Vinoth Subbiah

SRE Manager, with 21+ years of global experience across the UAE, USA, and India, leading large-scale reliability, cloud, and platform engineering initiatives for high-availability enterprise systems. Proven track record of building and mentoring SRE teams, owning 24×7 incident and security on-call operations, and acting as Incident Commander for major outages and security events.

Deep expertise in designing and operating resilient, scalable platforms across Azure, AWS, VMware, and Kubernetes/OpenShift environments, with strong emphasis on SLO-driven engineering, error budgets, and automation-first operations. Successfully implemented self-healing systems, automated remediation, and proactive observability to significantly reduce MTTR and operational toil.

Strong background in DevSecOps and compliance-driven environments (PCI-DSS, GDPR), embedding security controls and automated checks into CI/CD pipelines. Experienced in performance optimization, disaster recovery, and enterprise-scale traffic management using CDN and WAF platforms. Known for aligning reliability engineering with business goals, customer experience, and sustainable platform growth.

• Cloud & Platform Engineering:Owned the design and evolution of hybrid and cloud-native platforms across Azure, AWS, and VMware, supporting mission-critical, high-traffic workloads. Established production-grade Kubernetes and OpenShift standards (Helm, GitOps) to ensure scalability, resilience, and operational consistency.
• Site Reliability Engineering & Automation:Led SRE strategy with strong focus on reliability, error budgets, and operational excellence. Drove self-healing architectures and automated remediation to reduce MTTR and eliminate toil using Jenkins, GitLab, Terraform, Ansible, and Python.
• Observability, Incident & On-Call Management:Defined observability strategy across 300+ microservices, governing SLIs, SLOs, and alerting aligned to business impact. Oversaw 24×7 on-call operations and acted as Incident Commander for major production outages, leading RCA and cross-functional resolution.
• Security Operations & Disaster Recovery:Partnered with Security teams to integrate reliability and security operations, supporting PCI-DSS and GDPR compliance. Led regional DR design and testing using IaC and automation, and supported WAF, DDoS mitigation, and security incident response.
• CI/CD, DevSecOps & Platform Enablement:Owned end-to-end CI/CD strategy, embedding IaC and automated quality and security controls into delivery pipelines. Enabled engineering teams with standardized, scalable deployment frameworks that improved release velocity and stability.
• Networking, Performance & Resilience Engineering:Provided architectural oversight for enterprise networking, traffic management, CDN, and WAF platforms (F5, Akamai, Imperva). Led performance and resilience optimization initiatives—reviewing critical paths, reducing p95/p99 latency, and enforcing resilience patterns under peak load.
• Leadership, Org Design & Cost Governance:Built and led globally distributed SRE and platform teams with clear ownership models and on-call structures. Owned capacity planning and reliability investment decisions, balancing availability, performance, and cost efficiency. Acted as a trusted partner to Engineering, Product, Security, and Business leadership to align reliability with customer experience and growth.

Enterprise Observability Platform Implementation:Led the design and rollout of a centralized observability platform spanning metrics, logs, traces, and alerts across hundreds of services. Standardized SLIs, SLOs, dashboards, and alerting policies, enabling proactive issue detection and significantly improving incident response and operational visibility across teams.

SLO-Driven Reliability Governance & Error Budgets:Introduced SLO- and error-budget–driven reliability governance to enable data-driven trade-offs between feature velocity and system stability. Embedded error budgets into release decisions, reducing repeat production incidents and improving overall service reliability.

Incident Management, On-Call Health & Alert Quality Optimization:Designed and governed 24×7 incident management and on-call practices, defining clear escalation paths, incident command roles, and RCA standards. Improved alert quality and reduced on-call fatigue, strengthening response effectiveness during major production incidents.

AI-Assisted Alert Noise Reduction & On-Call Optimization:Led adoption of AI-assisted anomaly detection and alert correlation to reduce false positives and alert noise. Improved signal-to-noise ratio, accelerated incident triage, and enabled engineers to focus on high-impact reliability issues.

DevSecOps & Shift-Left Reliability Enablement:Owned the integration of automated security and quality controls into CI/CD pipelines, embedding reliability and compliance checks early in the delivery lifecycle. Reduced production risk while maintaining delivery velocity in regulated environments.

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
• Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate
• Microsoft Azure Architect Design
• Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions
• VMware Certified Professional
• Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Application Development
• HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
• LogicMonitor Certified Associate
• PagerDuty Certified Foundational
• PagerDuty Certified API Specialty
• PagerDuty Certified Incident Responder
• New Relic Full Stack Certified
• Python Administrator
• Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist
• Microsoft Certified IT Professional
• Microsoft Certified Professional
• Microsoft Certified Implementing
• Virtualization with Windows Server Hyper-V and System Center
• Microsoft Certified Server