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Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

- Design AWS Architectures to improve current obsoleted AWS processes and resources. - Implement AWS Accounts and resources based on organization requirements- Act as SME for AWS related requests and queries- Troubleshooting AWS related incidents.- Improving / Automating current AWS related tasks.- Attend to Windows server related incidents and requests- Participate for delivering internal projects.- Use Route53 and Windows DNS services for name resolutions.-… Show more - Design AWS Architectures to improve current obsoleted AWS processes and resources. - Implement AWS Accounts and resources based on organization requirements- Act as SME for AWS related requests and queries- Troubleshooting AWS related incidents.- Improving / Automating current AWS related tasks.- Attend to Windows server related incidents and requests- Participate for delivering internal projects.- Use Route53 and Windows DNS services for name resolutions.- Support Dev teams with products deployments using Octopus CI/CD pipelines.- Implement IaC at Adminis.Completed Projects- Implement AWS SSO (Landing Zone) authenticated by Azure Active Directory- Re-initiate file server (File server recovery) with DFSR and Versioning enabled.- Implement AWS WAF with Rate limiting ACLs.- IaC (Terraform) implementation for None production Environment networks creation.- VPN Server migration (Ubuntu + OpenVPN + MFA)- Active Directory migration (2012 to 2022)- Application server migrations- MS SQL DB Server migrations- WAF implementation for blocking unwanted external traffic Show less

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

• Infrastructure design and development for clients• Attend for client support requests• Internal infrastructure upgrades• Troubleshoot internal infrastructure• Attend for infrastructure related requests• R&D on new technologies• Internal project management• Administering AWS and Azure cloud environments• Automating manual tasks using Ansible, Jenkins and AWS Code Pipeline.• Maintain Office365 users and access• Administering internal AWX, Jenkins… Show more • Infrastructure design and development for clients• Attend for client support requests• Internal infrastructure upgrades• Troubleshoot internal infrastructure• Attend for infrastructure related requests• R&D on new technologies• Internal project management• Administering AWS and Azure cloud environments• Automating manual tasks using Ansible, Jenkins and AWS Code Pipeline.• Maintain Office365 users and access• Administering internal AWX, Jenkins servers• Administering internal RHEV environment (Commission and decommission VMs, backup and restoring)Completed Projects- Upgrade, Install plugins for Production Jenkins server - Implement Jenkins server for Dev team with LDAP connectivity- AWS Architecture design, pricing and implementation for a customer- Upgrade AWS deprecating instances in Dev, Test and Prod environments- Upgrade Jira, JSD and Confluence- Change SSL certificates in Windows/Linux servers- Implement AD GPOs to enforce security and organizational requirements. Show less

Colombo, Sri Lanka

• Organize, prepare and represent WSE support team at stakeholder and WSE leadership meetings (with VP, Directors and senior managers from different geographical locations) and demonstrate product and support updates, process improvements, future plans, etc.• Act as the main contact point for WSE Support between customers/stakeholders, various Dev Teams, POs, EU marketing, WSE and Pearson management.• Involve to prioritize the fixes for critical issues and get the Dev and DevOps support… Show more • Organize, prepare and represent WSE support team at stakeholder and WSE leadership meetings (with VP, Directors and senior managers from different geographical locations) and demonstrate product and support updates, process improvements, future plans, etc.• Act as the main contact point for WSE Support between customers/stakeholders, various Dev Teams, POs, EU marketing, WSE and Pearson management.• Involve to prioritize the fixes for critical issues and get the Dev and DevOps support for delivering a successful fix.• Prioritize work backlog of the team based on importance and urgency.• Leading WSE related major incident resolutions and coordination. Provide update to the team and WSE/Pearson management.• Conduct product training programs for Level 1 support teams around the world and other stakeholders (Travel when necessary).• Follow ITIL standards and CICD pipeline processes in Service management and delivery.• Prepare technical/procedure documentations, KB Articles when necessary and based on requirements.• Leading the WSE product support transformation to a new support team (Training, mentoring and closely monitoring). Update relevant leaderships (VPs and Directors) with the progress of new team.• Manage TechOps internal projects (OpsSN dashboard improvement, Building WSE knowledgebase)• Create bash scripts to automate manual tasks of web servers (restart, copy files, etc).• Use various AWS tools to manage Cloud Infra. and use CloudFormation with YAML to automate Development environments (IaaS). Show less

