Dr. Vardan Vardanyan

•Responsible for engaging with customers to design and implement solutions •Collaborate with customers to gain a deep understanding of their requirements and develop technical architectures that translate their business needs into cloud solutions •Lead the architectural engagement for customers and support through every stage of the deployment process from PoC to Prod deployment •Deliver engaging workshops and demonstrations to customers •Maintain expertise by staying abreast of emerging cloud technologies

• Technical Lead of AWS based hosting platform. • Architecture design and integration of AWS cloud services with on-premises technologies. • Planning and development of a Lift-and-shift migration of 800+ applications, consolidating from 14 hosting providers worldwide to AWS. • Owner of AWS security compliance, providing and supporting security features for PCI DSS compliance. • Technology owner of configuration standards for AWS services. • Quality assurance and general support of the AWS platform.

• Design, maintain and optimize production and development infrastructure. • Plan and execute a complex migration of production services to AWS. • Define, coordinate and negotiate server system concept, product features, requirement specifications, power budgeting and cost sizing with external datacenters. • Design and deploy systems management via Ansible on a virtual environment with VMWare. • Setup and manage monitoring and data visualization tools (Nagios, NewRelic, Kibana, Grafana).

• Install and support the server operating system, system management software and operating system utilities including upgrades (AIX, SUSE Linux). • Manage the operating system configuration and the file systems (LVM). • Server automation and systems management via IBM BigFix (IBM Endpoint Manager). • Apply operating system updates and patches. • Maintain the hardware and software configuration. • End to End system restoration. • Manage system ID’s and domain structure.

• Management of production systems (hardware: HP Blades, Servers, Storages and software: DNS, DHCP, Mail, Tacacs). • Setup and installation of disaster recovery datacenter. • Setup and management (server side upgrade/migration) of Atlassian products (JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket). • Setup and administration of monitoring systems (Nagios, Cacti) and asset management tools (Racktables). • Administration and management of virtualized environment (VMWare ESXi).

• Management of production systems (hardware: HP blades, Sun SPARC and OS: Linux, HP-UX, Solaris). • Management of production database systems (Oracle, MySQL). • Management of production SAN infrastructure. • Management of production monitoring, analytical (Nagios, RRD) and asset management tools (Racktables). • Support and management of HP-UX based VERITAS Cluster. • VERITAS NetBackup Server/Client administration and support. • Setup and administration of Mail relay server (Postfix).

• Infrastructural design of Apache, Postfix, LDAP and MySQL based Internet products. • The hosting production environment development and maintenance. • First responsible of the hosting product. • Cisco, Edge-core switches configuration and maintenance. • RSA key authorization implementation and integration to the existing network infrastructure. • DNS and monitoring systems installation and maintenance. • Migration of production services from FreeBSD to Linux.

• Backup system administration (IBM Tivoli). • Datacenter migration/virtualization rollout. • Automated installation environment setup. • Ownership of the company-wide DNS system (BIND). • MRTG, RRD administration and maintenance • Centralized configuration management system installation and support.

Cybernetics

Computer Systems and Design

Computer Systems and Design