
Lasheen Fernando
Associate Technical Specialist | Oracle & Cloud DB
Salary / Daily rate
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Freelance
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About me
Intro
Database & SRE specialist with 10+ years managing Oracle, MongoDB, and cloud infrastructure. Led critical cloud migration projects at Pearson Lanka with expertise in performance tuning, automation, and 24/7 production support. Ready to optimize your database systems and ensure seamless cloud transitions.
Work experience
Pearson Lanka
Dec 2019 - Present
6 years 11 months
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Associate Technical Specialist - Database
Jul 2022 - Present
4 years 4 months
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Job Role & Responsibilities. - Work as the primary engineer for the cloud migration projects. and the support engineer to after the migrations. - Attend to technical discussions and find solutions to the ongoing issues and migration projects. - Implement Database configuration, Installation, Troubleshooting solutions in the production systems. - Build the team for a specific project and manage the tasks and co-ordination with the relevant teams towards the completion of the project. - Work on the on-call rotation , database maintenance , incident(critical to medium) activities according to the service level agreements. - Implement best practices on alert configuration, automation , backup and restorations and alert noise reduction. - Prepare training materials , root cause analysis document, run-books, and work on presentations and workshops. - Implement Jira practices and ITIL practices to the maintenance , upgrade and audit processes
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Jan 2021 - Jul 2022
1 year 7 months
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Skills: Cassandra · Oracle Database · New Relic · MySQL · Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) · ITIL · AWS Identity and Access Management (AWS IAM) · Amazon EC2 · VMware vSphere · JSON · Oracle Fusion Middleware · Data Migration · Jenkins · Customer Service · Tomcat · Git · Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) · Oracle RAC · PagerDuty · Oracle Database Administration · Jira · XML · PostgreSQL · Amazon Web Services (AWS) · SQL · VMWare ESXi · Performance Tuning · AWS CloudFormation · Red Hat Linux · Oracle Enterprise Manager · MongoDB · WebLogic · Customer Relations · Data Guard
Senior Database Administrator
Dec 2019 - Jan 2021
1 year 2 months
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Skills: Oracle Database · MySQL · JSON · Oracle Fusion Middleware · Data Migration · Customer Service · Oracle RAC · XML · SQL · Performance Tuning · Red Hat Linux · Oracle Enterprise Manager · WebLogic · Customer Relations · Data Guard
System Engineer/Database Administrator
DMS Software Technologies (Pvt) Ltd
Dec 2016 - Dec 2019
3 years 1 month
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Skills: Oracle Database · MySQL · Oracle Cloud · Linux System Administration · Oracle Applications · Oracle Enterprise Linux · Oracle Fusion Middleware · Data Migration · Oracle · Customer Service · Oracle RAC · PL/SQL · XML · SQL · Performance Tuning · Red Hat Linux · Oracle Enterprise Manager · WebLogic · Databases · Customer Relations · Data Guard
Informatics International Limited
Jul 2013 - Dec 2016
3 years 6 months
Colombo 13
System Engineer (DB Infra Services)
Jul 2014 - Dec 2016
2 years 6 months
Colombo 13
• Working in the Global IT Infrastructure Services Unit to provide database and application server support for production systems. • Planning and Designing database structure. • Backup and recovery. • Performance tuning. • Performance data guard drills(Switchover/Switchback) • Installing and configuring Oracle database, weblogic server, application server, cluster applications (RAC) , Data guard.
Associate Database Administrator
Jul 2013 - Jul 2014
1 year 1 month
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Provide 1st line database support, monitor several mission critical application systems and engage in implementation, performance tuning, capacity planning, upgrading and patching. Technologies: Database monitoring in Exadata Database Machine, ODA(Oracle Database Appliance server), Oracle RDBMS 10g/11g, RAC/ASM, Weblogic server 10.3.5/10.3.6, JVM tuning, RMAN(Recovery Manager), 12c Enterprise manager, VMware, Vsphere Roles and Responsibilities • Installing and configuring Oracle database software, Oracle RAC (Real application Clusters - high availability software), Weblogic server software an d Oracle Forms and Reports software in Windows and Unix operating systems. • Providing 24*7 on-call database and application server support for live systems. • Creating standby databases through Oracle Data Guard and performing maintenance tasks. • Monitor storage growth and implement required solutions in production systems. • Performance tuning in the database instances and application server instances. • Maintain the integrity of the database systems though applying security features. • Applying critical patches and upgrading necessary software. • Establish and maintain sound backup and recovery policies and procedures. • Writing shell scripts and schedule database backups and to administer database tasks. • Install operating systems (Oracle linux, Redhat linux, Windows server). • Using RMAN , data-pump and Imp/Exp technologies to backup and recovery activities.
Intern Android Developer
AJ Tech
Dec 2012 - Mar 2013
4 months
London, UK
Creating android apps for online sales website.
Education
Cardiff Metropolitan University
BSc Comp(Hons)
2010 - 2013
3 years 1 month
De Mazenod College
G.C.E Advance Level
1994 - 2008
14 years 1 month