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).
