×
Aram Sukiasyan

Aram Sukiasyan

Senior DevOps Engineer

Berlin, DE
Armenian, English, Russian, German

Background


About

About

Senior DevOps Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience enhancing the reliability and efficiency of mission-critical deployments using automation, configuration management, and CI/CD practices, backed by over 15 years of progressive experience in the IT sector

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Senior DevOps Engineer

    Sep, 2021 - Present

    Responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing the infrastructure, automation, and delivery pipelines that enable reliable and scalable software deployment.

    • Optimization and improvement of eBike infrastructure running on AWS.

    • Upgrade, maintenance and improvement of existing Kubernetes clusters, redesign based on best practices.

    • Design and modernization of current CI/CD.

    • Design and implementation of custom IAC modules, scripts and pipelines.

    • Optimization and continuous improvement of monitoring, logging, alerting and tracing.

  • DevOps / Platform Engineer

    Apr, 2019 - Sep, 20212 years 5 months

    Being part of Platform team, I am building and maintaining full infrastructure for about 15 Development teams

    • Management of Cloud infrastructure based on AWS

    • Deployment and maintenance of multiple k8s clusters

    • Implementation and maintenance of monitoring systems with Prometheus AlertManager and Grafana

    • Automation and management of infrastructure with Terraform and Ansible

    • Setup and operation of GitLab as repository and CI/CD service for 100+ users

    • used technologies - AWS (IAM, EC2, S3, Transit Gateway, NLB, ALB, RDS, CloudFront, Workspaces), Azure AD, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Terraform, Ansible, RabbitMQ, Redis, PostgreSQL, Python, GitLab, dex, Prometheus (Operator), Alertmanager, Grafana, ELK, Nginx, Confluence, Jira, Bitbucket, Jenkins

  • SiteOps Engineer

    Sep, 2018 - Dec, 20184 months

    Maintenance of complete WebShop with all his components

    • Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability.

    • Optimisation of infrastructure and automation of processes.

    • Collaboration with Developers for implementation of releases of webshop.

    • Installation and management of containerized applications on local cluser.

    • Support and troubleshoot Debian based operation systems as well as support of applications like Tomcat, Varnish, Apache, Nginx, VMWare.

    • used technologies - Kubernetes, Docker, Nginx, Tomcat, Redis, Varnish, Apache, Nginx, VMWare, Confluence, Jira, Bamboo

  • DevOps Engineer

    Jun, 2017 - Aug, 20181 year 3 months

    • Administration of Linux based infrastructure (Ubuntu, RedHat, Suse Linux).

    • Administration and optimisiation of components, server instances and software systems (Tomcat, Apache, Nginx, Atlassians Wiki, OTRS).

    • Development and extension of monitoring systems (Nagios, Grafana, Prometheus, etc.).

    • Evaluation of new technologies and their usage in existing customer environments

    • Optimisation of infrastructure and automation of processes.

    • Management of company IT Infrastructure e.g. Network, DC, Email, etc..

    • used technologies - Kubernetes, Docker, Nagios, Grafana, Prometheus, Alertmanager Nginx, Tomcat, Apache, Atlassians Wiki, OTRS

  • IPTV/OTT/Systems Engineer

    Mar, 2016 - May, 20171 year 3 months

    • Troubleshooting, maintenance and enhancement of the IPTV production. Responsible of OTT/mobile_IPTV

    • Administering Red Hat based and SUSE Linux operaang systems

    • Responsible of OTT infrastructure included streaming, VOD, Catchup and other servers

    • Collaboraaon with developers to implement changes on test, and production servers.

    • Building and installation of multiple custom (kernel) and general Linux servers.

    • used technologies - Ansible, Prometheus, Grafan, Xymon, Syslog-ng, DHCP, NGINX, Apache etc.

  • IT Systems Support Engineer

    Apr, 2011 - Feb, 20164 years 10 months

    • Support of internal users of the company with IT related tasks.

    • Company Active Directory management/support

    • Support users of Unix/Linux Systems Administration tasks.

    • Administering of Linux based applications like Nagios, Apache, MediaWiki, SAMBA etc.

    • BMonitoring and maintaining computer systems and networks

    • used technologies - Microsoft AD, Microsoft Exchange, FS, PS, Nagios, Apache, MediaWiki, SAMBA

Skills

Skills

  • Red Hat/Debian based OS's

    CentOS

    Fedora

    Debian

    Ubuntu

  • Kubernetes

    nginx-ingress

    kubespray

    Calico

  • Helm

    helm@2

    helm@3

  • AWS

    IAM

    EC2

    Route53

    S3

  • Terraform

    Terraform modules

  • Ansible

    Ansible roles

    async-jobs

  • CI/CD

    GitLab CI

    Jenkins

  • Python

    requests

    confuse

    argparse

    logging

    gitlab

    tkinter

Education

Education

  • Radio Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Armenian State Engineering University

    Sep, 2003 - Aug, 2007

Interests

Interests

  • Woodworking

  • Aquascaping

  • Chess

  • Boxing