Gor Poghosyan

HS Cloud is a VMware Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud Services and Enterprise Solution Provider based in Yerevan, Armenia. The company service portfolio includes Infrastructure as a Service, Backup as a Service, Disaster Recovery as a Service, Platform as a Service and Software as a Service offerings together with general IT consulting and managed services.

Responsibilities:

• Managing and supporting network, hardware and software operations.
• Managing server migration, connections between data centers.
• Planning, installing and managing Layer 3 network, distributed file servers and storage clusters.
• Managing backup servers with Nakivo and Veeam software.
• Deployment of intergration with public clouds (AWS, GCP) for BaaS.
• Creating and implementing disaster recovery plans and procedures for data centers, including hot sites for mission critical applications.
• Creating Ansible playbooks for automating what is possible.
• Helping customers migrate and run their projects/apps on our infrastructure.

As a DevOps Engineer I started to automate all the processes that were repeated more than 2 times a month and migrate services from bare metal/VMs to containers.

• Automating infrastructure operations like installing services, SSL Certificates, Firewall Rules, Access Rules, VPNs using Python/Bash scripting.
• Automating new customers registration and configuration workflow using Python scripting.
• Automating report and bill delivery workflow for B2B customers use Pay-As-You-Go model.
• Working closely with DEVs to improve and automate deployment processes.
• Deployment of infrastructure and dockerfiles for new projects.
• Maintaining security, backup, and redundancy strategies.

When I first came to Arpinet it was a small start up, there were only a few servers with in-box solutions for ISP. Within a few months, I set up a new billing system and migrated all subscribers on it, deployed whole range of services required for ISP (DNS, TACACS, Proxy, Balancer, Database, Web Server, Mail Server, ERP, etc.).

Responsibilities:

• Design, implementation and support of ISP network.
• Troubleshooting of complex multi vendor infrastructure.
• Installing and configuring operating systems and application software.
• Deployment of servers and network backup, monitoring and management systems.
• Planning and rollout of servers and network upgrades and migrations.
• Implementation of network analytics and automation scripts.