  • UPSelf-hosted mail server with Stalwart (SPF, DKIM, DMARC, reverse DNS) and webmail.
  • UPMetrics with VictoriaMetrics, node-exporter and Grafana; monitoring and alerts with Uptime Kuma and ntfy; image update tracking with Diun.
  • UPLocal LLM server with llama.cpp and Open WebUI; Python automation that summarizes daily system reports.
  • UPDNS-over-TLS with AdGuard Home and encrypted backups with restic.

Skills

GroupTools
LinuxDebian, Red Hat / Rocky, Ubuntu, openSUSE, Arch, systemd, SELinux, firewalld
ContainersDocker, Kubernetes, RKE2, OpenShift, Rancher, Talos, k3s, kubeadm, Helm, Longhorn
VirtualizationKVM/QEMU, Proxmox VE, VMware, VirtualBox
Automation & CI/CDBash, Python, Ansible, Jenkins, GitLab, SonarQube, Nexus, Dependency-Track
Monitoring & loggingZabbix, Grafana, Graylog, Rsyslog, VictoriaMetrics, Logstash, Kibana, OpenSearch Dashboards, Nagios XI, Sentry
Identity & securityKeycloak, HashiCorp Vault, OpenLDAP, Wazuh, OSSEC, Nessus
DatabasesPostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Patroni, repmgr
Search, cache & messagingOpenSearch, Elasticsearch, Redis, Valkey, RabbitMQ, Kafka
Web & application serversApache, Nginx, PHP-FPM, Tomcat, WildFly
Backup & storageBacula, Barman, MinIO
NetworkingTCP/IP, DNS, PowerDNS, HAProxy, Keepalived, Envoy, WireGuard, OpenVPN, Let's Encrypt

Teaching

Özgür Yazılım A.Ş.

  • Linux System Administration 101-102-103-104
  • Kubernetes 101
  • Jenkins Workshop
  • Ansible Workshop

Mustafa Akgül Free Software Camps 2023 – 2025

  • Log Management and Analysis with Graylog
  • GNU/Linux System Administration (Level 1)
  • Server and Service Monitoring with Zabbix
  • Kubernetes and Container Technologies

Education · languages

Management Information Systems (Distance Education)

Ankara University · 2024 – Present

Computer Programming

Ege University · 2020 – 2022
  • Turkish — native
  • English — B2
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