David Navarro
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Available for contract work

Senior DevOps, on a contract basis.

Short-term and project-based engagements for startups and small teams that need a Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer, without making the hire yet. AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, and the internal tooling that holds it all together.

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Remote from Charlotte, NCHourly or fixed-scope2-12 week engagements

Services

What I can build for you

  • AWS architecture & cost

    Greenfield AWS setup or an audit of an existing account. Networking, IAM, and cost cuts that survive the next quarter.

    • Multi-account orgs
    • VPC + networking
    • Cost review & savings

  • Terraform & IaC

    Move click-ops to Terraform with modules and state structure that a small team can safely operate.

    • Module design
    • Remote state + locking
    • Plan/apply pipelines

  • CI/CD pipelines

    CircleCI, Jenkins, or GitHub Actions tuned for fast, safe deploys. Blue/green, canary, ephemeral envs.

    • Pipeline design
    • Ephemeral environments
    • Progressive delivery

  • Kubernetes & containers

    EKS / GKE clusters and the Helm + ArgoCD plumbing around them. Workloads that scale and recover without paging anyone.

    • Cluster setup
    • GitOps with Argo
    • Autoscaling + HPA

  • Platform reliability & security

    Observability with Datadog, on-call setup, incident process, and a security baseline you can defend in an audit.

    • SLOs + alerting
    • IAM + WAF hardening
    • Wiz / Snyk integration

  • Internal tooling

    Small Next.js / Node services and dashboards that unblock your team. The ops tools no one has time to build.

    • Admin dashboards
    • Slack + GitHub bots
    • Glue scripts that stick

Engagement

How I work

Async-first

Weekly written updates and a shared channel. Works across time zones.

Remote, EN / ES

US East hours by default. Bilingual English / Spanish.

Senior-only

I work the engagement myself. No juniors handed the keys.

Process

How it works

  1. 01

    30-min intro call

    You explain the problem, I tell you whether I'm the right fit. No charge.

  2. 02

    Written scope

    One page covering deliverables, timeline, and pricing (hourly or fixed).

  3. 03

    The work

    Async with a shared channel and a weekly written update. Demos when it helps.

  4. 04

    Handoff

    Docs, runbooks, and a walkthrough so your team owns it after I'm gone.

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