Zara Papoyan — Senior Platform Engineer

Zara Papoyan

Senior Platform Engineer (DevOps / SRE) — AWS • Kubernetes • Terraform • CI/CD • Reliability

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.

Professional Recommendations

“Zara is a brilliant System Engineer — well educated, experienced. It was a real honor for me to work with Zara.”

Ihor Piddubnyak
July 2023

“Zara was knowledgeable, easy to work with, and one of the go-to people to solve complex problems. I highly recommend Zara for any technical role due to her skills (both technical and interpersonal).”

Julio Villarreal Pelegrino
Director, Technology & GTM, Global Services @ Red Hat · July 2023

“Zara was a huge help during a difficult transition and went the extra mile to ensure issues were handled swiftly with minimal customer impact. She is skilled, dedicated, and easy to work with.”

Andrew Stangl
Senior Site Reliability Engineer · September 2022

“Zara showed herself as a high-level system administrator who knows Linux, DNS, and web hosting. Zara is very responsible and it is a real pleasure to work with her.”

Yuriy Korostyshevskyy
Principal Technical Project Manager / Solution Architect · September 2022

Recommendations sourced from professional colleagues (LinkedIn).