Devops Offline

We are building Gepard PIM — an AI-enhanced Product Information Management platform tailored for the e-commerce industry. It helps brands, retailers, and marketplaces efficiently collect, enrich, validate, and syndicate product content across multiple sales channels.
Gepard actively integrates AI-powered features to improve enrichment, validation, recognition, mapping, data extraction, and content generation. We are looking for freelance devops
 

Tech stack:
- Ensure the stability and performance of our DigitalOcean-hosted infrastructure using Docker, GitLab CI/CD, and monitoring tools such as UptimeRobot and Sentry. Manage and optimise core services, including MongoDB, Redis, ElasticSearch, and Qdrant, to support high-performance data operations and AI-driven workflows.
- Work with a diverse technology stack that includes PHP 8.1, Yii 2.0, ReactPHP, and Python (used in AI services), enabling robust microservice communication and scalable backend performance.
- Support the deployment and orchestration of containerised Python services, including AI agents built with LangChain and LangGraph. - Collaborate with backend and AI teams to ensure secure, automated, and efficient infrastructure operations aligned with e-commerce product information management needs.
- Be a part of a platform where DevOps excellence fuels innovation in AI-powered content automation and intelligent product data delivery.

Requirements
 

- Proven experience in server management and maintenance, ideally with DigitalOcean infrastructure.

- Strong understanding of system security, performance monitoring, and incident response protocols.

- Ability to quickly diagnose and resolve issues in a part-time setup.

- Familiarity with DevOps tools and best practices, including CI/CD processes, containerization, and configuration management.

- Solid knowledge of Linux server environments, basic scripting (Bash/Python), and networking.

- Responsiveness to critical issues within an agreed response time (typically 2–8 hours).

- Good communication skills - able to clearly explain technical issues to non-technical stakeholders.

- Experience with Agile/Scrum, Jira

- Comfortable with sprint planning, estimations, and mentoring developers.

- Technical English proficiency.

Key Responsibilities
 

- Maintain and update server configurations and apply critical security patches.

- Monitor infrastructure health and performance on DigitalOcean, proactively identifying and resolving issues.

- Act as first responder for system incidents and ensure timely resolution of outages or performance degradation.

- Optimise infrastructure for reliability, scalability, and performance, including cost-efficiency improvements.

- Support and improve CI/CD pipelines to streamline deployment and release processes.

- Collaborate with backend, AI, and product teams to align infrastructure with evolving project needs.

- Participate in periodic system reviews, provide documentation, and share updates with the team.

Nice to have
 

- Familiarity with IaC tools such as Terraform or Ansible.

- Knowledge of CI/CD setup and automation using GitLab pipelines or similar.

- Experience in deploying and maintaining monitoring solutions (e.g., Grafana, ELK stack).

- Experience supporting containerised environments (Docker, Docker Compose).

- Experience with log aggregation and alerting mechanisms.

- General understanding of infrastructure needs for AI/ML applications (e.g., vector databases, GPU optimisation, model deployment pipelines).

- Experience in e-commerce, PIM/DAM platforms, or marketplaces.

- Experience working in a No QA team model

- Interest in AI tools for development

- Ability to assist with scaling infrastructure for multi-tenant SaaS platforms.

Working conditions
~20 hours per month, with flexibility to increase if needed.