Violeta Iskandaryan
Verified Expert in Engineering
Devops and SRE Developer
Los Angeles, CA, United States
Toptal member since July 29, 2022
Violeta has considerable experience in infrastructure and service management and an extensive understanding of high-availability architecture and concepts. Detail-oriented, flexible, and a team worker, she is highly motivated and eager to learn more about new areas in DevOps. Violeta is looking for new, challenging roles to grow professionally.
Portfolio
Experience
- Bash - 5 years
- Terraform - 5 years
- CI/CD Pipelines - 4 years
- Docker - 3 years
- Ansible - 3 years
- Jenkins - 2 years
- Packer - 2 years
Preferred Environment
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Terraform, Docker, Packer, Bash, Python, Jenkins, CI/CD Pipelines, Ansible, Kubernetes
The most amazing...
...thing I've done is maintain the availability of and develop new features for a monitoring solution used by thousands of clients.
Work Experience
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
DISQO
- Pioneered MCP Server Integration for AI-Assisted SRE Operations.
- Automated the full incident response lifecycle by integrating alerting, communication, AI-powered meeting transcription, and artifact collection into an end-to-end pipeline.
- Designed, documented, and implemented a GitOps Modernization Strategy for ArgoCD.
- Designed and implemented a secure, cross-account Terraform CI/CD pipeline from scratch, featuring MR-based approvals, unified IAM execution, and coverage across the full infrastructure codebase.
- Led a company-wide EKS cluster upgrade across production clusters.
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Lucid
- Executed Istio service mesh upgrade across multiple Kubernetes clusters, improving traffic management, security, and observability with zero downtime for critical microservices.
- Developed and maintained Terraform modules to automate infrastructure provisioning, reducing manual errors and accelerating deployment cycles.
- Improved service discovery and cross-service communication by fine-tuning DNS policies and service mesh configurations, resulting in faster resolution times and increased system reliability.
DevOps and SRE Engineer
VMware
- Maintained the high availability and resiliency of vRealize Operations (vROps), a SaaS monitoring solution.
- Used Agile practices to deliver new features for a monitoring solution.
- Deployed and monitored AWS infrastructure components.
- Improved security and implemented new vROps measures.
- Developed pipelines and automated deployment using Jenkins Pipeline.
Cloud Engineer
Dom-Daniel
- Offered cloud solutions for clients hosting their applications on Azure.
- Automated infrastructure deployment through pipelines and infrastructure as code (IaC).
- Collaborated with team members to deliver highly available architectures.
Back-end Developer | Intern
Focusoft
- Mastered the fundamentals of back-end web development.
- Applied techniques for maintaining a well-structured database.
- Used Yii 2 PHP framework to build web applications.
Experience
Continuous Availabilty Migration
AWS User Group Presentation
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/aws-user-group-armenia_amazon-awsugarm-awsusergroups-activity-7171503755312484354-O3gC?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktopI delved into key services such as AWS CodePipeline for continuous integration and delivery, AWS CodeBuild for building and testing code, and AWS CodeDeploy for automated application deployments. I also highlighted how AWS CloudFormation simplifies infrastructure management with infrastructure-as-code. By showcasing best practices and real-world use cases, this session provided valuable insights into leveraging AWS DevOps tools to optimize workflows, increase productivity, and ensure reliable, scalable application deployments.
Education
Master's Degree in Machine Learning
IU International University of Applied Sciences - Bad Honnef, Germany
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
American University of Armenia - Yerevan, Armenia
Certifications
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
Amazon Web Services
Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert
Microsoft
Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
Microsoft
Skills
Libraries/APIs
REST APIs, Jenkins Pipeline, AWS Amplify, Terragrunt
Tools
Terraform, Ansible, Git, Helm, AWS Key Management Service (KMS), Amazon EKS, Amazon CloudWatch, NGINX, Amazon CloudFront, Packer, Jenkins, Postman, AWS IAM, GitLab CI/CD, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), GitHub, Docker Swarm, Grafana, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Celery, Amazon SageMaker, AWS Step Functions, AWS Fargate, GitLab, VPN, AWS CodeBuild, AWS Deployment, Sentry, AWS CloudFormation, Istio, AWS Glue
Languages
Python, Bash, SQL, PHP, JavaScript, Java, C++
Paradigms
DevOps, Microservices, Automation, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), REST, Event-driven Architecture, Azure DevOps, Microservices Architecture, Agile, HIPAA Compliance
Platforms
Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Linux, Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda, AWS ALB, Azure, Rancher, New Relic
Storage
Amazon S3 (AWS S3), MySQL, Redis, PostgreSQL, Amazon Aurora, Redis Cache, Datadog, NoSQL, MongoDB, Amazon DynamoDB
Frameworks
AWS HA, Serverless Framework, Yii 2, Django
Other
CI/CD Pipelines, Architecture, Load Balancers, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Amazon RDS, AWS CodePipeline, AWS DevOps, APIs, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Prometheus, ECS, Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), System Architecture, RESTFul APIs, Cloud Infrastructure, API Platforms, Containers, API Gateways, Cloud Architecture, YAML Pipelines, Infrastructure, Cloud Computing, Artificial Intelligence (AI), GitHub Actions, Identity & Access Management (IAM), AWS VPN, AWS App Runner, FastAPI, Security, Serverless, Monitoring, AWS ECS Fargate, AWS X-Ray, Argo Workflows, IT Security, Orchestration, Distributed Architecture, IT Infrastructure, Networking, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Autonomous Navigation, Statistics, AWS Auto Scaling, Machine Learning Operations (MLOps), AWS Monitoring, Data Visualization, Service Meshes, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Dynamic Load Balancing
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