Senior DevOps & SRE Platform Engineer

DINESH SATHE

Senior DevOps Engineer Site Reliability Platform Engineering

+91-865******* *********@*****.*** linkedin.com/in/dinesh-sathe-8500b651 Sion East, Mumbai - 22, Maharashtra, India Nationality: Indian PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Results-driven Senior DevOps Engineer with 12+ years of experience architecting and operating large-scale, highly available platform engineering solutions across fintech, banking, media, and telecom sectors. Proven track record of driving 60% reduction in operational overhead through automation, achieving 99.9%+ uptime for platforms serving millions of concurrent users, and leading multi-cloud adoption across Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Azure. Skilled in Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), Kubernetes orchestration, CI/CD pipeline design, and embedding AI-powered tooling into engineering workflows to boost team productivity by 30%.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Market Pulse Pvt Ltd Mumbai, India Fintech [ 08/2023 – 07/2026 ] Senior DevOps Engineer

Project: Punch – Fintech Cloud & Infrastructure Platform Stack: AWS, GCP, Azure, Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Prometheus, Alertmanager, Grafana, Elasticsearch, Datadog, New Relic, Nginx, Apache, Bash, Python

AI Stack: Claude (Anthropic), Claude Tag, Model Context Protocol (MCP), ChatGPT, Gemini Key Achievements:

• Architected and led a zero-downtime, multi-cloud infrastructure platform spanning AWS, GCP, and on-premise data centers, sustaining 99.9%+ uptime for a fintech platform handling mission-critical financial workloads.

• Orchestrated containerized workloads on Kubernetes (EKS/ECS) with GitOps-driven deployments via ArgoCD, enabling consistent, auditable, and repeatable releases across all production environments.

• Drove automation initiatives that cut manual operational workload by ~60%, redirecting ~15 engineer-hours per week toward product feature delivery.

• Designed and enforced security policies, role-based access controls (RBAC/IAM), and regulatory compliance frameworks across all hosted platforms.

• Maintained 99.9%+ availability through proactive observability pipelines, alerting rules, and documented incident response runbooks, reducing mean time to recovery (MTTR) by 40%.

• Integrated AI-assisted tooling (Claude, ChatGPT) into DevOps workflows for script generation, pipeline diagnostics, and IaC scaffolding, increasing team throughput by 30%.

• Designed an AI-driven incident debugging pipeline connecting Prometheus/Alertmanager alerts to Claude (Anthropic) via Slack and the Model Context Protocol (MCP), automating root-cause analysis across live metrics and Elasticsearch logs directly within on-call workflows.

Leadership Experience:

• Mentored engineers on Docker, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, and GitHub Actions, Documentation etc increasing team's self-sufficiency.

• Participated in hiring interviews and contributed to onboarding documentation for new team members.

• Coordinated with product and engineering stakeholders to align infrastructure priorities with release deadlines. Xoriant Solutions Pvt Ltd Pune, India Banking [ 12/2021 – 07/2023 ] Senior Software Engineer – DevOps

Project: Apple Card – Goldman Sachs (US)

Stack: Terraform, Amazon Web Services (ELB, EC2, VPC, S3, IAM), Bamboo, GitLab CI/CD, Bitbucket, CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Bash

Key Achievements:

• Engineered reusable Terraform modules for six core AWS resource types, cutting environment provisioning time by 50% and enforcing infrastructure consistency across teams.

• Built and maintained Bamboo and GitLab CI/CD pipelines supporting 10+ delivery teams, accelerating release cadence and improving deployment reliability.

• Led end-to-end Bitbucket-to-GitLab repository migration for 30+ repositories and upgraded Terraform provider versions, reducing technical debt and improving codebase maintainability.

• Established full-stack observability using CloudWatch, Prometheus, and Grafana dashboards, reducing mean-time-to-detect

(MTTD) for production incidents by 35%.

