Saravanan Sivarajan
Chennai
Summary
Dynamic Program Manager with extensive experience at HCL Technologies, excelling in project and operation management. Proven track record in disaster recovery strategies and compliance, achieving 100% SLA adherence. Adept at leading cross-functional teams and enhancing operational efficiency, while ensuring robust security and business continuity. Strong analytical and leadership skills drive successful outcomes.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Program Manager
Tata Consultancy Service Ltd
Chennai
08.2025 - Current
- Coordinated project timelines and resource allocation for multiple programs.
GROUP MANAGER
HCL Technologies Ltd.
Chennai
09.2013 - Current
- Company Overview: HCL Provides Integrated managed services to the client.
- Our Team’s responsibile to take care of end to end Infrastructure support, Application, Disaster Recovery Management & Business continuity for all their critical & non-critical applications as per the contract.
- Project & Operation project Manager for DC/DR/ Security & compliance.
- Worked on various migration, consolidation, installation, virtualization & HA disaster recovery solutions.
- Converting & Moderaization of DC by transforming the current environment to NGDC.
- Successfully completed transition of security & compliance tower created process /procedures of Security Operation Center (SIEM, CSM, CIR & VRM) End point solutions & Enterprise security solutions.
- Played key role in the disaster recovery transition project attain 100% expected CSLA/KSLA Compliances.
- Migrating security agent (falcon crowdsttrike to Fireeye) for all the geo locations US/EMEA & APAC.
- Disaster Recovery Exercise execution of all Critical applications on a yearly basis.
- Stablized the environment by moving all the legacy hardware to Converged sysytems & integrating charon emulators.
- Got multiple Live Wire award SPOT award for best performance.
- HCL Provides Integrated managed services to the client.
- Owning Lean CSI/ Rapid / Kaizen implementation Successfully in Merck for two years.
- Madurai Movement (Planned 50% movement to tier2 city as per the organizational initiatives; Attained 100 FTE in Merck Madurai).
- RBA/RPA (100% RBA; Productivity attained from year 2017 till 2019., Maintaining 30% effort hours over all; it is 20% for 2019).
- Attained 100% Sapience tool installation in Merck, Stack ranking new template initiation provided training to all the leads as a part of Naptol productivity project.attained ~70% of overall productivity till date.
- Managed cross-functional teams to enhance collaboration and streamline operations.
DR-System Manager (Datacenter Specialist)
IBM India Pvt Ltd
Chennai
04.2010 - 09.2013
- Company Overview: Bharti Airtel is the 3rd LARGEST wireless operator in the world, Present in 20 countries across Asia and Africa, More than 205 million subscribers.
- Managing 9 members of technical team which primarily involved in handling day to day BAU of two datacenters with approx 350 servers in two different locations.
- Taken end to end responsibilities of DR Datacenter including DR-Drills, right from creating Activity plan, Scope document, WI, co-ordination with domain heads/business for downtime & successfully executed more than 40 application Drills from Aug 2011 to till date.
- Handled four DR-DRILL on the same day with production downtime & completed within planned RTO without any single issue.
- Got Customer appreciation & appreciation from all the competency executives for the successful completion of DR-DRILLS & single local observation was not raised by the Audit team.
- Represented DR for the APBC & CORPORATE AUDIT, Completed successfully with good SAT rating & without any major observation.
- Playing key role in process improvement (PIP) and standardization.
- Conduct regular meeting with team members to discuss operational issues.
- Ownership taken for the TSRM-AIRTEL AFRICA Production project implementation in DR-Siruseri & completed successfully on time without any issues.
- Building and sharing technical Knowledge within team to ensure quality and high performance delivery.
- Bharti Airtel is the 3rd LARGEST wireless operator in the world, Present in 20 countries across Asia and Africa, More than 205 million subscribers.
SUPPORT SPECIALIST L3-SUPPORT IMS
HP Global Soft Pvt Ltd
Chennai
07.2006 - 04.2010
- I am part of 10 member L3 team that handles more than 600 HP-UX Servers.
- Day today activities are listed below.
- I am part of 21 member L3 team that handles more than 900 UNIX and Linux servers in combined.
- We have 200 very high business critical servers running on MC service guard & Continental Cluster, effectively monitoring overall functioning of process in terms of efficiency and effectiveness matrix and ensured that Service Level Agreements are adhered.
