Senior DevOps Engineer · Pennsylvania / Remote

David Vavra

Platform Engineering

12+ years designing and operating production systems at Phoenix Contact — from AWS infrastructure and CI/CD automation to enterprise identity with Okta. I build platforms that scale globally and stay reliable under pressure.

What I Do

I specialize in the infrastructure layer — making deployment, security, and observability invisible problems for development teams.

Recent Win

60 min 10 min

Architected a blue/green deployment strategy for AWS RDS PostgreSQL upgrades, cutting database downtime by over 80% through targeted automation and release process improvements.

Tech Stack

Tools I work with regularly in production environments.

AWS Terraform Ansible Docker GitLab CI/CD AWS CodePipeline AWS CodeBuild Okta OAuth 2.0 / OIDC SAML NGINX OpenResty Akamai CDN/WAF CloudWatch OpenSearch Dynatrace ECS Fargate CloudFront Python Bash PostgreSQL Linux