Senior Platform Engineer (100% Remote within Türkiye)

The role

You will own the infrastructure for Turkish products by running production Kubernetes workloads on AWS. You will lead the migration of relational databases from RDS to EKS and ensure platform compliance with Ministry of Health requirements.

What you will do

• Run the Kubernetes platform including node lifecycle, upgrades, autoscaling, and networking
• Lead the migration of relational databases from RDS to databases on EKS
• Own the platform's compliance evidence for data residency, encryption, and Ministry audits
• Keep PHP, .NET and Node.js workloads highly available
• Own delivery through GitOps using Argo CD
• Design and debug networking including ingress and cross-cluster communication
• Build observability with Datadog
• Operate migrated databases including failover, upgrades, and incident response
• Automate with infrastructure as code

Required qualifications

• 5+ years operating production infrastructure
• Kubernetes inside out, running stateless and stateful workloads in production
• Has run at least one real Kubernetes operator in production
• AWS in depth: EKS, networking, storage, identity, multi-AZ design and cost awareness or similar cloud experience
• Scaling and high availability: workload and cluster autoscaling (KEDA, Karpenter or similar)
• GitOps (Argo CD, flux) and deployment strategies
• Networking: services, ingress, network policies, cross-cluster communication
• Observability (Datadog, Prometheus and Grafana): SLOs, actionable alerts, application and database monitoring
• Security in practice: encryption in transit and at rest, secrets management, privileged access to clusters and databases
• Comfortable with relational databases as the person who runs the platform under them
• Daily use of AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code or similar)
• Professional English (B2+) and native Turkish

Nice to have

• Has run relational databases on Kubernetes through an operator, and has migrated databases between platforms
• Disaster recovery design: RPO and RTO, backup verification, restore drills
• Supplied infrastructure evidence in an ISO 27001, SOC 2 or health-sector audit
• Experience with data residency constraints and AWS Local Zones
• Telehealth media infrastructure: WebRTC, TURN and SFU scaling
• Prior contact with Turkish regulators or Ministry systems

Benefits

• Private health insurance
• Access to the ifeel emotional well-being tool
• Free birthday leave
• Work remotely
• 3 days of motivation leave every year

About the company

Docplanner is a leader in 13 countries with over 2,500 employees globally. They provide technology for healthcare professionals and patients, including the DoktorTakvimi brand in Türkiye.