DevOps engineer with more than 5 years of experience. CI/CD, Cloud, Kubernetes, Observability.

Gor Varosyan

DevOps engineer with more than 5 years of experience. CI/CD, Cloud, Kubernetes, Observability.

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DevOps engineer with more than 5 years of experience. CI/CD, Cloud, Kubernetes, Observability.

Experience Level

Expert
Expert
Expert
Expert
Expert
Intermediate
Intermediate
Intermediate

Language

English
Fluent
Russian
Fluent
Armenian
Fluent

Work Experience

DevOps Engineer (Release Engineering) at Pluto TV / Paramount
August 1, 2020 - May 31, 2022
Owned CI/CD in Jenkins for multi-environment Kubernetes deployments, including release orchestration, approvals, and rollbacks. Migrated 30+ universal pipelines from Harness to Jenkins (Groovy, DSL) for 250+ services, implementing config-driven universal pipelines and achieving significant cost savings.
DevOps Engineer at Pluto TV / Paramount
May 1, 2022 - May 31, 2023
Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines in GitLab and Jenkins; migrated Kubernetes on-prem clusters to AWS EKS; managed AWS infrastructure (EC2, EKS, S3) using Terraform; maintained security and access controls; supported on-call rotations.
DevOps Engineer at Pluto TV / Paramount
May 1, 2023 - December 31, 2023
Migrated Kubernetes on-prem clusters to AWS EKS, provisioned infrastructure with Terraform, and extended IaC-driven changes for infra provisioning and pipeline automation; managed AWS resources and IAM roles for secure deployments; contributed to security/compliance efforts.
DevOps Engineer at Pluto TV / Paramount
November 1, 2023 - Present
Owned CD in Jenkins for multi-environment Kubernetes deployments; release orchestration, approvals, and rollbacks; migrated 30+ pipelines from Harness to Jenkins (Groovy, DSL) for 250+ services; extended Terraform usage for infra changes and pipeline automation; integrated security tooling and documented incident and deployment processes.
DevOps Engineer (Release Engineering) at Pluto TV (Paramount)
November 1, 2023 - Present
Own CD in Jenkins for multi-environment Kubernetes deployments (Helm-based), including release orchestration, approvals, and rollback. Led migration of 30+ universal pipelines from Harness to Jenkins (Groovy, DSL) for 250+ services, implementing config-driven universal pipelines and achieving 70%+ cost savings. Extended CI in GitHub Actions for build/test workflows. Expanded Terraform/TerraGrunt usage for infrastructure provisioning and pipeline-driven infrastructure changes. Integrated security tooling (e.g., Snyk) for security assessments and compliance checks in Harness. Coordinated and executed migrations of repositories between GitHub organizations with automated pipelines. Troubleshooted and resolved pipeline and deployment issues across AWS, Jenkins, Harness, Kubernetes, and Terraform; collaborated with service teams and documented deployment procedures.
DevOps Engineer at Pluto TV (Paramount)
May 1, 2022 - May 1, 2023
Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines in GitLab and Jenkins. Migrated Kubernetes on-prem clusters to AWS EKS, supporting Helm-based deployments and cluster operations. Managed AWS infrastructure (EC2, EKS, S3, RDS, IAM) and administered PostgreSQL, using Terraform to provision AWS/EKS resources and handle configuration changes. Migrated monitoring from Prometheus/Grafana to Victoria Metrics cluster. Implemented AWS IRSA, deployed kube- green for resource optimization, and removed unused metrics with Mimir tool. Maintained Kubernetes workloads and provided on-call incident response.
DevOps Engineer at Pluto TV (Paramount)
August 1, 2020 - May 1, 2022
Owned PagerDuty integration for incident management, escalation policies, and on-call workflows. Built monitoring dashboards and runbooks; supported incident response and operational readiness. Documented deployment procedures and contributed to on-call practices.
DevOps Engineer (Release Engineering) at Pluto TV, Paramount
November 1, 2023 - Present
Own CI in Jenkins for multi-environment Kubernetes deployments (Helm-based), including release orchestration, approvals, and rollbacks. Led migration of 30+ universal pipelines from Harness to Jenkins (Groovy, DSL) for 250+ services—implemented config-driven universal pipelines with 70%+ cost savings. Extended CI in GitHub Actions for build/test workflows. Expanded Terraform/Terragrunt usage for infra provisioning and pipeline-driven changes. Integrated security tooling (e.g., Snyk) for security assessments and compliance checks in Harness. Coordinated and executed repository migrations between GitHub orgs with automated pipelines. Troubleshooted and resolved pipeline and deployment issues across AWS, Jenkins, Harness, Kubernetes, and Terraform; collaborated with service teams and documentation. Technologies used include AWS (EKs, IAM, EC2, ECR, VPC, S3), Kubernetes, Helm, Istio, Terraform, Terragrunt, GitLab, Jenkins, Prometheus, Victoria Metrics, PostgreSQL, Nginx, Linux.
DevOps Engineer at Pluto TV, Paramount
May 1, 2023 - December 31, 2023
Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines in GitLab and Jenkins. Managed AWS infrastructure and administered PostgreSQL; used Terraform to manage AWS/EKS resources and related configuration changes. Migrated monitoring to Victoria Metrics; introduced AWS IRSA; deployed kube-green to optimize resource usage and removed unused metrics with automated tooling. Maintained Kubernetes work queues and provided on-call incident responses. End-to-end cloud provisioning and infra automation.
DevOps Engineer at Pluto TV, Paramount
May 1, 2022 - May 31, 2023
Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines and incident management tooling; migrated Kubernetes on-prem clusters to AWS EKS, supporting Helm-based deployments and cluster operations. Implemented IaC changes with Terraform/Terragrunt and maintained post-deployment verifications. Documented incident management processes and monitoring infrastructure.
DevOps Engineer at Pluto TV, Paramount
August 1, 2020 - May 31, 2022
Integrated PagerDuty for incident management, escalation policies, and on-call workflows. Prototyped anomaly detection to improve signal quality and reduce alert fatigue. Developed a Python-based Prometheus exporter to expose custom metrics for monitoring and alerting. Built dashboards and defined SLIs/SLOs and error budgets to align monitoring with business goals. Maintained the monitoring stack on Kubernetes, deployed updates via Helm, and automated rollouts through GitLab CI/CD. Documented incident management processes and infrastructure monitoring.
Consultant at Independent
February 1, 2018 - February 28, 2019
Consulted early-stage startups on adopting and integrating blockchain solutions. Designed token-economy models and strategies to optimize incentives and fundraising. Prepared topics, led study sessions, and organized meetups for startup founders.

