Karen Danielyan
Senior DevOps, Solution Architect
Phone/WhatsApp:
+374 55 459594
Email:
[email protected]
Systems/DevOps Engineer with over 17 years of experience in software development and
systems/cloud architecture.
Proficient in the full Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and adept at
Agile methodologies such as Scrum.
Demonstrated success managing cross-functional teams in both Systems
Administration and Software Engineering projects, consistently delivering scalable, efficient, and
cost-effective solutions.
Education and Certification
GitOps Certified (Fundamentals)
March 2022
CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator
March 2019
Cisco Networking Academy
CCNA Routing and Switching
Sep 2015 - May 2016
Armenian State University of Economics
Department of Regulation of Economy and International Economic Relations.
Bachelor of Economics
Sep 2008 - May 2013
Yerevan State College of Informatics
Automated Systems Administration and Programming.
Sep 2002 - May 2006
Experience
Senior DevOps, Solution Architect
Verve Group
- Development CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and IaC with Terraform.
- Deployment applications on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and containerized applications on Kubernetes using Helm.
- Implementation of GitOps with ArgoCD.
- Deployment of Security scanners.
- Deployment and support Prometheus, Grafana, and Elastic Stack for monitoring.
May 2022 - Jan 2025
Senior Principal Engineer (SRE / DevOps)
Oracle
- Design and implement solutions for Software Development Life Cycle such as Branching Strategy, Versioning Strategy and CI/CD pipelines.
- Design and development IaC based on Terraform.
- Applications deployment in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
- Ansible Roles development.
- Setup and support Local Ansible Galaxy.
- Carried out SOC 2 audit (System and Organization Controls).
Nov 2020 - May 2022
Senior DevOps
DataArt
- Design and develop solutions that cater to platform enhancements in the areas of infrastructure and development.
- Design and implement solutions for Software Development Life Cycle such as CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as a code, Configuration Management, etc.
- Solutions were based on Gitlab-CI, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Azure, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, Artifactory, Sonarqube, and Veracode for Java(Maven, Gradle, Ant), DotNet, GoLang, and Python applications.
- Elastic Stack deployment.
Nov 2020 - present (Part-time)
Jun 2019 - Nov 2020 (Full-time)
DevOps/Systems Engineer
EPAM Systems
- CI/CD Pipeline implementation based on Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Nexus, Ansible and Sonarqube.
- Deployment and support Local Ansible Galaxy. Preparation of Ansible roles for deploying microservices.
Dec 2018 - Jun 2019
DevOps Engineer
Webb Fontaine Holding
- Implementing and developing solutions enabling the Development team to build, deploy, monitor, and test applications and environments.
- Implemented CI/CD pipelines based on TeamCity, Docker, and Ansible.
Nov 2017 - Dec 2018
Senior Systems Engineer
- Data Center Design and Implementation using redundancy of critical resources, consolidation of storage, flexibility, and scalability features.
- Design and implement virtualization environments based on VMware vSphere Cluster and VCenter Server.
- Implementation of a Disaster Recovery Datacenter for Replication and Backup.
Dec 2015 - Nov 2017
IT Team Leader
Ministry of Economy of RA
- Champion best practices, drive process enhancements, and ensure reliable, secure, and scalable IT solutions are delivered.
- Establish and implement server and client security strategy, and establish and maintain the network, server policies, standards, and guidelines.
- Design and implementation of Ministry Backup and Disaster Recovery Strategy.
Dec 2012 - Dec 2015
Systems and Network Administrator
- Configuration of corporate network devices (Cisco Routers, Switches, and Firewalls).
- Develop and support Ministries web pages and another local web-based projects.
- Responsible for overall Servers performance, establish disaster recovery strategy and documentation for all servers including AD, Exchange Server, VoIP Servers etc.
Aug 2009 - Dec 2012
Systems / Infrastructure Engineer
Globbing Armenia
Mar 2015 - Feb 2016 (Part-time)
Systems Administrator
Industrial Development Foundation
Apr 2013 - Mar 2015 (Part-time)
IT Support Engineer
ARAY LLC
Sep 2006 - Aug 2009
Skills
Deployment and Operations
- Cloud Computing: Google Cloud, Amazon AWS, Oracle Cloud, Azure;
- Containers and Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, HELM, Rancher;
- IaC and Configuration management: Terraform, Ansible;
- CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Gitlab-CI, Jenkins and Azure DevOps;
- Observability: Prometheus Stack, Grafana, Site24x7, Elastic Stack, Graylog;
- Linux: RedHat, OracleLinux, Debian, Ubuntu etc.;
- Microsoft Servers: Windows 2012 / 2016, Exchange 2013 / 2016;
- Virtualization: VMware vSphere Cluster, ESXI, VCenter Server;
- Atlassian`s products: Jira, Bitbucket and Confluence (Installation and configuration);
- Access Management: Active Directory, Kaycloak(SSO), LDAP;
- Backup and disaster recovery: Velero, Veeam Backup & Replication, BorgBackup;
Network
- Working experience with Cisco Routers, Switches, and Firewalls;
- Knowledge of Cisco IOS and MikroTik RouterOS;
- Configuring LAN, WAN and Wireless equipment;
- Knowledge of Dynamic routing protocols - EIGRP, OSPF and RIP;
- Design and configure VLANs.
Security
- Knowledge of ISO Information Security Standards and Risk management;
- Knowledge of pen-testing tools such as OpenVAS, Shodan, Acunetix, etc.;
- Creating Security policy documents according to ISO 27002;
- Audit environment and creating risk assessment documents;
- Configuring Servers according to Security policy (ISO 27002).
Scripting and Programming
Languages
- English
- Russian
- Armenian