Arun Kumar D K
Bangalore
Summary
Principal Consultant at Capco with over 15 years of experience in IT, including 15 years as a Linux SME, 6 years in DevOps, and 3 years in regulatory reporting. Highly skilled in enterprise Linux administration, performance tuning, and automation, with a strong background in implementing DevOps practices using tools like Ansible, Jenkins, Git, and Terraform. Experienced in cloud migration strategies and CI/CD pipeline management across hybrid and AWS environments. Proficient in Axiom V9/V10, with hands-on experience leading regulatory reporting support and delivery. Demonstrated success in leading high-performing teams, optimizing production support processes, and engaging stakeholders to drive operational excellence and system resilience in the financial services sector.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Principle Consultant
Capco
08.2024 - Current
- Company Overview: Capco (The Capital Markets Company) is a global management and technology consultancy specializing in the financial services industry. With a strong focus on banking, capital markets, wealth and asset management, Capco delivers innovative solutions in digital transformation, data analytics, and regulatory compliance. The firm partners with top-tier financial institutions to drive operational excellence and business agility.
- As the Manager for the Regulatory Production Support team, I lead a 20-member team distributed across Bangalore and Pune, overseeing the stability, performance, and compliance of critical regulatory reporting systems. My primary responsibility is to ensure smooth and accurate feed processing into the Axiom platform, supporting both Axiom v9 and v10 environments.
- We handle time-sensitive regulatory reporting across UK, US, and APAC regions, ensuring all data loads, validations, and submissions are performed reliably and within defined SLAs. This includes managing and troubleshooting data feed issues, coordinating with upstream/downstream teams, and performing impact assessments during incidents or production changes.
- Key tools and technologies used in our environment include: Axiom v9 and v10 for regulatory data modeling and report generation, SQL for data validation and investigation, Grafana and OTEL (OpenTelemetry) for real-time monitoring and alerting, TWS (Tivoli Workload Scheduler) for managing and scheduling ETL jobs.
- In addition to managing day-to-day support, I actively participate in incident management (P1/P2), change governance, root cause analysis, and audit readiness. I regularly collaborate with development, QA, infrastructure, and business stakeholders to drive improvements in system resilience, automation, and process optimization.
- My role also includes performance management, mentoring, and growth planning for team members, along with conducting regular sync-ups and governance calls with client-side leadership and compliance teams.
- Capco (The Capital Markets Company) is a global management and technology consultancy specializing in the financial services industry. With a strong focus on banking, capital markets, wealth and asset management, Capco delivers innovative solutions in digital transformation, data analytics, and regulatory compliance. The firm partners with top-tier financial institutions to drive operational excellence and business agility.
Associate Vice President
JP Morgan Chase
09.2017 - 06.2024
- Company Overview: JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is a leading global financial services firm with assets of $2.6 trillion and operations worldwide. The firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers and small business, commercial banking, financial transaction processing, and asset management.
- Worked as a DevOps team member in the CCM Infra (NIMBUS) team, supporting CIB payment applications during their cloud migration journey. Responsibilities included working on the GKP platform using Kubernetes, Ansible, Grafana, Gemfire, and Geneos, along with service management and certificate requests through APIGEE.
- Handled namespace creation, monitoring, ITSM tasks, access reviews, and resolution of P1 incidents, ensuring audit compliance and process improvement. Also served as the Technical Lead for Datacenter and V2V Migrations, managing a 27-member team across Bangalore and Hyderabad.
- Led Linux server migrations as part of data center exit and EOL initiatives, and acted as an SME and escalation point for the Linux platform. Developed pre- and post-migration health check scripts and efficiently planned resources for smooth execution.
- Participated in project tracking meetings, team performance discussions, and provided mentorship through technical sessions and reviews. Played a key role in internal hiring, team coordination, and maintaining strong communication with stakeholders.
- JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is a leading global financial services firm with assets of $2.6 trillion and operations worldwide. The firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers and small business, commercial banking, financial transaction processing, and asset management.
Senior Delivery Consultant
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
09.2015 - 08.2017
- Provided OS-level support for over 30,000 Solaris and Linux servers across global banking infrastructure. Worked on OS and server configurations including NFS, NIS, Jumpstart (Solaris), and PXE boot (Linux), with hands-on experience in AFS, SAN, NetApp, and Veritas tools like Cluster Server, NetBackup, and Volume Manager.
- Served as Technical Lead for the Incident and Patching teams, managing a global team of 100 across India, US, EMEA, and Singapore. Responsibilities included patch planning, resourcing, technical escalations, and client reporting.
- Previously part of the Build team handling server builds, DECOMs, storage uplift, and RFS tasks. Performed weekend and on-call support for production, including OS upgrades, SAN/NAS configs, cluster setups, HBA replacements, and firmware upgrades.
Subject Matter Expert (SME)
IBM India Pvt Ltd
01.2010 - 08.2015
- Global Build Center is the big team who do Server Build on All platform for all Client of IBM. As per the Build sheet provided by the Customers we need to Build VM, Physical Servers. Install the Tools required and satisfy the Pre requisite.
- We need to Follow Client Hand over process before we Hand Over the Servers to BAU. We will get good exposure on VMware, Clustering, Storage Allocation, NAS. Have exposure to AFS, NFS, NIS, Netapp, and SAN. Also worked in Veritas products like Veritas Cluster Server, Veritas Netbackup and Veritas Volume Manager.
