Petr Kalmukhyan
Senior DevOps Engineer | AWS & Kubernetes
Salary / Daily rate
Yerevan, Armenia
Freelance, open to permanent contract
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About me
Intro
DevOps Engineer with 7+ years specializing in AWS cloud architecture and Kubernetes orchestration. 3x AWS certified with proven expertise in Terraform IaC, CI/CD pipelines, and EKS migrations. I deliver scalable cloud solutions and automate infrastructure to accelerate your deployment cycles and reduce operational costs.
Work experience
Senior DevOps Engineer
TSS Paratransit
Feb 2023 - Present
3 years 9 months
Yerevan, Armenia · Hybrid
- Architecting and implementing public cloud (AWS) infrastructure using IaaC (Terraform) - CI/CD (Bamboo, Bitbucket) implementation and continuous improvement - Migrate current solution to Kubernetes Skills: Bamboo · Bitbucket · Jira · Terraform · Amazon Web Services · Kubernetes · Amazon EKS · Amazon VPC · Amazon Application and Network Load Balancers · AWS Lambda · AWS API Gateway · AWS S3 · Amazon RDS · VMware · Linux · Bash
Container Orchestration Consultant
Intelligent Digital Technologies
Nov 2022 - Mar 2023
5 months
Yerevan, Armenia
- Implemented EKS using Terraform using IAM roles for service accounts to access AWS resources - Implemented egress Internet access for EKS via permanent public IP - Implemented on-premises Kubernetes using: - Vanilla Kubernetes 1.24 as orchestration solution - Oracle Linux 9 as Linux distro - HA Proxy as a load-balancer and API Gateway - Implemented Hashicorp Nomand POC
Senior SRE
IPONWEB
Aug 2022 - Oct 2022
3 months
Yerevan, Armenia
- Used Terraform to implement multiple Google Artifact Registry Docker repos - Used Terraform to create service accounts for appropriate projects in GCP - Configured GitLab to use new GAR repos
Lead Systems Engineer
EPAM Systems
Dec 2021 - Jul 2022
8 months
Yerevan, Armenia
- Created 3 Azure Devops pipeline to build Docker images for new servers - Deployed 3 service to EKS using Helm and ArgoCD - Performed backup, restore and other maintenance for StardogDB - Assisted teammates to get familiar with AWS services - Assisted junior DevOps coleague
Applebrie
Oct 2019 - Dec 2021
2 years 3 months
Yerevan, Armenia
Head Of Information Technology Department
Jun 2020 - Dec 2021
1 year 7 months
Yerevan, Armenia
- Moving current ECS deployments to Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service - Design and implement cloud (AWS) infrastructure for new projects - Implementing IaaC approach (Terraform, Git) - CI/CD implementation(Jenkins) - Routine task automation(Python) - Migration IT infrastructure from other Cloud Providers to AWS(Azure, GCC) - Legacy IT infrastructure migration - Coaching junior IT stuff - Other DevOps and Senior System Administrator tasks as necessary
Senior System Administrator
Oct 2019 - Jul 2020
10 months
Armenia, Quindio, Colombia
• Linux and Windows systems administration • Implementing cloud(AWS) based DevOps best practices, like CI/CD(Jenkins) a Infrastructure As A Code(CloudFormation), containers(Docker,Fargate), task automation(Ansible)
Senior System Administrator
VivaCell-MTS (Armenian subsidiary of MTS Group)
Dec 2017 - Oct 2019
1 year 11 months
Armenia, Quindio, Colombia
• Unix(Solaris) and Linux systems administration • VMware(5.x, 6.x) administration • Storage (EMC, Hitachi) and server hardware(Sun/Oracle, HP, Huawei) administration IT Projects • Docker based dev environment implementation • vCloud Director implementation • Huawei E9000 blade system implementation, including virtualization (VMware vSphere 6.7) and storage (EMC Unity 550F)
Senior System Administrator
Self-Employed IT Consultant
Sep 2016 - Dec 2017
1 year 4 months
Skills: Storage Virtualization · SQL · System Administration · Linux System Administration · Virtualization · Shell Scripting · Data Centers
Head of Corporate IT
BetConstruct
Jun 2014 - Oct 2016
2 years 5 months
On-site
- Managing team of 6 specialists - Build and maintain Corporate Datacenter, including but not limited servers, storage, network, power and cooling - Upgrade and extend Corporate Network - Implement best security practices for Corporate IT infrastructure
Education
State Engineering University of Armenia
Master's degree
2001 - 2003
2 years 1 month
State Engineering University of Armenia
Bachelor
1997 - 2001
4 years 1 month