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Wellington, Nz

Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka

• Lead Pearson vision and strategy on DevOps/SRE implementation for SL SRE portfolio for products in EMEA region.• Oversee technical project progress related to automation, toil reduction, cost-optimization, proactive monitoring, datacenter to AWS migrations and infrastructure enhancements.• Established and improved processes and practices ensuring high-quality outcome in timely delivery of work assigned.• Co-ordinate with product owners/managers, development teams and other operations teams on BAU priorities and long running projects.• Established and maintain Agile practices across the team using scrum methodologies.• Plan and execute team expansions, hiring, on/off-boarding and implementation of SRE practices across product portfolio.• Groom and established high-performing and interdependent teams on both datacenter and cloud platforms.• Launched programs on intern/engineer-grooming, and intern/engineer selection.• Coaching/mentoring team members on improving team effectiveness and individual performance

Sri Lanka

• Lead Pearson vision and strategy on DevOps/SRE implementation for SL SRE portfolio for products in EMEA region.• Oversee technical project progress related to automation, toil reduction, cost-optimization, proactive monitoring, datacenter to AWS migrations and infrastructure enhancements.• Established and improved processes and practices ensuring high-quality outcome in timely delivery of work assigned.• Co-ordinate with product owners/managers, development teams and other operations teams on BAU priorities and long running projects.• Established and maintain Agile practices across the team using scrum methodologies.• Plan and execute team expansions, hiring, on/off-boarding and implementation of SRE practices across product portfolio.• Groom and established high-performing and interdependent teams on both datacenter and cloud platforms.• Launched programs on intern/engineer-grooming, and intern/engineer selection.• Coaching/mentoring team members on improving team effectiveness and individual performance.

Orion City, Sri Lanka

• Led DevOps teams on delivering projects and BAU tasks within defined timelines miniating quality, risk, compliance, and costs.• Plan and manage project timelines, shifts and workload for the DevOps team.• Engaged with executive leadership and technical leadership on developing standards, policies, guidelines, and governance on DevOps functionality.• Work collaboratively with architects, product engineering, and infrastructure operations teams on unfolding new technology features, finetuning, performance upscaling, cost-optimization, and troubleshooting datacenter and cloud related systems.• Providing technical expertise for the data center migrations, platform migrations, software configuration, build management functions and toolset.• Engage proactively on change management, problem management, incident management and ensure sustainability of the systems.• Groomed junior members to uplift the technical skills

Orion City, Sri Lanka

• Demonstrated strong technical competence and application expertise ensuring continuous improvement with optimal performance on supported products s while research and development on new innovations.• Collaborated with development teams, infrastructure operations teams and security teams on product development, application support plans and prototype applications. • Provide technical expertise on enhancing environment stabilization with datacenter to datacenter and datacenter to cloud migrations of legacy applications.• Proactive engagement on change management, problem management, incident management and ensure sustainability of the systems.• Engaged with product and technical stakeholders ensuring stability, availability, reliability, and performance improvements.• Planned and supported new application transition & onboardings and provide KT for junior employees & teams.• Provided technical analysis for benefit/risk management and coordinated with key stakeholders on the planning phases.

Colombo

• Manage team resources and provide Systems and Network support for companies in USA, UK as well as the local office.• Coordinate with customers and vendors on purchasing.• Groom junior members on skill uplifting programs.• Provide technical expertise on planning, designing, and implementing systems with Exchange, Active Directory, Lync,Firewall, Router & Switch solutions for new requirements, customer requests and enhancement resulted on internal audit/analysis.• Engaged with maintenance, management, technical support and troubleshooting of Systems and Networks.• Perform all System Administration related tasks including server maintenance, backup maintenance, VPN/firewall, Switch and router configuration and troubleshooting

Colombo, Western, Sri Lanka

• Demonstrated strong technical competence and system administration expertise ensuring continuous improvement and reliable uptime of all Systems and Network including managing Active Directory, Exchange Server, DNS, IIS, DHCP, Terminal Servers and Cisco Firewall, Switch and Routers.• Perform all system administration related tasks for companies in USA, UK as well as the supporting local LAN.• Provide technical expertise on VPN configuration, router/switch configuration, firewall configuration and troubleshooting.• Perform backup maintenance using backup software and NAS solutions.• Engaged in troubleshoot application software, system software and hardware failures.• Conduct user-training sessions during the system implementation phase and thereafter whenever necessary.• Collaborate with development teams on application hosting, configuring, managing, and troubleshooting on in-house, customer and on shared hosting platforms.

