Vishal Muthal

About Vishal Muthal

As a DevOps and cloud engineering leader with 18+ years across system analysis, application development, and large-scale infrastructure, the focus is on building reliable, secure, high-performing platforms for banking and financial services.Combining deep hands-on expertise with team leadership, the goal is to drive automation, resilience, and measurable business outcomes in complex, regulated environmentsDevOps/SRE/Principal Engineer with experience in development, implementation, and operations across Linux, Windows, and hybrid environments. AWS Certified Solutions Architect with strong experience designing and delivering cloud-native and migration architectures for mission-critical applications. Proven track record as a DevOps Infrastructure Architect leading end-to-end migration of retail online banking stacks from legacy data centers to AWS, improving scalability, availability, and operational efficiencyStrong domain knowledge in Investment, Retail Banking, including Risk Management, Equities, Derivatives, and multiple asset classes, enabling tighter business–technology alignment. ITIL Service Operations Intermediate certified, focused on strengthening processes, closing control gaps, and reducing operational risk for live infrastructure. Experienced people manager for FTE and vendor teams, building high-performing DevOps/SRE teams and a culture of continuous improvementExtensive experience with distributed version control and release management (GIT, SVN, Bitbucket, GitLab). Proficient with: Deployment & CI/CD – Harness, Jenkins, GitLab CI, TeamCity, uDeploy, Terraform, Chef; Build & Artifacts – Maven, Gradle, Nexus; Monitoring & Logging – ITRS, Nagios, Splunk, ELK/Elastic Stack. Strong in deployment automation and CI/CD pipeline design using Jenkins, Terraform, TeamCity, GitLab, and Chef with cloud-native toolingSolid experience with Apache, Nginx, Tomcat, WebSphere, IIS, and HTML5 web applications. Good exposure to JMS, SOA, web services, and middleware platforms such as MQ, Solace, and Kafka. Skilled in evaluating, running POCs, and implementing open-source technologies to modernize and optimize infrastructureExperienced in ETL, SQL monitoring, analysis, troubleshooting, and Oracle monitoring using OEM. Strong understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, firewalls, load balancers, routers, and caching for high-availability systems. Advanced log management expertise with Splunk and ELK, including configuration, dashboards, visualizations, saved searches, and operational reporting to enhance observability and incident response.

Experience

1. Principal Engineer - VP

   Barclays

   Jan 2026 — Present · Pune, IN

   Architect and drive DevOps strategy across cloud platforms, ensuring high availability, security, and automation for corporate banking and payments workflows. Lead platform engineering initiatives, mentoring teams on CI/CD pipelines, IaC, and observability to accelerate digital delivery at scale.

Education

• Diploma in Mechanical Engineering

  DME, Mechanical Engineering

  2002 — 2004

• Government Engineering College Aurangabad

  Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Mechanical Engineering

  2005 — 2007

Skills

• Nagios
• Jira
• Oracle Sql Developer
• Python
• Product Development
• Production Support
• Perl Script
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Release Engineering
• Banking
• Maven
• Risk Management
• Udeploy
• Itil Service Operation Intermediate
• Web Applications
• Xml
• Sql Pl
• Autosys
• Unix
• Windows Server
• Itil V3 Foundations Certified
• Investment Banking
• Network Load Balancing
• Pvcs
• Oracle
• Requirements Analysis
• Shell Scripting
• Control-M
• Apache
• Core Banking
• Pl/Sql
• Release Management
• Eclipse
• Batch Processing
• Technical Support
• Tomcat
• Trade Finance
• Jconsole
• Red Hat Linux
• Solaris