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Thilina V.

DevOps | Cloud Security | Platform Engineering | AI/ML Infrastructure

I help companies design, automate, secure, and optimize cloud platforms on AWS, Azure, and GCP. With 8+ years of hands-on experience in Cloud, DevOps, Security, and Platform Engineering, I have led cloud transformation, infrastructure automation, Kubernetes modernization, FinOps initiatives, and enterprise security programs for Fortune 500 organizations and large-scale global environments. My expertise goes beyond infrastructure deployment—I focus on building scalable, secure, highly available, and cost-efficient platforms that accelerate software delivery while reducing operational overhead. I currently work as a Technical Lead responsible for cloud operations, platform engineering, security governance, automation, infrastructure modernization, cost optimization, and DevSecOps initiatives across multi-cloud environments. What I Can Help You With Cloud Architecture & Platform Engineering ✔ AWS Landing Zones & Multi-Account Architectures ✔ AWS Organizations & Control Tower ✔ Cloud Migration & Modernization ✔ High Availability & Disaster Recovery ✔ Hybrid Cloud & Multi-Cloud Architectures ✔ Platform Engineering & Internal Developer Platforms ✔ Infrastructure Standardization & Governance ✔ FinOps & Cloud Cost Optimization DevOps & CI/CD ✔ GitHub Actions ✔ GitLab CI/CD ✔ Jenkins ✔ AWS CodePipeline ✔ Bitbucket Pipelines ✔ ArgoCD ✔ Blue/Green Deployments ✔ Canary Releases ✔ Zero-Downtime Deployments ✔ Release Automation ✔ Environment Promotion Strategies Kubernetes & Container Platforms ✔ Amazon EKS ✔ Amazon ECS (EC2 & Fargate) ✔ Kubernetes Administration ✔ Cluster Upgrades & Modernization ✔ Helm ✔ Ingress Controllers ✔ Service Mesh ✔ Container Security ✔ Docker ✔ Container Registries (ECR, Docker Hub) ✔ Production Kubernetes Operations Infrastructure as Code & Automation ✔ Terraform ✔ OpenTofu ✔ CloudFormation ✔ Ansible ✔ Packer ✔ Python Automation ✔ Bash Scripting ✔ Infrastructure Lifecycle Management ✔ GitOps ✔ Self-Service Provisioning Platforms AI Infrastructure, MLOps & AIOps ✔ Amazon Bedrock ✔ Amazon Q ✔ OpenAI API Integrations ✔ AI-Powered DevOps Workflows ✔ LLM Infrastructure Deployment ✔ AI Agent Hosting Platforms ✔ Vector Databases ✔ RAG Infrastructure ✔ GPU Workloads ✔ Kubernetes for AI Platforms ✔ MLOps Pipelines ✔ AI Observability ✔ AIOps & Intelligent Incident Management ✔ AI-Assisted Infrastructure Automation Cloud Security & DevSecOps ✔ AWS Security Best Practices ✔ IAM Governance ✔ Identity Federation & SSO ✔ Security Baselines ✔ Secrets Management ✔ WAF & Edge Security ✔ Vulnerability Management ✔ Security Automation ✔ Compliance Automation ✔ SOC2 Readiness ✔ ISO 27001 Controls ✔ CIS Benchmark Implementations ✔ Cloud Security Reviews & Audits AWS Expertise ✔ EC2 ✔ ECS ✔ EKS ✔ Lambda ✔ API Gateway ✔ VPC ✔ Route 53 ✔ CloudFront ✔ ALB / NLB ✔ S3 ✔ RDS ✔ DynamoDB ✔ Aurora ✔ Elasticache ✔ Secrets Manager ✔ Systems Manager ✔ Control Tower ✔ Organizations ✔ Config ✔ CloudTrail ✔ GuardDuty ✔ Security Hub ✔ Compute Optimizer ✔ Cost Explorer ✔ Budgets ✔ Savings Plans & Reserved Instances Monitoring, Observability & Reliability Engineering ✔ CloudWatch ✔ Prometheus ✔ Grafana ✔ ELK Stack ✔ OpenSearch ✔ OpenTelemetry ✔ Distributed Tracing ✔ New Relic ✔ Datadog ✔ Dynatrace ✔ Incident Response ✔ SRE Practices ✔ Reliability Engineering ✔ Capacity Planning Certifications 🏆 AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional 🏆 AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional 🏆 AWS Certified Security – Specialty 🏆 AWS Certified AI Practitioner 🏆 Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer Why Clients Work With Me ✅ Technical Lead with real enterprise-scale cloud experience ✅ Strong architecture and hands-on implementation skills ✅ Security-first mindset ✅ Deep AWS expertise ✅ Cost optimization and FinOps experience ✅ Fast troubleshooting and root-cause analysis ✅ Clear communication and documentation ✅ Visiting Lecturer in Cloud, DevOps, and Security ✅ AWS Community Contributor and Public Speaker Areas I Commonly Support AWS Infrastructure Design Terraform Projects Kubernetes / EKS ECS Fargate Cloud Security Reviews CI/CD Automation Cloud Cost Optimization Platform Engineering AI Infrastructure MLOps & AIOps DevSecOps Cloud Migrations Production Troubleshooting Observability & Monitoring

🇱🇰Matara, Sri Lanka$35/hr100% JSS4.72 (41)Since Apr 2021

Earnings and projects

MRR
$124

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#128,957 / 412k
🇱🇰Country#469 / 1,581
Revenue, last 30 days
$33

Last 6 months: $744

World#101,251 / 412k
🇱🇰Country#425 / 1,581
Total earnings
$195k

Billed in all: $212k

World#15,970 / 412k
🇱🇰Country#37 / 1,581
Per project
$3.7k

$248 in the last 6 months

World#45,719 / 412k
🇱🇰Country#100 / 1,581
Projects, last 6 months
3
33% fixed67% hourly
World#66,482 / 412k
🇱🇰Country#295 / 1,581
Projects in all
52

Across 54 contracts

41% fixed59% hourly
World#58,780 / 412k
🇱🇰Country#358 / 1,581

Earnings, last 30 days

$212k+$33 earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$211,500$211,520$211,540Oct 9Oct 24Nov 8

Skill rankings: Top 24% in Cloud Computing

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