Brussels Area, Belgium

- Monitoring and administering customer Infrastructure - Remotely attend on issues and provide solutions*** MS Exchange 2010 user management including Office 365 + Lync*** Active directory administration (users, OUs and GPOs)*** VMWare infrastructure administration (Create VMs, add/edit/remove resources, etc) *** Backup administration (BackExec, Acronis, AppAssure)*** Unix/Linux based server administration (Such as cron jobs, firewalls, etc)Summary of technology… Show more - Monitoring and administering customer Infrastructure - Remotely attend on issues and provide solutions*** MS Exchange 2010 user management including Office 365 + Lync*** Active directory administration (users, OUs and GPOs)*** VMWare infrastructure administration (Create VMs, add/edit/remove resources, etc) *** Backup administration (BackExec, Acronis, AppAssure)*** Unix/Linux based server administration (Such as cron jobs, firewalls, etc)Summary of technology useVMWare ESXi 5.1, Exchange 2010 including office365, Solaris10, Windows 2008 R2, AD GPO, Aconis, Backup Exec, etc. Show less

Colombo 03.

From March 2011 to April 2012- Technical Leader for 2 organizations (CMS and E-solutions.)- Involve in resolve issues at CMS and E-Solutions (Software / Infrastructure)- Monitor server health & logs; escalate any critical issues to the management. - Maintain a high available backup & recovery system. - Research & Implement new technologies (Open source software) that best suits to the company. - Administering & monitoring internal network / servers. - Raise new ideas… Show more From March 2011 to April 2012- Technical Leader for 2 organizations (CMS and E-solutions.)- Involve in resolve issues at CMS and E-Solutions (Software / Infrastructure)- Monitor server health & logs; escalate any critical issues to the management. - Maintain a high available backup & recovery system. - Research & Implement new technologies (Open source software) that best suits to the company. - Administering & monitoring internal network / servers. - Raise new ideas and implement them to enhance & streamline current activities.From April 2012 to PresentWorking as a Outsourced Systems Engineer for ABSI (remotely from Sri Lanka) Show less

Vauxhall Street, Colombo 02.

- Lead the engineering team consist of 4 Systems Engineers- Delegate jobs among subordinates and involve in resolve critical issues (Software / -Network / Services/ Open Source Software).- Manage VM Ware Infrastructure (Commission & De-Commission Servers / MonitorUtilization / Backup & Recovery).- Monitor server health & logs; escalate any critical issues to the management.- Maintain a high available backup & recovery system.- Maintain business continuity plan with… Show more - Lead the engineering team consist of 4 Systems Engineers- Delegate jobs among subordinates and involve in resolve critical issues (Software / -Network / Services/ Open Source Software).- Manage VM Ware Infrastructure (Commission & De-Commission Servers / MonitorUtilization / Backup & Recovery).- Monitor server health & logs; escalate any critical issues to the management.- Maintain a high available backup & recovery system.- Maintain business continuity plan with lowest planed downtime.- Research & Implement new technologies that best suits to the company.- Install, Configure open source Operating systems & software- Administering & monitoring internal network / servers Show less

Katunayake

- Assist IT Manager to maintain internal network- Hardware / Software Installation and troubleshooting- Software development to automate and speedup manual tasksImplemented software: Production Planning, Complaints Management, Production control,PO Management, Stores Management, etc.

Analyze & Develop software to automate critical manual systems such as Production Planning, HRM, Report Generators for existing software, etc.

Post Graduate Diploma In Information Technology, Information Technology

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Business Administration And Management, Project Management

Activities and Societies: Cardiff met. Alumni - 2014 MBA specialized in Project Management

Mbcs Citp, Information Technology

Studying for BCS examination