Sampath S
Chennai
Summary
Results-driven Infrastructure & DevOps Manager with 17+ years of experience in fintech infrastructure management, cloud technologies, and automation. Successfully led high-performance teams in implementing mission-critical solutions for global financial institutions across India, APAC, US, and UK markets. Demonstrated ability to reduce deployment times by 75%, lower infrastructure costs by 40%, and maintain 99.99% uptime for trading platforms processing millions of daily transactions. Skilled in streamlining DevOps workflows, implementing containerization strategies, and ensuring regulatory compliance in the financial services sector.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
5
5
Certifications
Work History
Infrastructure & DevOps Manager
Market Simplified India Limited
11.2021 - Current
- Lead a team of 15+ engineers supporting major financial institutions including Axis Mutual Fund, SBI Securities, Kotak Securities, Charles Schwab, and Kotak Bank
- Migrated JM Capital's Blinkx Trading Mobile app to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), reducing deployment time by 75% through Jenkins-based CI/CD pipelines
- Designed secure AWS EKS cluster for Axis Mutual Fund (2024) with IRSA, ArgoCD, and Karpenter, reducing infrastructure costs by 35%
- Implemented production-grade Kubernetes infrastructure for Credit Access Grameen Limited (2023), receiving CTO recognition for exceptional work
- Automated manual deployments using Jenkins pipelines, reducing deployment time by 80% and achieving zero deployment failures
- Architected fault-tolerant multi-region cloud infrastructure with 99.99% uptime for financial trading platforms
- Orchestrated migration of 200+ applications to cloud infrastructure, reducing costs by 40% while maintaining financial compliance standards
Team Lead - Infrastructure
Market Simplified India Limited
05.2018 - 11.2021
- Managed infrastructure for financial trading platforms serving clients across India, APAC, US, and UK markets
- Designed multi-region disaster recovery architecture that reduced Recovery Time Objective (RTO) from 4 hours to 45 minutes
- Implemented Kubernetes container orchestration for financial applications, improving resource utilization by 300%
- Developed automated compliance tooling for AWS environments, reducing audit preparation time by 70%
- Created high-performance database replication solutions with automated failover for real-time financial data
- Engineered secure CI/CD pipelines ensuring continuous compliance with financial industry regulations
Senior Systems Engineer
Market Simplified India Limited
05.2015 - 05.2018
- Maintained infrastructure for financial trading applications with strict performance and security requirements
- Developed automation framework that reduced routine maintenance time by 85% for financial application servers
- Implemented comprehensive monitoring solutions decreasing incident resolution time from hours to minutes
- Optimized high-transaction financial databases, improving query response times by 65%
- Designed cloud-native backup solutions for AWS workloads meeting financial data compliance requirements
- Implemented high-availability clustering for mission-critical financial services applications
Senior Linux Administrator
Millennium Software Productions Pvt Ltd
08.2014 - 05.2015
- Implemented high-availability RHEL and CentOS Linux server clusters achieving 99.9% uptime
- Deployed centralized monitoring with Nagios, Prometheus, and Zabbix for proactive issue detection
- Developed automated system hardening scripts enforcing security policies across environments
- Created scalable storage solutions with iSCSI and LVM improving I/O performance by 45%
Systems Engineer
Precision Techserve Private Ltd
07.2011 - 10.2013
- Managed Tier 1 Data center maintaining 99.95% uptime for critical business applications
- Implemented and maintained IT infrastructure for 4 servers and 100+ desktop machines
- Administered domain controller including user creation, group management, and policy implementation
- Established secure remote backup solutions with automated verification processes
- Deployed redundant network connections with automatic failover capabilities
Systems Engineer
HCL Infosystems Ltd
07.2005 - 06.2011
- Provided enterprise IT support for 500+ users across multiple locations
- Implemented Windows Server infrastructure with Active Directory integration
- Designed redundant network architecture ensuring continuous business operations
- Developed technical knowledge base reducing recurring issue resolution time by 40%
Education
BSc - IT
Alagappa University
Diploma - Electrical and Electronics Engineering
IRT Polytechnic College
Skills
AWS
GCP
Red Hat OpenStack
Nutanix AHV
VMware
Proxmox
KVM
OpenShift
Jenkins
Azure DevOps
GitHub
Nexus
Artifactory
SonarQube
ArgoCD
ArgoCD Rollouts
Karpenter
Docker
Kubernetes
Podman
containerd
CRI-O
Terraform
Ansible
Vagrant
Prometheus
Grafana
Loki
VictoriaLogs
Nagios
Apache
Tomcat
HAProxy
Nginx
Nginx Ingress
Keepalived
MySQL
MariaDB
AWS RDS
Percona Tools
PostgreSQL
RHEL/CentOS
Ubuntu
Windows Servers
Rpm
deb & fpm
Blue-Green Deployments
Rolling Updates
Canary Deployments
Git
Certification
Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA), 130-142-102
Timeline
Infrastructure & DevOps Manager
Market Simplified India Limited
11.2021 - Current
Team Lead - Infrastructure
Market Simplified India Limited
05.2018 - 11.2021
Senior Systems Engineer
Market Simplified India Limited
05.2015 - 05.2018
Senior Linux Administrator
Millennium Software Productions Pvt Ltd
08.2014 - 05.2015
Systems Engineer
Precision Techserve Private Ltd
07.2011 - 10.2013
Systems Engineer
HCL Infosystems Ltd
07.2005 - 06.2011
Diploma - Electrical and Electronics Engineering
IRT Polytechnic College
BSc - IT
Alagappa University