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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

🇱🇰Galle, Sri Lanka$60/hr100% JSS4.94 (38)Since Sep 2013

Earnings and projects

MRR
$6k

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#3,906 / 412k
🇱🇰Country#4 / 1,581
Revenue, last 30 days
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Read daily since Oct 30, under 30 days

Total earnings
$429k

Billed in all: $448k

World#3,870 / 412k
🇱🇰Country#6 / 1,581
Per project
$7.4k

$12k in the last 6 months

World#22,848 / 412k
🇱🇰Country#44 / 1,581
Projects, last 6 months
3
0% fixed100% hourly
World#66,479 / 412k
🇱🇰Country#295 / 1,581
Projects in all
58

Across 63 contracts

44% fixed56% hourly
World#52,574 / 412k
🇱🇰Country#328 / 1,581

Earnings, last 30 days

$448k+$732 earned since Oct 30Billed in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$446.5k$447.0k$447.5k$448.0kOct 30Nov 3Nov 7

Tracked from Oct 30, 2026.

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