Lasantha J.
Senior Kubernetes & AWS Platform Engineer | EKS, Istio, Terraform
🚀 TOP RATED PLUS | Senior Kubernetes & DevOps Consultant | AWS | GCP | EKS | GKE | Istio Multi-Cluster | Terraform | GitOps | SRE Senior DevOps & Platform Engineer with 15+ years of experience designing, automating, and scaling production-grade cloud infrastructure across AWS and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for SaaS platforms and high-availability environments. Specialized in Kubernetes platform engineering, Istio multi-cluster service mesh architectures, cloud infrastructure automation, GitOps workflows, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). I help engineering teams improve scalability, deployment reliability, observability, security, and operational efficiency using modern cloud-native technologies. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ Core Expertise ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, k3s) • AWS & GCP Cloud Architecture • Istio Multi-Cluster Service Mesh • Multi-Cluster Kubernetes Networking • Multi-Account / Multi-Project Cloud Infrastructure • Terraform & Infrastructure as Code (IaC) • GitOps (ArgoCD, FluxCD, Flagger) • CI/CD Automation • Platform Engineering & SRE • Observability & Monitoring • Linux System Administration • Production Infrastructure Troubleshooting ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ Technical Skills ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ☁️ Cloud Platforms AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Azure, DigitalOcean ☸️ Kubernetes & Containers Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, EKS, GKE, k3s, KubeEdge 🔀 Service Mesh & Networking Istio, Istio Multi-Cluster, AWS App Mesh, Envoy, NGINX, Apache 🏗 Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Puppet 🚀 GitOps & CI/CD ArgoCD, FluxCD, Flagger, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, CircleCI, AWS CodePipeline 📊 Monitoring, Logging & Observability Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch, Fluentd 🔧 Version Control Systems GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ What I Deliver ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Production-grade Kubernetes platform deployments on AWS and GCP • Istio multi-cluster service mesh design and implementation • Cross-cluster service discovery and secure mTLS communication • Infrastructure automation using Terraform and GitOps • Zero-downtime deployments using Canary and Blue/Green strategies • CI/CD pipeline automation and deployment optimization • Monitoring, observability, logging, and incident troubleshooting • Secure and scalable cloud-native platform architectures • Infrastructure modernization and DevOps transformation ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ Professional Certifications ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional • AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional • Microsoft Specialist – Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ Why Clients Hire Me ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Strong communication and long-term client relationships • Enterprise-level production infrastructure experience • Deep expertise in Kubernetes and Istio multi-cluster environments • Focus on reliability, scalability, and automation • Fast problem-solving and troubleshooting capabilities • Proven success with complex cloud-native architecture
Earnings and projects
Last 6 months ÷ 6
Read daily since Oct 30, under 30 days
Billed in all: $447,604$448k
$12k in the last 6 months
Across 63 contracts
Earnings, last 30 days
Tracked from Oct 30, 2026.
Skill rankings: Top 2% in Linux
Ranked by MRR among everyone on Upwork with the skill.
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