Colombo, Western, Sri Lanka

• Engaged in all system administration functionalities demonstrating high competency in planning, designing , implementing, managing and troubleshooting all Systems and Network related solutions for LankaCom internal requirements as well as the LankaCom customers while managing Active Directory, Exchange Server, DNS, IIS, DHCP, Terminal Servers, Firewalls, Switch and Routers.• Engaged in Installing, maintaining and administering all computer hardware, system software & the network of LankaCom LAN, Customer LANs and Disaster Recovery site LAN while perform all system administration related work, such as the maintenance of backups, File Servers, Web Servers, Active Directory group policies, etc. • Provided technical expertise in troubleshoot application software, system software and hardware failures and provide operational support to users in processing print-queues and running mail applications. • Conduct user-training sessions during the system implementation phase and thereafter whenever necessary. Major achievements....Successfully plan and implementation of Local Area Network for LankaCom Plan, Design and implement of Media center for IIFA 2010.

Colombo, Western, Sri Lanka

• Engaged in all system administration functionalities demonstrating high competency in planning, designing , implementing, managing and troubleshooting all Systems and Network related solutions for LankaCom internal requirements as well as the LankaCom customers while managing Active Directory, Exchange Server, DNS, IIS, DHCP, Terminal Servers, Firewalls, Switch and Routers.• Engaged in Installing, maintaining and administering all computer hardware, system software & the network of LankaCom LAN, Customer LANs and Disaster Recovery site LAN while perform all system administration related work, such as the maintenance of backups, File Servers, Web Servers, Active Directory group policies, etc. • Provided technical expertise in troubleshoot application software, system software and hardware failures and provide operational support to users in processing print-queues and running mail applications. • Conduct user-training sessions during the system implementation phase and thereafter whenever necessary.

Colombo

• Perform System Administration related work in Head office and provide technical support to remote factories. Install, maintain and administer all computer hardware, system software & the network. • Troubleshoot application software, system software and hardware failures. Obtain technical information to help decide on hardware purchases. Design & Implement of new DATA & Voice network solutions when the company needs. Server maintenance...o Active Directoryo Mail - Exchange Server 2003,o DNSo Web server - IISo Proxy servero DHCP Server • Backup maintenance of users and servers. Configure & maintaining CISCO routers within the company WAN.• Provide operational support to users in processing print-queues and running mail applications. • Maintain & Troubleshooting of WAN & LAN Solutions. Conduct user-training sessions during the system implementation phase and thereafter whenever necessary.• Obtain technical information to help decide on hardware purchases and maintenance of service agreements Coordinate with Service providers whenever necessary.

Colombo

• Install, maintain and administer all computer hardware, system software & the network.• Troubleshoot application software, system software and hardware failures.• Obtain technical information to help decide on hardware purchases in conjunction with the Systems and Network Engineers.• Perform the creation, modification and deletion of user accounts in the different applications as well as in the NT domain of the wide area network.• Perform all System Administration related work, such as the maintenance of backups etc.• Provide operational support to users in processing print-queues and running mail applications.• Provide operational support to users in processing print-queues and running mail applications.• Setup client workstations and software for users (desktop and notebook PCs).• Conduct user-training sessions during the system implementation phase and thereafter whenever necessary.• Coordinate with Service providers whenever necessary.

Colombo, Western, Sri Lanka

• Maintain & Troubleshooting of WAN & LAN Solutions.• Design & Implement of new network solutions.• Server maintenance (Mail, DNS, Authentication server, Web server, Proxy server).• Configure & maintain CISCO routers and switches.• Customer Support (Dial up, Leased Line, etc…).• Computer Hardware/Software troubleshoot and maintenance.• Customer LAN management.

Colombo, Western, Sri Lanka

• Install & configure LAN networks.• Install & configure ADSL modems & routers.• Design & Implement of new network solutions.• Computer Hardware/Software troubleshoot and maintenance.• Network troubleshoot and maintenance.• Direct marketing.

Master Of Information Technology, Information Technology

B.Sc (Hons) In Computing And Information Systems, Information Technology

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