About
I am a Senior Platform Engineer focused on building reliable, secure, and scalable cloud infrastructure. I work across Kubernetes platforms, AWS services, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD automation, and observability to improve system uptime, performance, and developer velocity.
Core Competencies
- Platform Engineering: Kubernetes (EKS), Helm, Argo CD, GitOps, service onboarding
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform modules, environments, policy-as-code patterns
- CI/CD & Automation: pipelines, release automation, build/test/deploy workflows
- Reliability Engineering: SLOs/SLIs, incident response, runbooks, postmortems
- Observability: metrics/logs/traces, alerting strategy, operational dashboards
- Security & Access: IAM strategy, secrets management, least privilege, auditing
Focus Areas
- Reducing operational toil through automation and standardization
- Improving deployment safety via GitOps, progressive delivery, and guardrails
- Hardening cloud environments with pragmatic security controls
Professional Profiles
Keywords (for search)
Zara Papoyan, Senior Platform Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, SRE, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, EKS, Helm, Argo CD, GitOps, CI/CD, Observability.
Contact
For professional inquiries, please connect via LinkedIn.