Quantiphi Analytics Solution Pvt Ltd Mumbai, India Insurance [ 04/2021 – 12/2021 ] Senior Platform Engineer

Project: Aflac (US) – Cloud Platform Support

Stack: Amazon Web Services, Linux, Bash, Python, Datadog Key Achievements:

• Served as Tier-3 escalation lead for production incidents, partnering with Level 1/Level 2 support teams and AWS technical support to drive root-cause analysis with average resolution times under 2 hours.

• Managed on-call rotations and coordinated directly with client stakeholders, maintaining SLA compliance and sustaining high client satisfaction scores throughout the engagement.

• Resolved 100+ complex platform reliability issues over 8 months, improving overall system uptime and reducing business disruption impact.

Network18 Media & Investment Ltd Mumbai, India Financial & Media [ 06/2018 – 04/2021 ] Manager – Cloud & Infrastructure

Project: Moneycontrol & News18

Stack: Amazon Web Services (EC2, ELB, Auto Scaling, S3, RDS, VPC, CloudFront, CloudWatch, Route53), Linux, Nginx, Apache, Bash, Python, VMware, Prometheus, Grafana

Key Achievements:

• Owned deployment automation and lifecycle operations for two of India's highest-traffic digital platforms, Moneycontrol and News18, collectively serving tens of millions of monthly active users.

• Sustained 99.9%+ uptime, platform performance, and security posture across both properties during peak traffic events including market open hours and breaking news cycles.

• Optimised cross-platform incident response workflows, cutting mean time to resolution (MTTR) by 45% for Severity-1 outages.

• Operated a hybrid hosting model combining AWS-hosted workloads with on-premise systems, ensuring business continuity with no single point of failure.

Capgemini Pvt Ltd Mumbai, India Automotive Manufacturing [ 01/2018 – 06/2018 ] Consultant

Project: PSA Group – France

Stack: Linux, CFT File Transfer Tool, Bash scripting, VMware Key Achievements:

• Administered production and pre-production Linux server fleets for PSA Group; diagnosed and resolved critical system faults with minimal service disruption.

• Deployed and configured CFT cross-system file transfer tooling, enabling reliable data exchange between PSA's European manufacturing systems.

• Authored Bash automation scripts that streamlined pipeline operations, eliminating manual intervention steps and reducing handover time between shifts.

Global Telecom Limited Mumbai, India Telecom [ 09/2013 – 12/2017 ] Linux System Administrator

Project: Internal IT & Network Support

Stack: Linux, Amazon Web Services, VMware, Mithi Skyconnect Mail Server, Windows Server, Bash Key Achievements:

• Managed on-premise physical servers, hosted virtual machines (VMware), and early AWS environments supporting company- wide internal operations across 200+ users.

• Deployed and maintained Mithi Skyconnect enterprise mail servers both on-premise and on AWS, achieving high-availability email delivery for all business units.

• Installed and configured network services and infrastructure, ensuring internal IT availability and minimising downtime during a 4-year tenure.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Public Cloud Platforms: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure, DigitalOcean, Linode

Infrastructure-as-Code: Terraform, Ansible

Container Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, ArgoCD CI/CD & DevOps Tooling: Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Bamboo, GitHub Actions Observability & Monitoring: Prometheus, Alertmanager, Grafana, CloudWatch, Datadog, New Relic, Elasticsearch AI-Assisted Engineering: Claude (Anthropic), Model Context Protocol (MCP), ChatGPT, Gemini Scripting & Programming: Bash, Python, YAML, JSON

Web & Proxy Servers: Nginx, Apache

Databases: MySQL, SQL Server

Operating Systems & Virtualisation: Linux, Windows Server, VMware Methodologies & Practices: Hybrid Cloud Architecture, Microservices, GitOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Agile/Scrum

EDUCATION

Master of Science – Information Technology, Mumbai University, India 2018 Bachelor of Science – Computer Science, Mumbai University, India 2013 CERTIFICATES

Redhat 6 & 7 Certified Engineer

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Marathi: Native / Mother Tongue

English: Proficient (C2 Listening, C2 Reading, C1 Writing, C2 Speaking)

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