Pratul Sharma

Senior DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer with 12+ years building and operating highly available, low-latency Linux and cloud infrastructure — the last 5 in high-frequency and crypto trading environments where uptime directly impacts P&L. Deep expertise in AWS and Azure, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, Salt), CI/CD and DevSecOps (IAM governance, secrets management, security automation), containerization (Docker, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes), and observability (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK). Track record of leading engineering teams, delivering large-scale cloud migrations, and automating operations for mission-critical 24/7 production systems.

Senior DevOps Engineer at Graviton Research Capital (2022-07 – Present)

• Engineer and operate mission-critical high-frequency trading infrastructure across 700+ production Linux nodes, sustaining stability across latency-sensitive trading systems.
• Administer the production AWS environment (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, Route53, CloudWatch, Security Groups), standardizing networking, IAM governance, and access controls across the platform.
• Designed Python and Bash automation and self-healing platform integrations (REST APIs, Slack) that reduced manual intervention by 30–40% and accelerated incident detection and remediation.
• Designing and implementing continuous configuration drift detection and enforcement across the fleet using Salt (scheduled state enforcement with event-driven beacons/reactors), with detect-and-alert safeguards on latency-critical trading hosts.
• Implemented and maintained CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Git, Azure DevOps) and containerized workloads with Docker and Docker Swarm, accelerating releases and reducing deployment errors.
• Built centralized observability with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, and CloudWatch across the production fleet, including CI/CD pipeline-failure monitoring, enabling real-time anomaly detection and faster incident triage.
• Lead 24/7 production incident response and root-cause analysis, and deliver security remediation, vulnerability management, and system hardening for audit and compliance.
• Support crypto trading infrastructure and market-data distribution systems for live production trading environments.

Senior Systems Engineer at APT Portfolio (2021-06 – 2022-07)

• Managed hybrid infrastructure spanning on-premises, AWS, and Azure for business-critical production systems.
• Automated infrastructure provisioning and configuration management with Terraform, Ansible, and AWX, improving deployment consistency and reducing manual setup.
• Implemented Infrastructure as Code practices that standardized environments and accelerated provisioning across teams.
• Deployed and supported containerized applications using Docker, and administered Linux platform operations and network troubleshooting.

Technical Lead at STMicroelectronics (2019-02 – 2021-06)

• Led a team of 14 engineers, overseeing complex infrastructure projects from initiation through successful delivery.
• Migrated the on-premises SAP HANA landscape to Microsoft Azure, deploying the full stack (Azure VMs, Load Balancers, Pacemaker, Gluster, and networking) and running high-availability and performance testing ahead of go-live.
• Developed Infrastructure as Code for on-premises and cloud environments using Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible, and Git, including module-based VM provisioning in Azure.
• Automated routine operations — database installation, filesystem extension, and user creation — through Jenkins pipelines, reducing manual effort.
• Led a data-center migration, managing the full server lifecycle (commission, administration, decommission) across RHEL and VMware, and drove Azure cost optimization.

Senior Systems Engineer at STMicroelectronics (2016-05 – 2019-01)

Graduate Engineer Trainee at HCL Technologies (2014-08 – 2016-04)

• Performed Linux administration, server provisioning, patch management, and storage administration for enterprise infrastructure.
• Supported infrastructure operations, monitoring, and troubleshooting across production systems.
• Contributed to incident management, production support, and system performance optimization alongside senior engineers.

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) in Electronics & Communication Engineering – HMR Institute of Technology & Management (GGSIPU) (2014)