Senior Software Engineer
Accenture Services Pvt Ltd
01.2007 - 06.2009
- Morgan Stanley is a major banking sector company across the world. Supports more than Eighty thousand servers and fifty thousand desktops running on Solaris and Linux. We provide OS level support. We have done OS configuration, server configuration (NFS, NIS, Webservers, Several other application servers) and desktop installations.
- Using Jumpstart for Solaris and Pxeboot for Linux machines. Have exposure to AFS, NFS, NIS, Netapp, and SAN. Also worked in Veritas products like Veritas Cluster Server, Veritas Netbackup and Veritas Volume Manager.
- Worked in different hardware like IBM, DELL, HP, Compaq servers and blades and a variety of sun machines. OS rebuild, Upgrade, downgrade. Updating boot params etc.
UNIX System Administrator
Nascent Technologies
07.2004 - 12.2006
- Linux System Administration: Implementation and Remote Administration of Linux based network services such as Remote Installation, FTP, Telnet, Send mail, Webserver (Apache), Samba, Printing services, Network Information Service, Network File System, DNS, Squid(Proxy Server), IP Tables(Firewall), NAT, DHCP, OpenSSH, Secure Communication using SSH, sftp, Open SSL (SMTPS, IMAPS, POP3S, HTTPS etc.), Job scheduling using Crontab and at, RAID, Logical Volume Management, Quota Settings, Users and groups Management and giving permissions, SMTP, Swap extension.
- VMware Administration: Creating a New Virtual Machine By cloning, from Template, from format file. Setting the MAC Address Manually for a Virtual Machine, Forcing the Network Driver to Use a Specific Speed. Sharing Network Adapters and Virtual Networks. VMFS (VMware ESX Server File System), Configuring and Connecting Devices with VMware Tools. DRS, Vmotion, Clustering Virtual machines. VM Kernel Module.
- Veritas Volume Manager and Veritas Netbackup: Configuring the disk under Diskgroups, Creation of new volumes, Resizing of existing volumes and Diskgroups. Configuring the RAID. In Netbackup, I have done the restore and basic Knowledge on the configuration.
- Windows System Administration: Implementation and Administration of Windows based network services such as Terminal Servers, Proxy Server, DNS Server, FTP, Telnet, and DHCP etc. Configuration of Active Directory Domain Controllers. Backup & Recovery. Installing, managing, and troubleshooting Windows 2000/2003 sever & windows 2000 professional. Installation & Connecting LAN with TCP/IP protocol.
- Hardware Administration: PC Assembling & Troubleshooting. Configuring Switches, Modems, and Cisco routers. Installation & configuration of various operating systems & Application Software’s.
Skills
- Regulatory reporting
- Linux systems (Solaris, CentOS, SuSE, HP-UX, AIX)
- Container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker)
- AWS cloud services
- Performance and incident management
- Cloud migration strategies
- Team and project leadership
- Process optimization techniques
- Technical documentation skills
- Stakeholder engagement
- Work planning and prioritization
- Staff and team management
- Technical review expertise
- BASH shell scripting
- Infrastructure as code (Terraform)
- Axiom V9/V10 proficiency
- Database management (MySQL)
- Monitoring tools (Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
- Job scheduling tools (TWS, Control-M)
- Automation tools (Ansible, Jenkins)
- Veritas volume and cluster management
Certification
- CKA – Certified Kubernetes Administrators
- HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (003) (HCP00214320)
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate Certificate
- Sun Certified System Administration for Solaris - 1 (SCSA) (88%)
- Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) EL3
- Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
- Windows 2000 professional. (70 -210)
Personal Information
- Passport Number: M7208995
- Passport Expiry Date: 2025-03-10
- Father's Name: Dhanapalan. R
- Title: Technical Team Lead
- ID Type: Passport
- ID Number: M7208995
- Date of Birth: 06-08-1982
- Gender: Male
- Nationality: Indian
- Marital Status: Married
Academic Qualifications Summary
- Bachelor of Technology (Mechanical Engineering), Kerala University, 2004, 59%
- Pre-Degree, Kerala University, 2000, 72%
- S.S.L.C, Board of Exams, Kerala, 1998, 78%
Passport Issue Date
2015-03-11
Disclaimer
I, Arun Kumar DK, hereby declare that the above information is correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.
Languages
- English
- Malayalam
- Hindi
- Tamil
Accomplishments
- Yellow Topper at Accenture for two years (Morgan Stanley project)
- Bravo Award at IBM for completing the storage migration activity from IBM FastT to EMC Vmax
- Special performance award in HP for Building Patching team
Languages
Malayalam
First Language
English
Proficient (C2)
C2
Timeline
Principle Consultant
Capco
08.2024 - Current
Associate Vice President
JP Morgan Chase
09.2017 - 06.2024
Senior Delivery Consultant
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
09.2015 - 08.2017
Subject Matter Expert (SME)
IBM India Pvt Ltd
01.2010 - 08.2015
Senior Software Engineer
Accenture Services Pvt Ltd
01.2007 - 06.2009
UNIX System Administrator
Nascent Technologies
07.2004 - 12.2006