Marcio Silva
Capacity Manager @TransUnion
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WORK HISTORY
Capacity Manager @TransUnion
Leeds, GB
Own Capacity Management and FinOps cost optimisation across Products, Datacentres, VMware, and Azure/GCP/AWS, translating technical utilisation into financial outcomes and risk forecasts.Produce and present monthly Capacity & FinOps packs to Infrastructure and business leadership including: cloud run-rate, forecast vs budget, variance drivers, top services/products, capacity risk, and optimisation roadmap.Built capacity policies and processes from the ground up, ensuring audit-ready controls and evidence aligned to ISO 27001 and internal governance.Partner with engineering and product stakeholders to review requirements and provide strategic recommendations on performance, scaling, and cost efficiency.Chair and present the monthly Capacity Forum and FinOps Cloud Cost optimisation, driving accountability, decision-making, and delivery of the first Capacity Plan (rolling forecast with risk/actions).Delivered reduction ~£150k/year cloud by driving a structured waste-removal programme—decommissioning unused servers, downgrading Premium SSD to Standard SSD, and eliminating orphaned disks—with ownership controls and Cloudability-backed reporting.
EDUCATION
Universidade Santa Cecília
Bachelor's degree, Computer Sciences, Computer Sciences
UNIBTA - Centro Universitário
Post Graduation - ORACLE, Ciência da Computação
SKILLS
ABOUT MARCIO SILVA
I’m an IT Capacity & Performance Manager and FinOps Lead with 15+ years’ experience delivering monitoring, planning and optimisation across hybrid environments (on-prem and cloud) to achieve business outcomes.I lead internal teams and third-party suppliers, manage CAPEX/OPEX, and have built Capacity & Performance Management functions from scratch—governance, reporting, demand forecasting and executive forums.I also bring hands-on Cloud FinOps across Azure, AWS and GCP, implementing cost allocation (tagging/ownership), showback/chargeback, budgeting and forecasting, spend attribution and variance drivers, and a continuous optimisation lifecycle (identify, prioritise, deliver, measure), including waste elimination.I’ve delivered measurable results, including ~£150k+ per year cost reduction through right-sizing recommendations across VMware/Nutanix and cloud infrastructure, and I’m experienced operating business-critical estates of servers with enterprise tooling across observability, virtualisation, storage/backup, databases and tools (Splunk, VMware/vROps, Cloudability, Harness, NetApp, Commvault, Oracle, SQL Server).Areas of ExpertiseFinOps Lead, Cloud Financial Management, Cost allocation (tagging & ownership), Showback/chargeback, Budgeting & forecasting (run-rate, variance), Unit economics, Optimisation governance (backlog & KPIs), Waste elimination (idle resources, orphaned assets), Rightsizing, Storage tiering (Premium→Standard), Guardrails & anomaly detection, Capacity & performance management, Stakeholder & vendor management, CAPEX/OPEX, Azure, AWS, GCP, VMware/vROps, Cloudability, Power BI, Splunk, Dynatrace, Nutanix, NetApp, Commvault, Oracle, SQL Server, ITIL Foundation.Professional Certifications:ITIL® Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management V3 and V4Green IT CitizenInformation Security Foundation based on ISO/IEC 27001EXIN Foundation in IT Service ManagementCloud Computing Foundation Certificate (CLOUDF)Certified Integrator in Secure Cloud Services (CI-SCS)EXIN DevOps ProfessionalFinOps Practitioner
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