Victor Ferreira

DevOps | Cloud | Platform Engineer | SRE

DevOps & Cloud Engineer with 8+ years in the field, designing, automating, and operating cloud-native infrastructure at scale.

01. Professional Experience

DevOps Engineer @ EllisDon

Jul 2026 – Present | Hybrid (Mississauga, ON, Canada)

  • • Joined the team to streamline, manage, and optimize DevOps-related operations across AWS, Azure, and GCP cloud environments.

DevOps Engineer @ Livvie

Apr 2025 – Jul 2026 | Remote (USA)

  • • Reduced AWS monthly billing by 25% through resource auditing, right-sizing ECS tasks, and eliminating redundant Load Balancer configurations.
  • • Re-architected CI/CD pipelines for six core applications, improving DevOps maturity and reducing deployment times by 40% for a 4-person team.
  • • Defined and enforced SLOs and SLIs for critical services, maintaining 99.9% uptime and influencing AWS architectural decisions for enhanced reliability.
  • • Managed full AWS cloud infrastructure lifecycle for 10+ production applications, including provisioning, security hardening, and capacity planning.
  • • Automated incident resolution with alarms, reducing resolution times by ~40% and improving service delivery.
  • • Mentored junior engineers in DevOps best practices through workshops and pair programming.

Systems Development Specialist @ Encora Inc.

Apr 2024 – Jan 2025 | Remote (Brazil)

  • • Decreased average incident resolution time by 30% by automating build and deployment processes across 100+ internal services using Jenkins and Argo CD.
  • • Accelerated data synchronization by 100%+ through automated backend services in Go, enhancing user experience by reducing manual, error-prone processes.
  • • Engineered a self-service deployment platform on AWS using Go, Jenkins, Argo CD, and Terraform, enabling 30+ teams to configure GitOps workflows via YAML.

Senior Software Engineer @ Livvie

Nov 2022 – Mar 2024 | Remote (USA)

  • • Increased system scalability by 100%+ by migrating workloads from a single EC2 instance to a managed AWS ECS Fargate cluster with Elastic Load Balancers.
  • • Drove 100%+ improvement in team efficiency and deployment times by building infrastructure and automating pipelines with GitHub Actions.
  • • Improved system resilience by ~40% by introducing asynchronous processing via SQS queues and ElastiCache (Redis), decoupling critical service dependencies.
  • • Established centralized observability by shipping structured logs and performance metrics to AWS CloudWatch, reducing incident detection time by 50%+.
  • • Configured CloudWatch alarm-driven auto-scaling policies, achieving 15% cost savings through reduced over-provisioning.

Software Engineer @ Red Ventures

Jan 2022 – Oct 2022 | Remote (Brazil)

  • • Drove a 24% increase in mortgage credit conversion rates by optimizing multi-step financial data processing workflows.
  • • Collaborated on large-scale ETL pipelines and microservices integrating sensitive banking data for real estate investment recommendations.

02. Technical Arsenal

Cloud & Infra

  • AWS • GCP • Azure
  • Terraform / IaC
  • Kubernetes / Docker

CI/CD & Automation

  • GitHub Actions • Azure Pipelines
  • Jenkins • Argo CD
  • N8N automation workflows

Languages

  • Go (Golang)
  • Python
  • JavaScript / TypeScript
  • Shell / Bash • SQL

Observability

  • OpenTelemetry
  • AWS CloudWatch
  • New Relic • Sentry
  • SLO / SLI design

Databases

  • PostgreSQL / MySQL
  • Redis / MongoDB

Security & Other

  • IAM / DevSecOps
  • HashiCorp Vault secrets
  • VPC design
  • Linux / Unix
  • Agile / Scrum

03. Education & Certifications

Education

Conestoga College — Canada

Post-Graduate Certificate

Web Development

2026

Universidade Federal de Goiás — Brazil

Bachelor of Engineering

Electrical Engineering

2017

Certifications

Developing Serverless Solutions on AWS

Amazon Web Services · 2022

Architecting on AWS

Amazon Web Services · 2022

AWS Technical Essentials

Amazon Web Services · 2022

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

CNCF · In Progress