Karen Danielyan
Senior Platform Engineer, Cloud Architect
Phone/WhatsApp:
+374 55 459594
Email:
[email protected]
Senior Platform Engineer and Cloud Architect with over 17 years of experience in software development, systems engineering, and cloud infrastructure.
Proficient in the full Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and experienced with Agile methodologies such as Scrum.
Proven track record of designing and implementing scalable, reliable, and cost-effective platforms.
Strong expertise in cloud-native technologies, infrastructure as code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, and systems automation.
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 Platform Engineer, Cloud 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