Senior DevOps / DevSecOps engineer · remote

Infrastructure that survives outages and costs less

I set up off-site backups, high-availability PostgreSQL and MySQL, and move workloads to cheaper hosting. So a provider failure costs you a couple of hours — not your data, and not your business.

The audit is free, with no obligation. You get a fixed quote after it.

Production down right now? Message me on Telegram with where you're hosted and what's left. I'll give you an honest assessment and a recovery plan.

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The real risk

Every provider fails eventually. Not everyone loses data

Data centers lose power, clouds get hacked, accounts get suspended. Companies that recover in hours have one thing in common — they planned for it. The ones that don't usually have one of these:

01

Backups in the same blast radius

If your backups live with the same provider as your servers, they go down together. That's a copy, not a backup.

02

Nobody has tested a restore

The backup exists, but it's incomplete, corrupted, or nobody knows how to bring it back. You find out at the worst possible moment.

03

Hand-built servers and growing bills

No documentation, no code — moving takes weeks. So you stay put and keep paying more for the same cloud.

Services

What I do

From a single VPS to production database clusters. Fixed scope, fixed price.

free

Resilience audit

Where your data and backups live, what happens if your provider disappears, and how long recovery would take.

  • plain-language risk report
  • prioritised fix list
  • fixed-price quote

Off-site backups & DR

Backups to a second provider, plus a disaster recovery plan you've actually rehearsed.

  • pgBackRest, restic, S3
  • encryption and retention
  • scheduled test restores
  • RTO/RPO and a runbook

High-availability databases

PostgreSQL and MySQL clusters that survive a node failure without data loss.

  • Patroni, etcd, PgBouncer
  • Galera, Percona XtraDB, InnoDB Cluster
  • performance tuning

Cloud cost reduction

Move workloads from expensive clouds to cost-effective providers — without losing reliability.

  • migration with minimal downtime
  • multi-provider setups
  • right-sizing

CI/CD & Kubernetes

Automated build and deploy, containers, security checks built into the pipeline.

  • GitLab CI, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm
  • Terraform, Ansible, Packer
  • DevSecOps practices

Fractional DevOps

A senior engineer for a few hours a week — cheaper than a full-time hire.

  • Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, PMM, Zabbix
  • backup monitoring
  • updates and security
How it works

From first message to done

Reach out

Fill in the form or message me on Telegram: where you're hosted and what worries you.

Free audit

I review your current setup and show you the risks.

Quote

Scope, timeline and a fixed price. Contract and NDA.

Delivery

I do the work, prove it with a test restore, and hand over docs and access.

Experience

Problems I've solved

Most of my work is under NDA, so no client names here. Happy to go into detail on a call.

Critical systems

High-availability PostgreSQL cluster

Goal: a database that survives any node failure with no data loss and no manual intervention.

Result: automatic failover, connection pooling, point-in-time recovery, query and replication monitoring.

PostgreSQLPatronietcdPgBouncerpgBackRestPMM
Online services

HA MySQL clusters and analytics

Goal: remove single points of failure from busy databases and move analytics off production.

Result: load-balanced clusters plus a separate analytics cluster.

InnoDB ClusterGaleraPercona XtraDBMySQL RouterHAProxyClickHouse
Distributed infra

Monitoring for remote server fleets

Goal: full visibility into a large, geographically distributed fleet.

Result: one monitoring system with alerting — problems are caught before users notice.

ZabbixPrometheusGrafanaLoki
Cloud

Infrastructure as code

Goal: stop building servers by hand.

Result: the whole environment is defined in code and rebuilt automatically — which is exactly what makes moving providers fast.

TerraformAnsiblePackerSemaphore
Engineering

CI/CD and secure delivery

Goal: automate build and deploy, add security checks.

Result: GitLab CI pipelines, containerised apps on Kubernetes, DevSecOps built into the workflow.

GitLab CIDockerKubernetesHelmNGINXKeepalived
About

An engineer, not an agency

You work directly with me — no account managers, no juniors learning on your project. My day job is running production infrastructure that isn't allowed to go down.

FAQ

Common questions

We had no backups at all. Can anything be saved?

It depends. Sometimes data survives at the provider, in caches, on developer machines or in old exports. Nobody can guarantee recovery in that case, but I'll give you an honest assessment quickly — and make sure it never happens again.

We're a small team with one server. Is this for us?

Yes. Small setups get simple solutions: automated off-site backups for files and databases, plus a short guide for bringing everything up elsewhere.

How much does it cost?

The audit is free. After it, you get a fixed price based on data volume, number of servers and recovery-time requirements. The price is agreed before any work starts.

How do you handle access and security?

Dedicated accounts with least privilege, SSH keys instead of passwords, and an NDA. When the work is done, access is handed back or revoked.

What time zone do you work in?

UTC+3. That's the same working day as Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia, and overlaps with US East Coast mornings.

Do you offer ongoing support?

Yes — monitoring, backup checks, updates. Response times are agreed in the contract.

Free audit

Tell me about your setup

Fill in a couple of fields and I'll reply by email within one business day. Or write to me directly:

vignat1002@gmail.comTelegram