Summary
Charithra Kariyawasam is a Site Reliability Engineer II with eight years’ experience building and automating resilient infrastructure for cybersecurity and HR platforms. Based in York and currently at Forcepoint, she focuses on incident response, cloud and on-premise reliability, and pragmatic automation using Python, Ansible, and Bash to remove operational toil. She has delivered measurable outcomes such as a SIEM-based log monitoring stack and a comprehensive cloud cost analysis, blending cloud security and threat modelling with hands-on tooling like Docker, Jenkins, and the ELK stack. As an incident manager she enforces SLAs and coordinates critical incident resolution while driving scalable, business-aligned solutions. Her background spans progressive SRE/TechOps roles at OrangeHRM through to Forcepoint, giving her deep operational experience across AWS and hybrid environments. Colleagues describe her as self-driven and detail-oriented, often finding automation opportunities others have missed.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Colombo
CIMA - Operational Level Completed, CIMA - Operational Level Completed at Apex Business Academy