Arvind Shanmugam
Senior Azure Sql Database Administrator @Tata Consultancy Services
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WORK HISTORY
Senior Azure Sql Database Administrator @Tata Consultancy Services
Chennai, IN
A highly skilled Database Administrator with extensive experience in administering, monitoring, and supporting Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL databases across development, testing, and production environments, ensuring high availability, performance, and security. Possess deep expertise in PostgreSQL internals, including Auto Vacuum tuning, memory optimization parameters, and query execution planning, enabling efficient database performance and stability. Proven ability to design, implement, and validate robust backup, restore, and disaster recovery (DR) strategies, including native backups, Recovery Services Vault (RSV), point-in-time recovery, and various recovery models to ensure business continuity. Strong experience in managing SQL workloads in cloud environments, particularly Azure IaaS and PaaS services such as Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instances, with a focus on scalability, reliability, and cost optimization. Hands-on experience with monitoring and observability tools including Grafana, CloudWatch, and New Relic to proactively identify performance bottlenecks and system issues.Experienced in proactive database monitoring, including tracking disk space utilization, validating backup success, troubleshooting failed backups, and performing database restores with precision. Hands-on experience in configuring and managing high availability solutions such as Always On Availability Groups, including setup, failover management, and troubleshooting. Actively participated in planned failovers during patching activities at SQL Server and Windows levels, ensuring zero or minimal downtime. Skilled in scheduling and maintaining SQL Server Agent jobs, alerts, and maintenance plans to automate routine administrative tasks and improve operational efficiency. Proven ability in implementing database auditing solutions to meet compliance and governance requirements with other Azure SQL SERVER DBA roles and responsibilities.
EDUCATION
Rajalakshmi Institute of Technology
Bachelor's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering
ABOUT ARVIND SHANMUGAM
Competent IT Professional with a qualitative experience of 9+years in supporting business critical Production servers, Nonproduction servers and resolving issues efficiently within the Service Level Agreements and Implementation of Client /Database Server environment and Database Administration.
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