Gaurav Gupta — DevOps Engineer

With 15 years of extensive experience in IT, I have honed my expertise in managing critical security incidents, information security operations, and large-scale infrastructures. My journey has been marked by leadership roles in driving large-scale projects that enhance security visibility and site reliability, particularly at LinkedIn, where I have played a pivotal role in shaping the security landscape. Currently, I am leading the Incident Response team in Bangalore, where I am responsible for overseeing all major incidents driven from this location. My role involves managing incidents end-to-end, conducting thorough postmortems, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to implement long-term remediation strategies for security issues. I am also deeply involved in continually improving our security posture, both in the cloud and on-premises, by identifying vulnerabilities and ensuring they are addressed promptly by the relevant teams. I am also driving critical projects for improving security visibility and forensics at LinkedIn across hundreds of thousands of linux hosts like implementation of eBPF based security visibility and collection of forensics from K8s and Linux machines. My strong foundation in cybersecurity incidents, network security monitoring, and system design, combined with my experience as an Incident Commander for major incidents, has allowed me to drive impactful changes. I am passionate about continuing to grow in roles that challenge me to lead, innovate, and drive security excellence.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cybersecurity and IT Infrastructure expert with extensive experience in incident response and security operations.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 16 yrs 8 mos

Skills

Cybersecurity
Security Incident Response
Incident Management
Security Monitoring
Collaboration

Career Highlights

15 years of experience in IT and cybersecurity.
Led critical incident response initiatives at LinkedIn.
Expert in improving security visibility and posture.

Work Experience

Senior Staff Information Security Engineer (11 mos)

Staff Information Security Engineer (3 yrs 6 mos)

Senior Information Security Engineer (1 yr 10 mos)

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (2 yrs 8 mos)

Site Reliability Engineer (1 yr 6 mos)

NOC Engineer (2 yrs 5 mos)

Cognizant Technology Solutions

Sr. System Executive (8 mos)

Tech Mahindra

Unix System Administrator (2 yrs 2 mos)

Athena Inc.

Software Developer (11 mos)

Education

B.E at Rajiv Gandhi Prodyogiki Vishwavidyalaya

Gaurav Gupta

DevOps Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India16 yrs 8 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

15 years of experience in IT and cybersecurity.
Led critical incident response initiatives at LinkedIn.
Expert in improving security visibility and posture.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cybersecurity and IT Infrastructure expert with extensive experience in incident response and security operations.

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Skills

Core Skills

CybersecuritySecurity Incident ResponseIncident ManagementSecurity MonitoringCollaboration

Other Skills

Apache KafkaAzure SentinelCyber Threat Hunting (CTH)Cybersecurity Incident ResponseITILInformation SecurityIntrusion DetectionKubernetesLeadershipLinuxLinux System AdministrationMalware DetectionMicrosoft Defender Advanced Threat protectionMySQLOperating Systems

About

Experience

6 roles

Senior Staff Information Security Engineer

Apr 2025 – Present · 11 mos

CybersecuritySecurity Incident ResponseThreat huntingThreat DetectionMalware DetectionInformation Security

Staff Information Security Engineer

Promoted

Oct 2021 – Apr 2025 · 3 yrs 6 mos

Responsibilities:
Currently leading the Bangalore Incident Response team as technical and operations Leads
Primarily responsible for driving incidents from Bangalore as Incident Commander.
Running operations, Reducing toil, improving processes, Improving work Life balance by identifying noisy alerts and giving back feedback to Detection engineering team for getting them fixed.
Either leading or contributing critical projects for improving visibility and security posture of the entire company on various front like cloud, datacenters, endpoints and forensics.
Impact:
Reduced toil, improved processes and work life balance for the teams in Bangalore and US.
Improved security telemetry visibility in linux servers leveraging eBPF based metrics collection.
Structured oncall process and handovers resulted in huge improvement in collaboration between US and BLR teams.

