He served in the Armed Forces of Armenia from 1993 to 2018. He previously served as the head of the intelligence department of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, but was dismissed from this post in 2016 due to shortcomings in the armed forces' intelligence in the 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. He holds the rank of major general. From 2018 to 2021 he was an advisor to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. From 13 April to 20 July 2021 he was the First Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Armenia. On 20 July 2021, by the decision of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, he was appointed First Deputy Minister of Defense, and on 2 August of the same year, he was appointed Minister of Defense.