Ruwinda Fernando

DevOps oriented Technical Lead with over 10+ years of experience in multi-platform UNIX / Linux flavors, with hands-on expertise in installing, configuring, networking, scripting, and maintenance of Application, Database, and Middleware environments.

Solid background in technical support for IT infrastructure runs Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise, Ubuntu, IBM AIX, Sun (Oracle) Solaris operating systems hosted on Cloud and On-premises.

Working for Data-Driven Cloud-based Global Marketing Leader in the US.

Level 3 escalation on Foreman, VMware, OpenStack, AWS workloads run on Windows and Red Hat Linux.

Working on team that follows Agile Development practices with Scrum (Jira, Confluence)

Version Controlling with GitHub/Bitbucket

Container Technologies such as Docker and Docker Compose, Working with Docker Registry

Container Orchestration with Kubernetes

Running production Kubernetes clusters by monitoring and actively troubleshooting nodes, pods, storage, and network issues.

Building and developing CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins/Gitlab) for build/test/deployment.

Maintain IaC standards by infrastructure creation, provisioning and upgrades using Terraform & Ansible.

Check_MK, Xymon monitoring for virtual/physical infrastructure

CSI benchmark hardening for On-Prem and Cloud instances

RabbitMQ, JBoss, Apache Middleware infrastructure support and maintenance.

Continuously working to improve by acquiring new skills for the job

Involve with proof of concepts to recommend solutions demanded by the business.

University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland

B.Sc. MIS (Management Information Systems)