# David Balayants

David Balayants is a remote worker on Himalayas, Availability/Reliability Engineer at Ameriabank CJSC, based in Armenia.

Source: https://himalayas.app/@davidbalayants

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I build reliable cloud platforms, observability dashboards, and automated Kubernetes delivery pipelines.
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| Detail | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Availability | Looking for a job |
| Location | Armenia |
| Authorized to work in | Armenia |
| Salary expectations | 45k+ USD |
| Job categories | DevOps Engineer, Reliability Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, Cloud Engineer |
| Skills | AWS, EC2, Amazon VPC, NAT, AWS IAM, S3, Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon Route 53, Network Load Balancer (NLB), AWS Systems Manager, DynamoDB, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Azure, Terraform, TFLint, Ansible, Docker, Docker Compose, Kubernetes, Kubeadm, Helm, Horizontal Pod Autoscalers, Nginx Ingress Controller, Cert Manager, Gitlab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps Pipelines, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Zabbix, Observium, SLIs SLO SLAs, SLOs, KPI Reporting, GitOps, KEDA, Linux, TCP IP, HTTP, DNS, VPN, VLAN, Routing, Layer 2 Security, Cisco Packet Tracer, BASH, C, TypeScript, NodeJS, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Express, EJS, Vite, Vitest, Calico, Nginx, GitLab AWS OIDC, Kubernetes RBAC, Trivy, Gitleaks, Datadog APM, Pthreads |
| Portfolio | https://gitlab.com/final-devops |
| LinkedIn | https://linkedin.com/in/david-balayants |
| GitHub | https://github.com/balayantsDAVID |

## What I'm looking for

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I'm looking to grow with a team that treats reliability, automation, and security as part of everyday engineering.
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## About

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At Ameriabank, I define SLIs and SLOs for 10+ platform, internal, and product services, turning operational metrics into KPI reporting for team leads and C-level management.

I built and maintain an availability dashboard that aggregates Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, Observium, and Zabbix. I moved it to Kubernetes with automated Azure DevOps and Argo CD deployments and KEDA scaling.

I also lead DevOps practice sessions at Picsart, mentoring interns in Linux, C, networking, containers, CI/CD, and cloud services. My projects combine AWS, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, GitLab CI, and TypeScript to deliver secure, observable platforms.
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## Experience

### Availability/Reliability Engineer (current)

Ameriabank CJSC. Jun 2026 - Present

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Defined and implemented SLIs/SLOs for 10+ platform services and built an availability dashboard aggregating multiple monitoring tools. Moved the dashboard to Kubernetes with automated deployments and maintain it in production.
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Skills: SLOs, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, Observium, Zabbix, Kubernetes, Azure-DevOps, ArgoCD, KEDA

### Practice Assistant (current)

[Picsart](https://himalayas.app/companies/picsart). Feb 2026 - Present

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Lead practice sessions for DevOps interns, teaching Linux fundamentals, OS internals, C programming, and networking labs. Support hands-on labs in containers, CI/CD, and cloud services.
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Skills: Linux, C, Networking, Cisco-Packet-Tracer, BASH, DevOps, Mentorship

### UAV Operator & FPV Drone Instructor

Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Armenia. Jan 2023 - Jan 2025

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Operated and maintained fixed-wing UAVs and FPV drones for operational missions. Trained FPV pilots across the full drone lifecycle including hardware assembly, programming, and tactics.
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Skills: UAV-Operations, FPV-Drones, Training, Hardware-Assembly, Soldering, Programming

## Education

### Picsart Academy

DevOps Engineering Program, DevOps Engineering. 2025 - Present

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DevOps Engineering Program from June 2025 to September 2026.
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### Russian-Armenian University

Bachelor's degree, Management. 2022 - Present

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Bachelor's degree in Management, with studies paused for military service from 2023 to 2025.
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## Tech stack

- AWS IAM
- Amazon EC2
- Amazon S3
- Kubernetes
- Docker Compose
- Helm
- Amazon CloudFront
- Jenkins
- GitHub Actions
- GitLab CI
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- Amazon Route 53
- Node.js
- Terraform
- C
- Grafana
- Prometheus
- Zabbix
- Observium
- Amazon DynamoDB
- Linux
- Datadog
- Ansible
- TypeScript
- Docker
- Amazon VPC
- NGINX
- AWS Elastic Beanstalk
- Trivy
- ArgoCD
- Vite
- Vitest
- Argo CD
- Bash
- Calico
- Gitleaks
- Cert-manager
- KEDA
- Express

To contact David, message them from this profile with a Himalayas employer account: [Hire on Himalayas](https://himalayas.app/hire).

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