Vijay Arivuchelvam

VIJAY ARIVUCHELVAM E-Mail:--Website: https://vijay.works Phone: - IT MANAGEMENT Networking Administration | Systems Administration | Cloud Administration Location Preference: Chennai, Bangalore, Singapore, Malaysia, Middle East Red Hat Certified Professional, offering nearly 20 years (Including Freelance & Organisational) of experience in: Network/System AdministrationTechnical Support Design, Implementation, & Maintenance Planning & SchedulingResource Management Technical Support Systems AnalysisTeam ManagementIT Help Desk Proficient in monitoring & consolidating relevant operational KPIs & SLA compliance as input to customer operations and SLA reporting Expertise in supervising high-severity incidents escalated by technical representatives to ensure service availability with minimal delay Excels in managing functions related to Network Administration, LAN/WAN Design & Implementation, Configuration, Troubleshooting and Network Performance Tuning Proven success in managing several IT infrastructure projects and delivering consulting, & business critical services for data centre set-up, rationalization, migration and disaster recovery Proven capability to manage multiple large, complex and highly integrated project, implementation, or technical consulting projects simultaneously in a technical environment Effective leader with excellent motivational skills to sustain growth momentum while motivating peak individual performances PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Nov’ 17 – Present Upwork, Fiverr and Freelancer Freelance Technologies: Cloud –Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Zoho, Wordpress, Woocommerce and G-Suite Hosting, Migration, Wordpress, Apache Tuning, Security Hardening, Linux, Mail Servers and more.. Key Result Areas: Creating cloud environment as per client requirement in Azure, AWS or customer defined cloud service. Managing the design, installation, commissioning, maintenance, modification, & troubleshooting of Virtual Machines and required services and software’s. Delivering maintenance support & responding to outages during off-hour within establishing Service Level Agreements (SLAs) Oct’ 15 – Nov’17 Inthree Access Services Pvt. Ltd., Chennai as Infrastructure Manager - IT Technologies: Cloud - Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and G-Suite; Local - WAN Load-balancing, N-Computing (Thin Client Deployment), Local Data-centre running Linux and windows servers, Local Backup storage (NAS).Hosting E-Commerce WebSite. AWS (Workspace, Lightsail, EC2, S3, RDS, Aurora, SNS, SQS, SES, Lambda and IAM). GCS (Compute engine, SQL, Storage and VPC Network) Linux (DHCP, DNS, Apache, OpenSSL(HSTS, Site Grading), DDOS, MySQL, Postfix, Firewall, NFS, Samba, Shell Scripting…) Windows (DHCP, DNS, RDS, AD, Group Polices ...) LAMP Stack, Magento, and other web related services. Postfix Mail Server with Rain loop Interface. Thin client and Zero client environment with Domain login. Key Result Areas: Leading a team of engineers (L1 & L2) for providing support in case of any incident, change, and preventive action required with an aim to maintain 99% SLA Managing the design, installation, commissioning, maintenance, modification, & troubleshooting of systems & networks Rendering service as a Technical Support and managing reactive & proactive problem tickets for both the accounts across the globe based on ITIL standard Delivering network maintenance support & responding to outages during off-hour within establishing Service Level Agreements (SLAs) Developing & maintaining a network recovery plan for all systems to include both a regular backup schedule and tested process for data restoration Supervising high-severity incidents to ensure service availability with minimal delay and working towards ensuring smooth operations of the infrastructure environment Managing all aspects of IT Operations including Hardware (Server & Network) Management, Applications Management, Software Versions / Patches Management, Service Level Management, Compliance (Systems Operations), Back-up Management & Contingency Planning, IT Asset Management and Datacentre Set-up Highlights: Migrated physical servers to VMWare platform which led to cost reduction and ease of administration Worked at the Data Centre; ensured 99.99% uptime of high-end production servers and Storage Area Network (SAN) with Net Backup environment Provided network and phone system administration for 100 users and 15 servers Maintained nearly 100% uptime through measures such as stable update, & periodic maintenance Prepared disaster recovery plans for the network and security devices; interfaced with vendors for network and security products Jun’ 96 – Sep’ 2015 Freelancer - Network Infrastructure and Server Installation & Maintenance Technologies: System and Network Admin: Windows 3.1 – Windows 10, Windows Server 2003 – Windows Server 2008, Red Hat Enterprises Server 5.4 – 7.3, Fedora 15 - 22, CentOS 5.4 – 7.3 Programmer: FoxPro Dos & Windows Virtual Machine: VMware, Oracle Virtual Box, AWS, Azure, GCS. Project Works: Web Projects (PHP & MySQL), Infra and Accounting Software Projects. Technology Assistant: Providing software and hardware solutions based on client requirements. AWS (EC2, S3, RDS). Linux (DHCP, DNS, Apache, MySQL, Postfix, Firewall, NFS, Samba,…) Windows (DHCP, DNS, RDS, Domain Controller, Group Polices ...) Key Result Areas: Interacting with the client’s Business and IT teams to gather, define, clarify and refine requirements; guiding the architecture and design of applications Delivering constant support for installation & administration of various range of servers, applications, desktops, laptops & peripherals, database, and security Defining and aligning the technical solution based on the functional requirements (i.e. specify the customizing/technical specifications for development) Preparing, reviewing & validating functional specification and handing over to technical team for development ACADEMIC DETAILS BBA distance education from Madurai Kamaraj University in 1999 PTSM from (NIIT), (Professional Diploma in Software Technology & Systems Management) in 1997 PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) 7, 2014 – 2017 Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) 6 – 2012 – 2015 Red Hat Certificate No.:- PERSONAL DETAILS Date of Birth: 26th March 1976 Languages Known: Tamil & English Address: No.11, Second Floor, 1st Cross Street, Bharathi Nagar, LB Road, Thiruvanmiyur, Chennai - 600041