Karthik Karuppiah
Frederick,Maryland
Summary
Infrastructure and Cloud Engineer with over 16 years of hands-on experience in Unix/Linux administration and server-based operating systems. Demonstrated expertise in Nutanix, VMware, NetApp Storage, Kubernetes, OpenShift, and AWS cloud platforms, with a strong practical understanding of enterprise-scale infrastructure environments. Highly skilled in managing large-scale systems, performance optimization, vulnerability management, and troubleshooting complex technical issues to deliver stable, secure, and high-availability solutions
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
13
13
Certification
Work History
Tech Architecture Associate Manager
Accenture
01.2012 - Current
- Architected and delivered multi-cloud and hybrid cloud solutions across AWS, Azure, Oracle Cloud, Private Cloud and on-prem platforms, spanning Linux, Windows, virtualization, storage, backup, DR (AWS DRS), and databases.
- Owned end-to-end cloud architecture and migrations, driving DevOps automation and lifecycle support for enterprise customer environments.
- Led large-scale application modernization to AWS, achieving 60% cost reduction and improved scalability using native cloud services.
- Directed enterprise data center operations, supporting 12,000+ Linux/UNIX servers across on-prem, virtualized, and cloud infrastructures.
- Provided strategic operational leadership, enforcing process governance, optimizing workloads, and ensuring high-availability service delivery.
- Led enterprise vulnerability remediation across 12,000+ Linux and Windows systems, achieving a 90% month-over-month reduction in critical vulnerabilities through risk-based patching and mitigation.
- Managed the vulnerability management lifecycle using Tenable and Qualys, leveraging Red Hat Satellite and BigFix for automated remediation, reporting API-driven dashboard metrics.
EXECUTIVE
TATA ELXSI
06.2010 - 01.2012
- Architected and led a large-scale data center migration, transitioning 150+ physical servers and 1,300+ virtual Linux guests to a modern VMware-based infrastructure integrated with HP UNIX and Red Hat Linux systems.
- Modernized legacy platforms by implementing VMware virtualization and disaster recovery solutions (VMware SRM), migrating 300+ HP-UX, AIX, Solaris, and Red Hat Linux servers while improving availability, automation, and business continuity.
- Designed and delivered virtualization, EMC and NetApp storage and data protection solutions for Infrastructure environments, including multi-site architectures and disaster recovery planning.
- Being a technical operation expert, SME with deep skills in Unix & Linux Infrastructure platform design, solution, architecting, and implementation, consolidation, support and disaster recovery, playing an active technical expert role for the Infrastructure solution delivery teams guiding / mentoring and helping them with the day to day activities.
System Administrator
Cerulean Information Technology Private Ltd
11.2009 - 06.2010
- Managed and optimized enterprise IT infrastructure, supporting Linux and Windows server environments, virtualization platforms, storage, networking, and application services to ensure high availability, performance, and reliability.
- Designed, deployed, and administered critical services including email systems, web and application servers, DNS/DHCP, security controls, monitoring, backup, and disaster recovery solutions across on-prem and virtualized environments.
- Automated and secured infrastructure operations through scripting, centralized monitoring, firewall and network configurations, and proactive troubleshooting, consistently improving system efficiency, stability, and operational resilience.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Electronics And Communications Engineering
Anna University
Trichy, Tamilnadu04-2008
Skills
- Unix/Linux Administration - Expert
- Cloud Computing - Experienced
- Kubernetes - Experienced
- Proficient in Nutanix - Experienced
- Infrastructure Design - Experienced
- Azure cloud solutions - Experienced
- Oracle Cloud - Experienced
- VMware - Experienced
- NetApp data storage - Experienced
- DevOps - Experienced
- Data Migration - Experienced
- Automation - Experienced
- Data center solutions - Experienced
- Team leadership - Experienced
Certification
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
- Certification of Kubernetes Administrator, CKA
- RHCE Certified in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7/5
- SAFe 5 Agilist - SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework), SAFe
- Generative AI Leader Certification
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2025 Generative AI Professional
- Nutanix Certified Professional 6.10
- Azure Fundamentals
- NetApp Certified Data Administrator
- VMware Certified Professional 4.1
- MCSA + Messaging with Specialization in Exchange server
- MCTS Certified in Windows 2008 Server
- ITIL Foundation 2011 Certified
Timeline
Tech Architecture Associate Manager
Accenture
01.2012 - Current
EXECUTIVE
TATA ELXSI
06.2010 - 01.2012
System Administrator
Cerulean Information Technology Private Ltd
11.2009 - 06.2010
Bachelor of Science - Electronics And Communications Engineering
Anna University