Cloud & Linux Engineer specializing in Oracle Cloud (OCI), AWS, and database automation. I help teams run business-critical workloads with reliable infrastructure, clean automation, and strong observability.
I’m a hands-on Cloud & Linux Engineer with experience managing production servers for a large media organization. My day-to-day work includes provisioning infrastructure on OCI and AWS, designing backup and recovery strategies, and keeping Linux servers healthy, secure, and monitored.
I enjoy solving practical operations problems: slow databases, growing disk usage, failing services, and “it worked yesterday” issues. My approach is to combine strong fundamentals (Linux internals, networking, databases) with automation using Bash, Python, and containerization tools like Docker and Docker Compose.
Outside of work, I actively learn new technologies around DevOps, observability, and cloud-native design. I document my experiments and mini-projects so that I can reuse them and help others in the team move faster.
I focus on practical, production-ready engineering: keeping systems online, secure, and observable while reducing manual work using automation.
Designing and maintaining infrastructure on OCI and AWS, including compute instances, networking, security groups, and storage for high-availability applications.
Hardening, tuning, and troubleshooting Linux servers with MySQL/MariaDB and MongoDB for editorial and business systems.
Building reliable automation and observability with Bash/Python, Docker, Zabbix, and logging stacks to detect issues early.
The Hindu Group of Publications
The Hindu Group of Publications
A selection of real-world work where I’ve designed infrastructure, implemented automation, and set up monitoring for production services.
Deployed GLPI and MariaDB on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure using Docker Compose. The stack supports helpdesk workflows, asset tracking, and service requests for internal teams.
I designed the container layout, persistent volumes and backup routines, and tuned the database for predictable performance under peak usage.
Built a robust backup framework using Bash. The solution creates timestamped database dumps, compresses and rotates them, and integrates with monitoring for success/failure alerts.
This reduced manual backup effort and made restore testing easier across multiple MySQL and MariaDB instances.
Implemented Zabbix monitoring for Linux and database servers, including custom triggers for replication lag, disk usage, and service health checks.
These alerts enabled earlier detection of issues and reduced downtime for key editorial and content systems.
Foundations Certified
Computer Science
A few quick answers about how I work and the kind of roles I’m interested in.
I’m interested in roles related to Cloud Engineering, Linux System Administration, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering, where I can manage production infrastructure and contribute to automation and observability.
On a typical day I work with Linux (Ubuntu, Oracle Linux), MySQL/MariaDB, MongoDB, Docker, OCI and AWS services, along with Bash and Python for automation and Zabbix for monitoring.
Yes. I have experience moving on-premise applications and databases to OCI and AWS, planning cutovers, and setting up backups, monitoring, and rollback plans to keep downtime low.
I regularly write Bash and Python scripts for backup, cleanup, service checks, and deployment workflows. I prefer small, well-documented tools that other team members can easily maintain.
The easiest way is to email me at arunachalams204@gmail.com. You can also reach out via LinkedIn for professional collaborations.
I'm always open to discussing cloud infrastructure, DevOps challenges, or new opportunities.