Malware DetectionCybersecurity Incident ResponseCybersecurityThreat huntingThreat DetectionCyber Threat Hunting (CTH)+1

Senior Information Security Engineer

Nov 2019 – Sep 2021 · 1 yr 10 mos

TLDR; Prevent LinkedIn from the bad bad guys !
After spending good 10 years in SRE and system admin. Decided to take learning at next level and learn more about Security. There is no better place to learn than inside of LinkedIn itself. Took career transformation here after 6.5 years in SRE.
Working as Sr. Security Engineer in Detection Engineering, Threat mitigation and Incident response Team. Working towards writing proactive threat hunting detections and automated response. Responsible for mitigating any active cyberattacks at Linkedin. Its very challenging to look at entire LinkedIn's internal, external system, applications, databases, any devices present and figure out IOC's and hunt them down, triage and contain them. Being top of all vulnerabilities that are existing out in wild and make sure that LinkedIn is safe from all those bad bad guys..

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Mar 2017 – Nov 2019 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Continuing to handle all search at LinkedIn. I am also handling Feed at LinkedIn now. Involved in day to day operations like fixing and creating alerting for new verticals that gets added into search and feed. Reviewing design documents, RB's, code. Writing a lot of automation using Python, Vuejs, Golang and javascript.
Ensure site stability, load tests, configuration management, capacity planning and analysis, redlining services, maintenance of current services, gc tuning...
As an Sr. SRE, I am owner for all the search and feed @ LinkedIn and involved with everything which is related to feed and search as mentioned above and much more.

Site Reliability Engineer

Promoted

Sep 2015 – Mar 2017 · 1 yr 6 mos

#) Working as Search SRE at LinkedIn. Working on challenging search technology to make search better, fast and relevant at LinkedIn.
#) JVM tuning and scalability planning for search infrastructure.
#) Collaborating closely with Dev's for changes going in production and taking care of critical production search issues.
#) Working on Galene infrastructure developed ( https://engineering.linkedin.com/search/did-you-mean-galene ) at LinkedIn that powers our Search technology.

NOC Engineer

Apr 2013 – Sep 2015 · 2 yrs 5 mos

NOC or siteops is first line of defense in any company. I was part of this critical team to monitor alerts and outages for entire LinkedIN production infrastructure. The team monitor the all critical alerts, troubleshoots for initial remediation and then triages to the primary SRE owner.
I was also responsible for driving all outages end to end, right from creating the issue to driving the postmortem of the issue. Automation using Python, flask. Troubleshooting performance and latencies issues. Deployment of codes, rollbacks, traffic shifts were some of the primary responsibility of the role.
All together keeping LinkedIn up and working all time.

Cognizant technology solutions

Sr. System Executive

Aug 2012 – Apr 2013 · 8 mos · Pune Area, India

From Telecom domain moved into banking and finance domain. Providing Global support for all three APAC, AMER and EMEA regions in 24x7 from offshore to Barclays Capital and Formerly Lehman brothers in US. Supporting end to end for more than 20000+ servers on almost every Solaris and Linux issues.
That included Linux boxes hosted on HP proliant hardware, Sun Solaris 8-10 on x86 and SPARC boxes. Working on change management, event management and problem management for hardware and OS issues on box like disk , HBA, battery, CPU,DIMMS replacements.
Job scheduling with Autosys. Storage allocation, Storage migration, up-gradation, Configuration changes on server, performance tuning are also some parts of my work. Backup Restoration using TSM client.
Package installations and Configurations of Autosys, BCSplunkforwarder, Apache, Mysql, PHP, VSFTPD and many more....
Worked on Vertias Volume Manager, Linux LVM, Solaris Volume manager for volume management on servers and maintaining High Availibility with Veritas cluster server. Failing over service groups and resources.

Tech mahindra

Unix System Administrator

Jun 2010 – Aug 2012 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Pune Area, India

Worked as Unix System Administrator (Operations) with TechM in event management operations center.
Here I was responsible for Managing almost more than 30k unix servers AT & T servers with various UNIX Flavours ( IBM- AIX, SUN SOLARIS, LINUX, HP-UX).
Working in Production environment with Mission critical applications in which trying to minimize the downtime for unix servers. Following strict ITIL procedure for work for change management and Incident Management and Event Management.
Users management , Process management, Handling Hardware issues were some of my work areas. Live up-gradation and migration for OS with maintaining back up of the production data.
Logical partitioning of disks using Solaris SVM and Working on industry recognized tools like BMC remedy, IBM Netcool and Veritas Cluster Manager.
Also worked on Veritas clustered environment and checking the servers fail-over and application fail-over during server down issues.