Debra Froehlich
Senior DevOps / Cloud Engineer
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Senior DevOps and Cloud Engineer with extensive experience designing and automating cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring platforms. Proven ability to architect scalable cloud environments, implement Infrastructure as Code, and automate deployments across AWS-based systems. Expert in Terraform, Ansible, Docker, GitHub Actions, and cloud observability solutions.
Strong background in full-stack development and enterprise systems, enabling effective collaboration between development and operations teams to deliver reliable and scalable production environments.
Experience
Infrastructure & CI/CD Team Lead / DevOps Engineer - Shop Online New York - Remote
(2025-04)
Lead DevOps architecture and infrastructure automation for a cloud-based e-commerce platform.
- Designed and implemented Prometheus and Grafana observability platform for monitoring cloud infrastructure and containerized workloads.
- Implemented container monitoring using Node Exporter, cAdvisor, and MySQL exporter.
- Developed GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines to build, test, and deploy frontend applications to AWS S3 static hosting.
- Implemented automated container build and deployment pipelines for Java backend services.
- Developed reusable GitHub Actions workflows integrating Ansible for automated Docker container deployment to EC2 instances.
- Built Terraform infrastructure modules provisioning AWS RDS MySQL environments including private subnets, route tables, and NAT gateways.
- Automated infrastructure provisioning using Terraform and HCP Terraform Cloud.
- Implemented Ansible configuration management for EC2 hosts including Docker installation, Java runtime configuration, and application deployment.
- Developed Docker Compose deployments for MySQL and Adminer services for development environments.
Cloud / DevOps Engineer - Acclaim Technical Services - Herndon, VA
(2021-10 - 2022-05)
- Installed and configured Jenkins CI/CD platform on AWS EC2.
- Developed Jenkins pipelines automating application build, test, and deployment processes from GitLab repositories.
- Implemented Ansible automation to configure Jenkins build environments.
- Enhanced AWS CDK infrastructure code written in Python to automate provisioning of cloud resources.
Software Engineer (Contract) - Sphinx Solutions - Reston, VA
(2021-05 - 2021-10)
- Developed Python-based web scraping applications deployed as AWS Lambda functions.
- Implemented serverless infrastructure using AWS CDK with Python.
- Built scheduled Lambda workflows for automated recurring data collection.
Principal Cloud / DevOps Engineer - MissionTech Solutions (Avantus Federal) - Reston, VA
(2020-10 - 2021-05)
- Conducted enterprise-wide DevOps tool assessment and analysis to evaluate platform usage and dependencies.
- Led upgrade of GitHub Enterprise from version 2.19 to 2.22 including high-availability backup environment.
- Administered enterprise DevOps platforms including GitHub Enterprise, Jira, and Confluence.
- Served as technical lead for Authority to Operate (A&A) compliance for enterprise DevOps tooling.
Senior Software Engineer - Navstar Inc. - Reston, VA
(2019-06 - 2020-09)
- Designed automated infrastructure provisioning using Terraform and Ansible.
- Developed Jenkins CI/CD pipelines for automated infrastructure creation and application deployment.
- Provisioned AWS infrastructure for web and database servers.
- Automated deployment of TypeScript/Java applications and Neo4j database services.
- Developed Bash automation scripts for infrastructure configuration and application builds.
Senior Lead Technologist - Booz Allen Hamilton - Herndon, VA
(2018-05 - 2019-06)
- Developed Jenkins pipelines for automated Windows 10 image builds in AWS environments.
- Implemented Terraform scripts for EC2 infrastructure provisioning.
- Developed cloud-based ASP.NET MVC Core applications supporting operational field site management.
Enterprise Web Applications and Consulting Services - Earlier Career
Delivered enterprise web applications and consulting services for organizations including: Calibre Systems, CACI International, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Department of State, Pitney Bowes, and Hanger Orthopedic Group.
- Technologies included ASP.NET, C#, SQL Server, Oracle, SharePoint, WCF, and enterprise reporting systems.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Spanish and Spanish Literature - Fordham University
