Andranik Grigoryan
I’m a seasoned DevOps expert passionate about leveraging cutting-edge technologies to optimize and automate cloud environments. This portfolio proudly runs on my self‑hosted Proxmox node 🖥️.
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About Me
I am Andranik Grigoryan, a DevOps expert with 5+ years experience in building, automating, and managing cloud infrastructures. With a strong background in DevOps disciplines and a passion for innovation, I focus on creating scalable, secure, and efficient environments.
Technologies I work with:
- Kubernetes
- AWS
- Ansible
- Wordpress
- Linux
- Terraform
- Prometheus/Grafana
- Helm/Kustomize/ArgoCD
- GitLab/GitHub
- More other
Experience
Spearheaded DevOps initiatives within a cybersecurity-centric organization, focusing on building resilient, secure, and scalable infrastructure across AWS and GCP.
Responsibilities:
- Managed and optimized multi-cloud infrastructure (AWS & GCP).
- Designed and implemented scalable infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines.
- Acted as the first line of defense in incident response and security operations.
- Ensured infrastructure met high standards of performance, availability, and security.
Achievements:
- Architected and deployed a high-performance DNS service capable of handling 150 million requests per day with sub-80ms latency.
- Successfully mitigated multiple DDoS and attack incidents, significantly strengthening the overall security posture.
- Reduced deployment times and operational overhead by automating key workflows and infrastructure components.
Led high-impact DevOps initiatives that transformed our infrastructure and automated our deployment processes.
Responsibilities:
- Managed the project development lifecycle.
- Reviewed and designed component deployments.
- Interacted with management teams to understand needs and align technical solutions.
Achievements:
- Designed a robust zero-trust security system leveraging Hashicorp Vault, Keycloak, and Cilium’s pod-to-pod and node-to-node secure communication features.
- Designed and implemented reliable file storage systems using Longhorn, Minio, and CNCF database operator systems.
- Implemented an integrated Keycloak Helm chart for automated deployment of users, realms, and configurations.
- Developed Ansible playbooks for bare-metal node setup and Kubernetes HA deployment.
- Implemented air-gap deployment strategies using a custom Alpine ISO builder, self-hosted GitLab, ArgoCD, and related tools.
Built and optimized a scalable AWS infrastructure, leveraging Terraform and containerized Jenkins on ECS. Ensured high availability, continuous automation, and effective collaboration with cross-functional teams to align proje needs with technical solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Monitored and maintained AWS infrastructure health, including ECS, EC2, and VPC, ensuring reliability and performance through proactive scaling and issue resolution.
- Continuously automated processes, extending Terraform configurations and refining CI/CD workfl Jenkins to reduce manual intervention
- Collaborated closely with development and operations teams, gathering requirements to design infrastructure solutions that aligned with stakeholder needs.
Achievements:
- Enhanced CI/CD reliability by migrating pipelines to Jenkins and optimizing resource usage on ECS, achieving a 30% increase in deployment efficiency
- Decreased incident response time by implementing proactive monitoring and alerting, ensuring rapid issue resolution and minimal downtime.
Projects
Kubernetes Operator
Helm
CRDs
SSO
Keycloak
GitOps
Keycloak Integrated Operator
A production-ready Kubernetes operator designed to deploy and manage High Availability Keycloak clusters using Helm. Supports fully declarative automation of realms, users, groups, clients, and SSO integration.
Terraform
Proxmox
Kubernetes
GitOps
ArgoCD
Grafana
Portainer
CI/CD
Longhorn
HomeLab
A full-scale infrastructure-as-code Kubernetes deployment stack for Proxmox, featuring GitOps with ArgoCD, Git server via Gitaly, service mesh, observability stack (Grafana, Loki, Prometheus), and a dedicated Docker host with Jenkins and Portainer.
Python
Telegram Bot
Upwork API
Kubernetes
AsyncIO
DevOps Freelancing
UpScout
A Kubernetes-deployed Python Telegram bot that watches Upwork job feeds in real time and alerts a designated channel with relevant job postings based on user preferences and keywords.
Alpine Linux
Shell Scripting
CI
Air-gapped Infra
ISO Customization
Alpine ISO Builder
Automation toolkit to build custom Alpine Linux ISO images. Ideal for secure, air-gapped, or minimal infrastructure setups. Supports custom package sets, configuration injection, and CI-based image generation.
Network Automation
Cisco
MikroTik
Arista
YAML Templates
REST API
Multi-Vendor
CLI/NetConf
Yuni Net
A vendor-agnostic network automation platform supporting Cisco, MikroTik, Arista, and others. Automates configuration, compliance checks, and monitoring workflows with YAML-based templates and REST APIs.
Get in Touch
Let’s connect! Feel free to reach out to me on LinkedIn.