Rodrigo Amarante
DevOps Team Lead DISH NETWORK (US MARKET) at Amdocs
Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolRodrigo Amarante is a Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer with nine years of experience building and operating telecom-grade, cloud-native systems on AWS, specializing in Kubernetes (EKS) and 4G/5G Packet Core workloads. He leads DevOps initiatives that combine Infrastructure as Code, GitOps (ArgoCD), and CI/CD practices to deliver highly available, multi-AZ platforms for mission-critical network functions like AMF, SMF, UPF and UDM. Rodrigo’s background as a Packet Core solution lead and hands-on operator gives him deep expertise in networking, performance tuning, and incident response across distributed systems. He has a track record of reducing operational overhead through automation, formalizing MOPs for safe rollouts, and driving cross-team coordination with vendors and cloud providers. Comfortable with international roles and authorized to work in the U.S. on an H-1B, he holds dual Brazilian and Portuguese citizenship and combines telecom domain depth with cloud-platform engineering. An interesting facet: he progressed from radio-core engineering and capacity planning into cloud DevOps, bringing practical telecom operational insight to modern cloud-native platforms.
9 years of coding experience
Centre of English Studies - CES DublinPostgraduate Degree, Postgraduate Degree at UFRJ - Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroPostgraduate Degree, Postgraduate Degree at UFF - Universidade Federal FluminenseElectrical Engineering with emphasis on Telecommunications, Electrical Engineering with emphasis on Telecommunications at Instituto Nacional de Telecomunicações - Inatel
Portuguese, English, Spanish
Github Skills (1)
rio6
Github contributions (5)
rodrigocka/santana
Aug 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
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