Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
Websites
Volunteering
References
Timeline
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Sakuntha Hewapathirana

Sakuntha Hewapathirana

Anuradhapura

Summary

Results-driven Cloud Engineer with over 5 years of experience in cloud infrastructure management, automation, and SRE practices across AWS, GCP, and Docker. Proven expertise in optimizing systems for scalability, security, and reliability, with hands-on skills in Python automation, CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitHub Actions, and database management with Oracle, MySQL, and MS SQL. Adept at troubleshooting infrastructures, configuring servers, and ensuring high availability, delivering innovative cloud solutions for operational excellence.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Infrastructure Operations Engineer

Virtusa Pvt Ltd
Colombo
09.2022 - Current
  • Provisioned and maintained AWS cloud infrastructure (EC2, S3, RDS, ECS, Route 53) and Linux (Ubuntu) environments using Terraform, ensuring 99.95% SLA uptime for client applications.
  • Provided application and technical support for clients, troubleshooting application issues to maintain seamless user experiences, and meet SLA requirements.
  • Resolved client tickets in ServiceNow, addressing issues with clients' applications, ensuring timely resolution, and high client satisfaction.
  • Developed Python and shell scripts to automate manual tasks, reducing manual intervention time, and enhancing operational efficiency for cloud and application workflows.
  • Implemented monitoring tools (Grafana, Prometheus) for proactive issue detection, reducing incident response time by 35% to maintain SLA compliance.
  • Configured logging and reporting systems with AWS CloudWatch, improving issue identification efficiency by 30% for production environments.
  • I wrote and optimized complex SQL queries for MySQL, MS SQL, and Oracle databases to manage data and generate reports, enhancing client reporting capabilities.
  • Automated infrastructure provisioning and application deployments using Terraform and Bicep improve consistency and reduce manual interventions by 50%.
  • Monitored and optimized system performance using Prometheus and Grafana, resolving critical incidents through proactive alerting.
  • Documented infrastructure builds and created support RunBooks, reducing onboarding time for new engineers.
  • Collaborated with development and operations teams to enhance system performance, achieving 99.99% uptime for distributed infrastructure.

DevOps Engineer

Codezilla Pvt Ltd
Colombo
06.2021 - 08.2022
  • Provisioned and managed AWS infrastructure (EC2, S3, RDS, Route 53, ECS) with Terraform, achieving 99.9% uptime for client SLAs.
  • Deployed Grafana and Prometheus for proactive monitoring, reducing incident detection time by 40% to maintain SLA compliance.
  • Built automation pipelines with GitHub Actions and Terraform, reducing provisioning time for cloud infrastructure.
  • Deployed containerized applications using Docker, improving scalability and reducing infrastructure costs.
  • Managed cloud infrastructure on AWS to ensure system reliability.
  • Configured, managed, and monitored cloud-based services such as AWS EC2, S3, EBS, ELB, RDS using Terraform and Ansible.
  • Developed cloud architectures on AWS and Heroku, ensuring 99.9% uptime for client-facing services.
  • Developed Python and shell scripts to automate manual tasks, reducing manual intervention time, and enhancing operational efficiency for cloud and application workflows.
  • Participated in 24/7 on-call rotations, resolving 90% of cloud-related incidents within SLA targets.
  • Maintained and troubleshot AWS, Azure, and GCP infrastructure, ensuring high availability and security.

Associate DevOps Engineer

Codezilla Pvt Ltd
Colombo
02.2020 - 06.2021
  • Developed cloud architectures on AWS and Heroku, ensuring 99.9% uptime for client-facing services.
  • Automated deployment processes using CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions / Jenkins) for software releases.
  • Monitored system performance and resolved issues proactively using Grafana and AWS CloudWatch to ensure uptime.
  • Deployed containerized applications using Docker, improving scalability, and reducing infrastructure costs.
  • Built automation pipelines with Jenkins and Terraform, reducing manual configuration efforts.
  • Implemented Python and Shell scripts to generate reports and reduce manual interventions by 50%.

Software Engineer Intern

GalleZone Solutions (Private) Limited
Colombo
06.2019 - 12.2019
  • Developed and maintained full-stack web applications using JavaScript, HTML, CSS, VueJS, and Laravel.
  • Implemented and managed WordPress and Moodle websites.
  • Created RESTful APIs to enable communication between web applications and databases.
  • Designed database schemas to store data for web applications, utilizing MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server.
  • Wrote SQL queries and stored procedures that interact with databases like MySQL from within a Java application.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Software Engineering (Hons)

University of Plymouth
UK
12-2019

Central College
Anuradhapura
08-2016

Skills

  • AWS, GCP, Digital Ocean, Azure
  • Docker, Kubernetes
  • Terraform, Ansible
  • GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Bamboo
  • Nginx, Apache Tomcat
  • Grafana, Prometheus, AWS Cloud Watch
  • PHP, Python, Shell Scripting, NodeJS
  • Firebase, Heroku, Netlify, Code Magic
  • Application support, Service Now, ClickUp
  • Linux / Windows Server Administration

Certification

  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Foundations 2020 Certified Associate (https://www.credly.com/badges/e31a360e-df06-4756-97e32a557682875a/linked_in_pro)
  • AWS Educate: Getting started with Compute (https://www.credly.com/badges/06b10b83-37f5-46ea-824d-01e786d0f6d4/linked_in_profile)
  • Completed the GenAI course at Virtusa Pvt. Ltd.

Websites

Volunteering

  • Senior Member/Mentor at NSBM Free and Open Source Software Community.
  • Core Member / Localization Leader at Mozilla Sri Lanka.
  • Core Member at Free and Open Source Software Community Sri Lanka (FOSSLK).
  • Organizing community member at Google Code Jam 2019/2020.

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Infrastructure Operations Engineer

Virtusa Pvt Ltd
09.2022 - Current

DevOps Engineer

Codezilla Pvt Ltd
06.2021 - 08.2022

Associate DevOps Engineer

Codezilla Pvt Ltd
02.2020 - 06.2021

Software Engineer Intern

GalleZone Solutions (Private) Limited
06.2019 - 12.2019

Bachelor of Science - Software Engineering (Hons)

University of Plymouth

Central College

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