Arul Xavier

OCI-certified Cloud Infrastructure Consultant with 5 years of hands-on experience architecting and administering Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) environments. Expertise spans compute, storage, networking, IAM/IDCS, and security compliance. Proven ability to automate infrastructure using Terraform and OCI CLI and optimize Universal Credits consumption through resource planning.

Adept at configuring auditing, alerting, and logging to ensure governance and compliance across multi-cloud environments.

Oracle Consultant I - Growexx - Ahmedabad, India

(2025-11)

• Design and implement secure OCI solutions including VCNs, subnets, IGW/NGW/SGW, NSGs, security lists, and public load balancers across availability and fault domains
• Manage and optimize IAM policies, including advanced conditional access configurations.
• Provision and manage compartments, Compute instances, Block/Object Storage, and Networking components; configure auditing, alerting, and OCI Logging to ensure compliance.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using Terraform and OCI CLI.
• Configure and manage OCI-based SFTP servers and integrations with Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC).
• Monitor OCI service usage, manage auto-scaling configurations, and optimize Universal Credits consumption including message packs through usage analytics and resource planning.
• Implement and manage backup strategies and cross-region replication for high availability, support multi-cloud and hybrid cloud implementations.

Cloud Administrator - VHS Consulting - Bangalore, India

(2024-10 - 2025-04)

• Designed and deployed AWS EC2 instances with secure VPC configurations and security groups.
• Implemented site-to-site VPN connectivity between OCI and AWS Transit Gateway for hybrid cloud integration.
• Managed OCI cloud resources (Compute, Networking, OIC, OAC, OCIDI) with focus on IAM policy configuration, NSG/security list management, and security compliance.
• Automated infrastructure provisioning using Terraform and OCI CLI, reducing deployment time by 30%; performed security reviews, patch management, and vulnerability mitigation.

Technical Consultant - Eappsys Info Solutions - Hyderabad, India

(2021-07 - 2024-10)

• Delivered end-to-end cloud solutions in OCI, including compute, networking, and storage.
• Enhanced security by implementing OCI IAM policies across multiple identity domains.
• Migrated and upgraded Edge security policies to Web Application Firewall (WAF) for protection.
• Administered Oracle databases (CDB & PDB) and optimized performance for production environments.
• Led automation initiatives using Terraform, achieving consistent and reliable infrastructure deployment.
• Configured OpenVPN servers for secure database access

Technical Support Engineer - Finecons Pvt. Ltd. - Chennai, India

(2020-12 - 2021-04)

• Installed, configured, and troubleshot OS (Windows 7/8/10), hardware, and LAN/WAN networks.
• Managed network switches, printers, and TCP/IP configurations.
• Provided end-user support and resolved system and network-related issues
• Provided desktop/laptop troubleshooting and IT asset inventory management.

IT Support Intern - Gulf Contracting Company - Doha, Qatar

(2020-09 - 2020-10)

• Provided desktop/laptop troubleshooting and IT asset inventory management.
• Troubleshooting network connectivity in LAN/WAN environment.
• Configuring network switches.
• Printer and network printer installation.
• Managing and configuring TCP/IP addressing Sub Netting, and local network sharing

B.Tech - Information Technology - Jeppiaar Engineering College, Anna University (2019)