LAHIRU WIJESURIYA
Berlin
Summary
Energetic and responsible DevOps/Cloud enthusiast with more than five years of professional experience in Cloud, Infrastructure and DevOps practices with a diverse skill set ranging across different cloud providers and containerization technologies. Strong technical skills in cloud computing, Linux-based systems, CICD, scripting, and infrastructure automation enables me in keeping up with the trending Cloud and DevOps practices. Passionate in using my skill set and technical knowledge I have gathered over the years to solve problems and build solutions.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Infrastructure Engineer
HeyJobs GmbH
Berlin
11.2023 - Current
- Working on building a new cloud platform engineering team.
- Enhancement of security in the existing cloud platform.
- Automation of cloud infrastructure.
Associate Technical Lead
Mad Mobile
Colombo
03.2023 - 10.2023
- Cost optimization of the existing infrastructure.
- Security improvements in the existing cloud infrastructure.
- Developing new Landing zone for the organization.
- Core technologies involved are AWS, Terraform, Python, Jenkins CICD.
Senior Cloud Engineer
London Stock Exchange Group
Colombo
09.2021 - 03.2023
- Worked with London Stock Exchange Group's Cloud Engineering team to build the Azure Landing Zone for LSEG group.
- Main responsibility was to deliver engineering backlog stories related to building the Azure Landing Zone.
- Furthermore focused on operationalizing Azure Landing Zone work with Operations/SRE members and implementing new pipelines and improving existing ones to enable End-To-End automation.
- Shared the knowledge within the company by participating in CLOUD BUDDY / CLOUO 101 & Cloud Onboarding Training Platform.
- Core technologies used: AWS, Azure, Terraform, Python, GitLab CICD.
Cloud Operations Engineer/ SRE
London Stock Exchange Group
Colombo
08.2020 - 08.2021
- Worked in global CloudOps/SRE team providing support and automations for AWS Landing Zone (LZ).
- Main responsibilities were to onboard internal customers to LZ and create and implement an automation enabled self-service model.
- Involved in resolving incidents related to cloud landing zone and engaged with customers to guide them on cloud migrations.
- Core technologies used: AWS, Azure, Terraform, Python, GitLab CICD, Jenkins with Groovy.
Associate Cloud Operations Engineer
Mitra Innovation (Pvt) Ltd
Colombo
06.2019 - 08.2020
- Worked in CloudOps team providing support and automations for applications based on AWS, Azure and WSO2 middleware.
- Involved in resolving incidents related to AWS cloud, WSO2 middleware, OpenShift micro services platform's application architecture issues and engaged with customers to guide them.
- Provided Cloud Operations support to 3 projects where customers were based in Vietnam, Australia, England.
- Core technologies used: AWS, Azure, Python, Eventuate framework.
Trainee Cloud Operations Engineer/ SRE
Pearson Lanka (Pvt) Ltd
Colombo
07.2018 - 06.2019
- Worked in global CloudOps team providing support and automations for Bitesize Kubernetes PaaS built on AWS cloud infrastructure.
- Main responsibilities were to onboard new customers on to the platform, support for incidents and automate manual tasks that were done on the platform.
- Involved in creating monitoring setups for applications deployed in k8s PaaS.
- Core technologies used: AWS, Kubernetes, Python, Hashicorp Vault.
Trainee Software Engineer
Bellvantage (Pvt) Ltd
Colombo
02.2017 - 08.2017
- Worked in Microsoft .NET engineering team as a software engineering intern.
- Main responsibility was to develop an insurance portal with fellow three intern colleagues where public customers can directly come and consume the services from any kind of insurance service provider.
- Core technologies used: .NET framework, C#, IIS server, HTML, jQuery, Oracle DB, Entity framework.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
University of Kelaniya
Kelaniya, Sri Lanka11-2018
Skills
- AWS
- Azure
- Containerization: Docker/ Kubernetes/ OpenShift
- Infrastructure Automation: Terraform
- Configuration Automation: Ansible
- Scripting: Python, Bash
- CICD Tools: GitLab CICD/ CircleCI/ Jenkins with Groovy
- SPOTIO
- Source Control: Git, GitLab, Bitbucket, Github
- Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, EFK/ELK, DataDog, CloudWatch
Certification
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate (2020-2023)
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (2021-2024)
Publications
Published a paper titled Vehicle Type Validation for Highway Entrances using Convolutional Neural Networks' in International Research Conference on Smart Computing & Systems Engineering.
Publisher - Department of Industrial Management, Faculty of Science, University of Kelaniya.
Date: 29/03/2018
Languages
- Sinhala
- English
Timeline
Infrastructure Engineer
HeyJobs GmbH
11.2023 - Current
Associate Technical Lead
Mad Mobile
03.2023 - 10.2023
Senior Cloud Engineer
London Stock Exchange Group
09.2021 - 03.2023
Cloud Operations Engineer/ SRE
London Stock Exchange Group
08.2020 - 08.2021
Associate Cloud Operations Engineer
Mitra Innovation (Pvt) Ltd
06.2019 - 08.2020
Trainee Cloud Operations Engineer/ SRE
Pearson Lanka (Pvt) Ltd
07.2018 - 06.2019
Trainee Software Engineer
Bellvantage (Pvt) Ltd
02.2017 - 08.2017
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
University of Kelaniya
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