Education

Bachelor of Arts at American University of Armenia
January 1, 2017 - January 1, 2021
High School Diploma at PhysMath School after A. Shahinyan
January 1, 2012 - January 1, 2017
Bachelor of Arts in Economics at American University of Armenia
January 1, 2017 - January 1, 2021
High School Diploma at PhysMath School after A. Shahinyan
January 1, 2012 - January 1, 2017
Bachelor of Arts at American University of Armenia
January 1, 2017 - January 1, 2021
High School Diploma at Physics-Mathematics School after A. Shahinyan
January 1, 2012 - January 1, 2017

Qualifications

Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator (LFCS)
January 1, 2024 - January 24, 2026
Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate
January 1, 2023 - January 24, 2026
Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)
January 1, 2023 - January 24, 2026
Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
January 1, 2023 - January 24, 2026
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
January 1, 2022 - January 24, 2026
Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
January 1, 2022 - January 24, 2026
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
January 1, 2022 - January 24, 2026
Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator (LFCS)
January 1, 2024 - January 24, 2026
Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate
January 1, 2023 - January 24, 2026
Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)
January 1, 2023 - January 24, 2026
Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
January 1, 2023 - January 24, 2026
Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
January 1, 2022 - January 24, 2026
Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
January 1, 2022 - January 24, 2026
Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator (LFCS)
January 1, 2024 - January 24, 2026
Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate
January 1, 2023 - January 24, 2026
Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)
January 1, 2023 - January 24, 2026
Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
January 1, 2023 - January 24, 2026
Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
January 1, 2022 - January 24, 2026
Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Fundamentals
January 1, 2022 - January 24, 2026
Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
January 1, 2022 - January 24, 2026
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
January 1, 2022 - January 24, 2026

Industry Experience

Media & Entertainment, Software & Internet, Professional Services

Experience Level

Expert
Expert
Expert
Expert
Expert
Intermediate
Intermediate
Intermediate

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