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Erica Dos Santos

@ericadossantos

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Cloud-native DevOps and security engineer driving scalable, automated AWS solutions and migrations.

United Kingdom

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What I'm looking for

I seek a senior cloud/platform role focused on secure, automated AWS infrastructure, team leadership, and large-scale migration or platform initiatives with opportunities for impact and knowledge-sharing.

I am a cloud-native DevOps and security engineer with extensive hands-on experience designing, migrating and operating large-scale AWS environments. I have led platform and security initiatives supporting millions of users, delivered zero-downtime migrations, and implemented automation that significantly reduced incident and deployment times.

My work spans infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, containers, and enterprise integrations — from migrating hundreds of repositories and accounts to optimising GitHub Actions and EKS architectures. I’ve driven security improvements through AWS Security Hub, IAM best practices, and automated remediation workflows, consistently improving compliance and reducing incidents.

I enjoy leading cross-functional teams, sharing knowledge, and delivering measurable business value through cost savings, faster provisioning, and resilient architectures. I seek roles where I can continue driving secure, automated cloud transformations at scale.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

AWS Consultant

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BJSS

Aug 2023 - Present (2 years 2 months)

Led cloud engineering and security initiatives for enterprise clients including IAG and NHS Login, reducing incident response time by 65% and maintaining 99.99% deployment success for a platform serving 42M+ users.

AWS Terraform CI CD GitHub Actions Security Hub Infrastructure as Code Incident Response

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Contractor Developer

Current

Twosvn Ltd

Apr 2015 - Present (10 years 6 months)

Led development and delivery of serverless and web applications for diverse clients using MERN and AWS, implementing CI/CD and security automation to improve deployment reliability and performance.

AWS Lambda AWS Amplify Docker MySQL JavaScript PHP

Associate ProServe Specialist

Amazon Web Services

Aug 2022 - Aug 2023 (1 year)

Delivered security and migration engagements, led large-scale AWS migrations and control tower implementations that reduced account provisioning time from 20 days to 1 day and saved customers significant costs.

AWS IAM Security Hub Control Tower Terraform EKS ECS CloudFormation DevOps Migration

Professional Service Consultant

Amazon Web Services

Aug 2021 - Aug 2022 (1 year)

Implemented infrastructure automation and cost-optimisation solutions using Terraform, Ansible and serverless patterns, reducing storage costs by 47% and database costs by 35% in month one.

Terraform Ansible CloudFormation Serverless IAM CloudTrail Jenkins Cost Optimization

Technology Consultant

Citrix Systems

Aug 2019 - Sep 2021 (2 years 1 month)

Led consulting engagements and client-facing projects across EMEA, delivering technical solutions and knowledge-sharing initiatives to improve collaboration between Sales Engineering and Professional Services.