DR readiness
Maintained a standby production cluster strategy with documented failover and restore steps.
Resume
Pedram Sarani
Site Reliability Engineer / DevOps Engineer
CKA | Kubernetes | Service Mesh | Argo Stack | Helm
- saranipedram@yahoo.com
- Phone
- +98 937 260 5363
- Location
- Tehran, Iran (Hybrid)
- Website
- https://saranipedram.github.io
Summary
SRE/DevOps engineer with 8+ years of experience in Linux administration and production operations, including Kubernetes platform reliability and service mesh. Hands-on with multi-cluster operations (12 independent clusters overall), day-2 tasks (upgrades, troubleshooting), and incident response workflows. Experienced with GitOps delivery using Argo Stack (Argo CD, Argo Rollouts, Argo Workflows, Argo Events) and Helm. Strong focus on observability (Prometheus/Grafana, ELK) and distributed tracing (Jaeger), plus controlled failure testing with Chaos Mesh. Familiar with DR practices such as standby clusters and multi-location off-cluster backups for etcd snapshots (including S3-compatible storage).
Selected achievements
Backup readiness
Implemented 3-location off-cluster retention for etcd snapshots (S3-compatible object storage, secondary datastore managed by the virtualization team, plus an on-host copy).
Observability & resilience
Strengthened troubleshooting with metrics/logs/traces (Prometheus/Grafana, ELK, Jaeger) and controlled failure testing (Chaos Mesh).
Professional experience
FANAP Infrastructure
Site Reliability Engineer (Full-time)
Sep 2022 - Present
Pardis/Tehran, Iran (Hybrid)
- Operated 3 production Kubernetes clusters (25 worker nodes, 5 control-plane nodes, 5 etcd) with service mesh; supported 12 independent clusters across environments.
- Supported ~100 production services and ~200 sandbox services; assisted reliability and capacity planning for high-traffic workloads (~2M requests/day).
- Maintained DR readiness via a standby cluster approach and multi-location off-cluster backups for etcd snapshots; documented restore/failover procedures.
- Worked with Argo ecosystem tooling: Argo CD, Argo Rollouts, Argo Workflows, and Argo Events; used GitOps patterns and Helm-based packaging; used Chaos Mesh for controlled failure testing when applicable.
- Improved observability practices using metrics/logs/traces (Prometheus/Grafana, ELK, Jaeger) to speed up troubleshooting.
Fanap Soft
DevOps Engineer (Full-time)
Oct 2019 - Mar 2023
Pardis, Iran (Hybrid)
- Internal transfer within FANAP group to FANAP Infrastructure (Sep 2022).
- Collaborated with developers to streamline deployment and delivery workflows.
- Automated repeatable operations using Ansible and shell scripting; supported CI/CD pipelines where applicable.
- Standardized container runtime configuration with Docker to improve release consistency.
AloPeyk
DevOps Engineer (Full-time)
Jul 2019 - Oct 2019
Iran
- Supported production operations and deployment tooling for an on-demand delivery platform.
Pars Parva System (ParsPack)
System Administrator (Full-time)
Feb 2017 - Jul 2019
Tehran Province, Iran
- Administered Linux servers: OS tuning, user management, service operations, troubleshooting.
- Supported web and database services (MySQL); automated recurring tasks with shell scripts.