Areg Stepanyan

Operate and improve highly available Kubernetes and AWS EKS environments, manage infrastructure as code with Terraform, and build Jenkins-based CI/CD pipelines. Implement observability with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and Elasticsearch, and improve reliability through autoscaling and disaster recovery.

Designed and maintained AWS infrastructure using Terraform, administered Kubernetes workloads and Helm releases, and automated build and deployment with GitLab CI/CD and GitHub Actions. Built monitoring and logging workflows with Prometheus, Grafana, Fluent Bit, and Elasticsearch/Kibana.

Set up CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Argo CD, automated infrastructure provisioning with Terraform, and implemented EKS monitoring and logging with Loki and Prometheus. Migrated workloads from AWS EKS to on-premises Kubernetes using kubeadm and kube-VIP, and integrated Kafka with Elasticsearch through Logstash.

Worked with AWS, Terraform, and Kubernetes, maintained infrastructure as code, and created Dockerfiles and Docker Compose configurations. Provisioned PostgreSQL on Amazon RDS and implemented Vault disaster-recovery automation using AWS Lambda, CloudWatch alarms, and Argo CD.

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) certification.