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Serzh Vratsyan

@serzhvratsyan

Network Administrator II at Questrade who built a production-replica lab protecting 80+ upgrades from service-impacting outages.

Armenia
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At Questrade Financial Group, I built a full-scale replica of the production data center and made it the required validation gate for upgrades, migrations, and configuration changes. That work earned the company-wide Sunshine Seeker Award, selected from 1,135+ nominees.

I delivered 80+ firmware upgrades and 20+ hardware replacements without a service-impacting outage. I also moved a 100-user office from Palo Alto to FortiGate, converting 600 firewall policies with automation and completing the cutover without unplanned downtime.

I built Python and Ansible automation that checks 140 devices each day for routing and configuration issues, and wrote cleanup tooling to remove 10,000+ decommissioned objects and unused policies. My work also includes n8n vendor notifications and a Device42 network CMDB covering data center assets.

I owned the data center asset workstream for Questrade's SOC 2 audit, which we passed. Before Questrade, at Team Telecom Armenia, I resolved corporate network incidents as a Tier 2 escalation and helped the team reduce ticket resolution time with diagnostic procedures.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Current

Network Administrator II

Questrade Financial Group

Mar 2024 - Present (2 years 7 months)

Promoted after 7 months. Own daily change execution across production infrastructure, including changes originating from other teams. Built a full-scale replica of the production data center and made it the mandatory gate for every upgrade, migration, and config change, earning a company-wide award.

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Network Administrator I

Questrade Financial Group

Sep 2023 - Mar 2024 (6 months)

Covered Tier 2/3 escalations on the PagerDuty on-call rotation for after-hours outages, and wrote up resolution steps so recurring issues stopped needing senior involvement. Created CR templates that standardized pre-checks, deployment steps, post-validation, and rollback across 50+ monthly change requests.

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Technical Support Specialist

Team Telecom Armenia

Jul 2022 - Aug 2023 (1 year 1 month)

Held 95%+ SLA compliance while resolving 30+ corporate network incidents a week as Tier 2 escalation. Diagnosed Layer 1–4 failures across ISP access and backbone infrastructure, using Grafana and Zabbix to catch degradation before it hit customers.

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

National Polytechnic University of Armenia logoNA

National Polytechnic University of Armenia

Master of Science, Computer and Information Systems Security

2025 -

Pursuing a Master of Science in Computer and Information Systems Security, expected to complete in the coming years.

National Polytechnic University of Armenia logoNA

National Polytechnic University of Armenia

Bachelor of Science, Computer and Information Systems Security

2021 - 2025

Completed a Bachelor of Science in Computer and Information Systems Security from 2021 to 2025.

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