Senior DevOps Engineer | Kubernetes Platform Engineering | GitOps & Cloud Infrastructure

Senior DevOps Engineer with 5+ years owning on-prem Kubernetes platforms in regulated, air-gapped environments. I specialize in lifecycle management, reliability, and security standards for large-scale clusters, GitOps delivery strategy, and hands-on AWS/EKS support for production workloads.

📍 Yerevan, Armenia | ✉️ djawad.dev@gmail.com | 💼 LinkedIn

July 2022 - Present | Remote (Yerevan, Armenia)

• 🎯 Defined lifecycle standards for 200+ node on-prem Kubernetes in regulated financial workloads
• 🚀 Enabled zero-downtime releases via GitOps with ArgoCD and Argo Rollouts using Prometheus-driven automated rollback
• ☁️ Delivered secondary AWS/EKS production support (EC2, RDS, S3, ALB/NLB, VPC, IAM, Route 53, WAF) achieving 99.9% uptime
• 🔒 Shifted vulnerability scanning to out-of-cluster Trivy pipeline and hardened clusters with CIS/NSA Kubernetes guidance
• 📊 Reduced MTTR by 35% through Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, and ELK observability stack
• 💾 Achieved sub-10-minute RTO for disaster recovery through automated etcd backups
• 💰 Optimized cloud spend by 25% through automation and right-sizing

March 2021 - July 2022 | Tehran, Iran

• 📦 Cut deployment failures by 40% by codifying Helm-based CI/CD standards
• 🔧 Reduced incident frequency by ~25% after stabilizing Kubernetes HA payment systems
• ⚡ Cut release time from hours to under 30 minutes through standardized workflows
• 🔄 Defined migration plan from Azure DevOps to GitLab CI with reusable Helm templates

Community-driven Ansible tool for deploying production Kubernetes clusters

• Improved cluster reliability in air-gapped and multi-network environments
• Fixed CNI compatibility issues and refactored etcd configuration for stable peer communication
• Contributions: PR #11704, PR #11725

B.Sc. Computer Software Engineering
University of Shahrekord, Iran | 2018 - 2022