DevOps · Infrastructure · Yerevan, Armenia

Production infrastructure that stays up — automated, observable, secure.

I'm Nerses Antonyan, a DevOps engineer and system administrator. After 13 years keeping regulated banking systems accurate and online, I now design, automate and operate production infrastructure across Linux and Windows — with monitoring, CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code built in from day one.

Systems that areSecureReliableObservable
Remote & on-site Full infrastructure lifecycle Security-minded
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Why Nerses

Financial-grade discipline, applied to infrastructure.

A rare combination: someone who has lived inside systems where an error or an hour of downtime has real consequences — and who now builds the automation and observability that prevent both.

Secure by design

Hardened servers, least-privilege access and hands-on penetration testing — finding weaknesses before attackers do.

Reliable by default

13+ years in banking, where downtime and inaccuracy weren't options — now built into how every system runs.

Fully observable

Prometheus, Grafana and Zabbix wired in from the start, so incidents surface — and get resolved — before users notice.

Automated end to end

Terraform, Ansible and Bash turn manual, error-prone work into reproducible, version-controlled infrastructure.

13yr
In regulated financial systems — reporting, credit & treasury
5yr
Trading digital assets & cryptocurrency markets
11+
Core DevOps & infrastructure technologies
3
Languages — Armenian, Russian & English
Experience

From bank ledgers to build pipelines.

A career built on operational accountability — carried from financial institutions into modern infrastructure.

◆ Current focusCurrent

DevOps Engineer & Infrastructure Consultant

Independent · Remote

Designing, provisioning and operating production infrastructure for clients — Linux and Windows servers, containerized workloads, CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code, with monitoring and alerting in place from the first deploy. Everything built to be secure, reliable and observable — now expanding into penetration testing and security assessments.

Jul 2025 — Present Remote Linux · Docker · Kubernetes · Terraform · Observability

Red Invest Group LLC Current

Sep 2025 — Present
Banking & Notarial Processes Manager
Yerevan, Armenia

Artsakhbank

Feb 2024 — Sep 2025
Dealer — Financial Operations Department
Yerevan, Armenia · treasury & market operations

Artsakhbank

Nov 2018 — Feb 2024
Senior Specialist — Credit Committees Support & Credit Analysis
Yerevan, Armenia · risk & credit assessment

Artsakhbank

May 2012 — Nov 2018
Specialist / Senior Specialist — CBA Reporting Department
Yerevan, Armenia · regulatory reporting & data accuracy
Selected Work

Infrastructure, shipped and running.

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Securitynew direction

Penetration testing & security assessment

Authorized vulnerability assessments and penetration testing — probing infrastructure, servers and web applications, then hardening whatever's exposed.

Pen testingVuln assessmentHardeningNetwork security
CI / CDlive

Automated deployment pipeline

End-to-end build, test and release with zero-downtime rollouts and automatic rollback on failed health checks.

GitLab CIDockerBashNGINX
Observabilitylive

Monitoring & alerting stack

Metrics, dashboards and alert routing across a fleet of services — surfacing incidents before they reach users.

PrometheusGrafanaAlertmanager
IaClive

Infrastructure as code

Reproducible environments provisioned declaratively, versioned in git and rolled out through peer review.

TerraformAnsibleLinux
Platformlive

Containerized workloads

Orchestration for stateful and stateless services, with resource limits, secrets management and rolling updates.

KubernetesDockerPostgreSQL
Reliabilitylive

Hardened Linux servers

Provisioning, SSH hardening, DNS/DHCP and least-privilege access for secure, maintainable server fleets.

LinuxSSHDNSBash
Core Competencies

The full toolchain, hands-on.

Security & Penetration Testing

Penetration testingVulnerability assessmentServer hardeningNetwork securityAccess control

Systems & Administration

Linux serversWindows serversSSHDNSDHCPUser privileges

Automation & IaC

TerraformAnsibleBash scriptingInfrastructure as Code

Containers & CI/CD

DockerKubernetesCI/CD pipelines

Networking & Web

TCP/IPOSI modelNGINXApacheIIS

Data & Observability

PostgreSQLMySQLPrometheusGrafanaZabbix

Financial & Crypto Domain

Banking operationsCBA reportingCredit analysisTreasury dealingCrypto trading
Education
Armenian National Agrarian University
Stepanakert, Armenia
Master's2012 — 2014
Artsakh State University
Stepanakert, Armenia
Bachelor's2006 — 2012
Let's talk

Looking for a DevOps engineer who owns reliability?

I'm available now for remote or on-site roles and infrastructure consulting. Bring me your servers, pipelines and uptime targets — I'll bring the discipline to keep them running.