Senior DevOps Engineer
AppNation seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer in Turkey to own the Google Cloud infrastructure behind its AI-powered mobile apps: building Terraform IaC, CI/CD pipelines, containerized workloads on GKE/Cloud Run, plus observability, security, incident response, and cloud cost optimization.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Turkey
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Devops
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Platform Engineering with hands-on ownership of production systems
- Strong production experience with Google Cloud Platform (compute, networking, IAM, storage, managed databases)
- Proven experience building and maintaining infrastructure as code using Terraform
- Hands-on experience with Docker and running containerized applications on GKE, Cloud Run, or both
- Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Cloud Build
- Strong Linux and networking fundamentals (DNS, HTTP/TLS, load balancing, VPCs, firewall configuration)
- Experience building monitoring, logging, and alerting with Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Prometheus, Grafana, or equivalent
- Proficiency in Python, Bash, or a similar language for infrastructure automation
- Track record of troubleshooting production incidents and improving reliability, security, and cloud cost efficiency
- Strong ownership, clear communication, and collaboration in a fast-moving product environment
Nice to have
- Experience supporting high-traffic consumer products, mobile backends, or AI-powered applications
- Familiarity with GCP services such as Cloud SQL, Memorystore, Pub/Sub, and Secret Manager
- Experience with Kubernetes tooling and GitOps workflows, such as Helm and Argo CD
- Experience operating AI inference workloads or optimizing infrastructure for latency-sensitive services
- Experience implementing disaster recovery strategies and validating them through recovery exercises
Full description
About AppNation
We build AI-powered mobile apps that reach millions of users worldwide.
Since 2021, AppNation has been creating products across AI, productivity, and mobile experiences. Our apps, including Genie, Translate AI, and Arch, have reached 90M+ users globally and ranked among the top apps in 30+ countries.
We are a team of builders, designers, and engineers who move fast, take ownership, and create products used by millions.
About the Role
We're looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to own and evolve the cloud infrastructure behind our AI-powered mobile apps. You'll work closely with our engineering teams to build reliable, secure, and cost-efficient systems on Google Cloud Platform, improve how we ship software, and support products used by millions of people worldwide.
This is a hands-on role with ownership across infrastructure, automation, observability, and production reliability, with the opportunity to shape our infrastructure roadmap and engineering practices.
What You'll Do
- Design, operate, and scale infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform to support our mobile apps, backend services, and AI-powered features.
- Build and maintain infrastructure as code with Terraform, keeping development, staging, and production environments consistent and reproducible.
- Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines, enabling fast, reliable deployments with automated checks and safe rollback strategies.
- Deploy and manage containerized workloads, improving availability, autoscaling, and resource utilization.
- Strengthen observability through metrics, logs, tracing, and actionable alerts; define and track service reliability targets.
- Lead production incident investigation, document root causes, and implement improvements that prevent recurring issues.
- Improve cloud security through least-privilege access, secrets management, network controls, and vulnerability remediation.
- Optimize cloud spending and performance through capacity planning, right-sizing, and workload-level cost analysis.
- Partner with engineers to remove delivery bottlenecks, automate repetitive operations, and maintain tested backup and recovery procedures.
What We're Looking For
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Platform Engineering, with hands-on ownership of production systems.
- Strong production experience with Google Cloud Platform, including compute, networking, IAM, storage, and managed database services.
- Proven experience building and maintaining infrastructure as code using Terraform.