Antônio Marcos D.

Manager Colo Regional Engineering LatAm@AWS | Electrical & Telecommunication Engineer | Datacenter Engineering

Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil

About

A 30-year career dedicated to ensuring operational excellence and strategic growth in mission-critical environments across Latin America. Recognized for leading high-performance organizations and for financial acumen in managing P&L and budgets (OpEx + CapEx), ensuring capacity delivery, maximum availability and adherence to stringent SLAs. Focused on the engineering and risk analysis for the infrastructure that supports Hyperscale Datacenters. Planning & Design Engineering for Critical Infrastructure for Datacenter & Satellite Teleports, Fiber Optic, RF Transmission, Satellite & Microwave, Project Management (PMI), Telecom Systems, Datacenter Uptime ATD, Solar Energy System (PVSyst), Electrical Systems, Operational Routines for Mission Critical in Datacenter and Teleport.

Experience

  • Colocation Regional Engineering Manager – Latin America at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
    Jan 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 6 mos

    Leading the Colocation Regional Engineering (CRE) team across Latin America, driving regional strategy through the development and retention of high-performing engineering talent. Responsible for overseeing end-to-end colocation projects to deliver scalable capacity, optimize infrastructure, and enhance fleet availability across the region. Provides cross-country technical leadership spanning site evaluations, design support, commissioning, audits, capacity improvements, and operational excellence for data center facilities. Partners closely with DC Engineering, Network/Hardware Engineering, and Data Center Services teams to drive infrastructure deployment, new rack type rollouts, and tooling/automation initiatives. Leads regional efforts in new infrastructure product integration, colocation assessment standards, and capacity enablement programs — ensuring alignment between engineering execution and business scalability goals across the LatAm region.

  • Head of Critical Infrastructure at Sencinet
    Oct 2020 - Jan 2024 · 3 yrs 4 mos

    Head of the planning & design engineering for mission critical infrastructure management team in LatAm region

  • Regional Technology Support Manager, SR at British Telecom
    Oct 2007 - Oct 2020 · 13 yrs 1 mo

    Manage the LatAm Infrastructure Engineering Planning Team responsible for the Infrastructure Planning & Design of the BT Sites in LatAm region. Manage the Project Management Team in LatAm Region responsible for the implementation of Core Network, Satellite and Infrastructure projects.

  • International Project Manager at COMSAT do Brasil
    Aug 1999 - Jul 2007 · 8 yrs

    Management of the international telecommunication projects in LatAm region; Participation on the Delivery of the major satellite projects in Brazil (Caixa Lotteries, GESAC, Bradesco, NEC/Telemar);

  • GMS Operator at IRIDIUM Sudamerica
    May 1997 - Oct 1999 · 2 yrs 6 mos

    Elaboration of practices and operational procedures; participation on the activation tests of the Satellite Gateway systems and operational trial.