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Ashot Arushanyan

Senior SRE/DevOps Engineer

arushanyanash@gmail.com ashot.scenar.site github.com/fock1e linkedin

Yerevan, Armenia open to remote

timeline

Independent DevOps Engineer · contract

Nov 2025 – present · remote

Zero-downtime credential rotation (Vault, Gardener-managed Kubernetes) for a FIPS 140-3 GovCloud platform; autoscaling GitHub Actions runner fleets on EC2 spot; a 20+ domain Cloudflare migration with zero-downtime cutovers — all Terraform-managed.

Senior DevOps Engineer · MaxDuel

Jan 2025 – present · remote

Built the GCP footprint from scratch in Terraform — 10+ environments, new-environment provisioning under 15 minutes; GKE behind 200+ microservices with ArgoCD GitOps; observability stack that cut MTTD from 25 minutes to under 3.

Senior Site Reliability Engineer · Metric Gaming

Sep 2023 – Jan 2025 · remote

Ran 50+ microservices across 8 EKS clusters at 99.9% uptime (99.95% on payments); Karpenter rollout cut infrastructure cost 40–60% (~$120K/yr); SOC 2 / PCI-DSS audit prep down from two weeks to two days.

Infrastructure Engineer · SADA, An Insight Company

May 2021 – Aug 2023 · Yerevan, Armenia

Built 5+ GCP landing zones from scratch (org hierarchy, VPC, IAM, guardrails) and migrated 400+ VMs from on-prem into Terraform-managed GCP, cutting operational overhead ~70%.

projects

scenar.io · creator (scenar.site)

AI-powered SRE/DevOps interview practice — designed, built, and operated solo: TypeScript, Svelte 5, Claude API, Fly.io, 240+ tests.

stack

cloud
AWS (EKS, RDS, MSK, IAM) · GCP (GKE, Cloud SQL, BigQuery, Cloud Run)
containers
Kubernetes · Docker · Helm · Karpenter · Istio
iac
Terraform (modules, workspaces, state mgmt) · CloudFormation
ci/cd
GitHub Actions · ArgoCD · Jenkins · GitLab CI
observability
Grafana · Prometheus · Loki · Tempo · DataDog
languages
Python · Bash
security/net
Vault · Trivy · Cloudflare (WAF, LB, Zero Trust) · VPC · DNS · mTLS
practices
SRE · FinOps · incident management · RFC-driven architecture

certifications & education