- My responsibilities include planning and executing changes, incident management, problem management, patching etc.
SYSTEM ENGINEER
WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES
Bangalore
04.2006 - 07.2006
- L2 SUPPORT
- DAILY BACKUPS
SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR
Net Connect Private Limited
Jaipur
02.2005 - 04.2006
- Company Overview: Worked for HP India Ltd., as an outsourced employee through Net connect.
- Providing the front-end support for Hardware and Operating System in data center.(HP-UX 11i V1/V2)
- Coordinating with HP Mission Critical Response center to implement new solutions.
- Configuration and troubleshooting of Data Protector backup and recovery.
- Monitoring the XP performance using XP performance advisor.
- Monitor the network performance.
- Software, Patch & File system management.
- Managing highly available NFS.
- Managing High Availability Cluster with MC Service Guard.
- Managing SAN and CISCO Switches.
- Managing ESL 9595 Library & TL180.
- Worked for HP India Ltd., as an outsourced employee through Net connect.
Customer Engg Trainee (OJT)
HCL Infosystems Ltd
Chandigarh
01.2003 - 02.2005
- Installation of Unix, Linux servers.
- Installation support was provided to the customer till the applications finally got tuned up.
- Remote and onsite assistance to customers.
- Responsible for 99.9% uptime possible for the configuration having UNIX Servers PUBLIC SECTOR CLIENTS LIKE L.I.C, CANARA BANK, PNB, NIC, B.S.N.L…ETC.
Education
Graduation - BE/Btech - Electronics & Telecommunication
MAHENDRA ENGINEERING COLLEGE
Vadugapalayam, Namakkal, India01.2001
Diploma -Technical - Polytechnic Diploma - Electronics/Telecommunication
NANJIAH LINGAMMAL POLYTECHNIC
Mettupalayam, India01.1997
Skills
- Project and operation management
- Data center oversight
- Unix and Linux administration
- Security & Compliance
- Service and security management
- Business continuity planning
- Disaster recovery strategies
- DR exercise coordination
- Compliance and information security
Visa Details
B1 US Business Visa
Certification
- HP-Certified System Administrator in HP-UX (HPUX-CSA)
- ITIL-V3 Certified professional
- AIX -7 Professional Certification
- Lean IT- Kaizen Certified
- TSOM Professional Certified
- CISM Certified
Current Work Location
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Technical Environment
HP RISC Servers: HP 9000 Series (C, D, K, L, RP 3410, 7410, 8400 and HP 9000 Superdomes), HP Proliant Servers: ML370, DL380, DL580 G5,G7, HP Itanium Servers: All type of HP Itanium Integrity Series (rx2620, rx4640 and HP Integrity Superdomes), IBM P5, P6, P7 Servers 9117-570, MMA, MMB & X-series (X-3650, X-3850) servers, Storage Arrays: XP1024 and XP512. EMC Clarion CX600, MSA 500, MSA2000 series DS8100, 8300, 8800, 4300, Backup Devices: ESL9595 TapeLibrary, DELL PowerVault LTO2, LTO3, DLT and Ultrium Drives., HP-UX 10.20, HP-UX 11.11, HP-UX 11.23, 11.31, Redhat Linux 4,5,6,7 & AIX 5.3, 6.1 & 7, Symantec EPP/ Symantec EE/FireEye HX & NX / Proof point / Falcon Crowd Strike / RSA Net Witness / Stealth Watch / Palo Alto Networks/ Qualys
Timeline
Program Manager
Tata Consultancy Service Ltd
08.2025 - Current
GROUP MANAGER
HCL Technologies Ltd.
09.2013 - Current
DR-System Manager (Datacenter Specialist)
IBM India Pvt Ltd
04.2010 - 09.2013
SUPPORT SPECIALIST L3-SUPPORT IMS
HP Global Soft Pvt Ltd
07.2006 - 04.2010
SYSTEM ENGINEER
WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES
04.2006 - 07.2006
SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR
Net Connect Private Limited
02.2005 - 04.2006
Customer Engg Trainee (OJT)
HCL Infosystems Ltd
01.2003 - 02.2005
Graduation - BE/Btech - Electronics & Telecommunication
MAHENDRA ENGINEERING COLLEGE
Diploma -Technical - Polytechnic Diploma - Electronics/Telecommunication
NANJIAH LINGAMMAL POLYTECHNIC
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