Hi, I'm Maneesha Mendis

Enterprise DevOps & Cloud Engineer

Linux & Middleware Specialist / Technical Consultant building highly available, secure and scalable infrastructure for financial services and telecom platforms serving millions of users.

0+ Years Experience
London, UK Current Location
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Maneesha Mendis

// keep calm and deploy to Production

Commit
commit
Build
build
test
Deploy
deploy
Monitor
monitor

$ git commit -m "ship it"

kubectl get pods -n career
NAMEREADYSTATUSRESTARTSAGE
devops-engineer1/1Running03946d
kubernetes-expert1/1Running22847d
linux-specialist1/1Running04018d
ci-cd-automation0/1Pending02s

$ watch kubectl get pods -n career

$ whoami

Profile

Enterprise Cloud & DevOps Engineer and Middleware Specialist with over 11 years of experience across financial services, telecommunications and enterprise IT infrastructure. Proven expertise designing, deploying and maintaining highly available, secure and scalable systems across cloud-native, hybrid and on-premises environments. Demonstrated success implementing DevOps practices, automation and performance optimization — with deep proficiency in Kubernetes, cloud platforms, Linux, CI/CD pipelines, middleware and observability tools. Skilled in system tuning, incident response and SRE. Holds full and unrestricted right to work in the UK.

DevOps & IaC

Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm

Middleware

JBoss, Tomcat, IBM MQ / WebSphere, Kafka, Nginx, Apache, HAProxy

Cloud & Security

AWS, GCP, Azure, ISO 27001, Vulnerability Management, WAF, SSO

Countries I've Worked In

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maneesha@london ~ zsh

What I Work With

Skills

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Cloud

AWS · GCP · Azure

DevOps

Kubernetes · Docker · Jenkins · Terraform · Ansible · Git / GitLab · Helm · Nexus

Middleware

JBoss · Tomcat · IBM MQ · WebSphere · Apache · Nginx · Kafka · HAProxy

OS & Infrastructure

RHEL · Ubuntu · Windows Server · VMware / ESXi · DNS · NFS

Monitoring

Grafana · Prometheus · Nagios · AppDynamics · New Relic

Security, IAM & Tools

ISO 27001 · Nessus · WAF · SELinux · Active Directory · LDAP · SSO · Python · PowerShell · Postman · Jira

Career Journey

Work Experience

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  • Manage and support large-scale multi-cloud infrastructure environments serving over 8M users across the UK and Europe.
  • Design, implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions to automate cloud provisioning, configuration management and operational workflows.
  • Drive DevOps initiatives including CI/CD pipeline management, automation, system reliability, monitoring and deployment optimization across enterprise platforms.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional engineering and operations teams to ensure high availability, scalability, security and performance of cloud-based services and applications.
  • Led middleware & infrastructure support for highly critical financial systems including stock trading platforms.
  • Designed and implemented Kubernetes based solutions.
  • Performed DevOps tasks and system hardening.
  • Implemented and managed CI/CD pipelines across DEV, UAT, PROD and DR environments.
  • Maintained high-availability middleware clusters and optimized systems for low-latency trading.
  • Implemented and managed vulnerability remediation processes and security management.
  • Designed and implemented architectural solutions for new projects.
  • Architected and delivered secure vendor integration solutions across global financial platforms including Bloomberg, IBKR, JPMorgan Chase, Saudi Exchange and Dubai Exchange.
  • Managed hybrid infrastructure across Fiji & New Zealand (AWS and on-premises).
  • Automated critical IT processes using Ansible, Jenkins and Shell scripting.
  • Led the setup of a multi-cloud DR site and migrated workloads to containers.
  • Managed the IT team, enforced IT policies, and led IT audits and compliance work.
  • Conducted capacity planning & management for both on-premises and cloud environments.
  • Managed Windows and Linux servers running on VMware ESXi across the organization.
  • Worked as lead implementation engineer for the SAB and Alawwal Bank merger.
  • Implemented CI/CD pipelines.
  • Handled infrastructure and middleware setup for the HSBC Retail brokerage migration project.
  • Tuned systems for high concurrent session handling and implemented monitoring systems for PROD.
  • Implemented secure API and middleware integration with HSBC HUB, Bloomberg and other external systems.
  • Managed and maintained DR and production servers, ensuring high availability for 264 hospitals utilizing e-channeling systems as their core channeling / HIS system.
  • Implemented AWS and Azure environments for development & UAT as the first phase of migrating to cloud.
  • Managed CI/CD pipelines.
  • Implemented load balancers, WAF, CDN & security controls.
  • Managed Windows and Linux servers and provided Level 2 & 3 end user support.
  • Migrated core backend application from GlassFish to JBoss clusters.

$ ls -la ~/credentials

Awards & Certifications

Certifications earned across cloud, containers, security and networking.

Certified Kubernetes Administrator

Linux Foundation

Certified Jenkins Engineer

CloudBees University

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

AWS Academy

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Associate

Oracle University

Red Hat Certified Engineer

Red Hat Academy

Red Hat Certified Specialist in Security

Red Hat Academy

Red Hat Certified Systems Administrator

Red Hat Academy

Docker Foundations Professional Certificate

Docker Inc

CCNA

Cisco Networking Academy

Education

Bachelor of Information Technology

University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC)

Diploma in Information Technology

University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC)

$ git log --projects

Projects

Placeholder entries — architecture diagrams, GitHub links and tooling breakdowns to be added soon.

Coming Soon

Multi-Cloud Kubernetes Platform

End-to-end IaC deployment for a highly available Kubernetes platform across multiple regions.

TerraformKubernetesAWS
Architecture Diagram GitHub
Coming Soon

CI/CD Pipeline Automation

Automated build, test and deployment pipeline for microservices across DEV, UAT and PROD.

JenkinsGitLab CIAnsible
Architecture Diagram GitHub
Coming Soon

Observability & Monitoring Stack

Centralized monitoring, logging and alerting stack for production middleware clusters.

GrafanaPrometheusNagios
Architecture Diagram GitHub

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Let's Build Something Reliable

Open to DevOps, Cloud and Infrastructure opportunities in the UK and remote.

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