Senior System Engineer at iyzico
Istanbul
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Jul 23, 2026
Istanbul
Jul 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior infrastructure role focused on designing, deploying, and maintaining Linux and cloud-based systems for a fintech payment platform. Day-to-day work spans infrastructure-as-code with Terraform and Ansible, CI/CD pipeline management, storage and disaster recovery, container orchestration, and security hardening. Suits an experienced systems or infrastructure engineer with at least five years of hands-on background across Linux administration, public cloud, and observability tooling.
Senior level · 5+ years · Istanbul, Turkey · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $101,310 (middle half $79,725–$129,425).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (5)
This role is based in Istanbul, Turkey (Altunizade office); US labor market benchmarks do not apply.
The SOC classification is a genuine judgment call: the role spans both infrastructure operations (system administration, storage, backup/DR, patch management — pointing to 15-1244) and infrastructure-as-code/automation/CI-CD pipeline work (Terraform, Ansible, deployment pipelines — pointing to 15-1252). The primary framing ('System Engineer / Systems Administrator / Infrastructure Engineer') and the operational responsibilities (24/7 availability, patch management, CVE tracking, storage lifecycle) tip the balance toward 15-1244, but the automation and pipeline duties are substantial.
The observability/logging stack (Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix, Elasticsearch, Splunk) and messaging systems (RabbitMQ, Kafka) are listed together under the required qualifications with 'familiarity with' language, which is softer than the other required items; however, they appear in the main Qualifications block rather than the Nice to Have section, so they are treated as required.
AI agentic architectures, LLM deployment infrastructure, Nginx/HAProxy, Redis, and Git/GitLab are all listed under the explicit 'Nice to Have' section.
No compensation figures are disclosed in the posting.
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