Jelastic/Virtuozzo System Engineer - Remote

Your #1 trusted resource for BuddyPress and WordPress powered communities. Our products and custom development services help businesses across the globe, in building community platforms on WordPress and BuddyPress. **

The Role**

Your Responsibilities Will Include

• Working in a team on the deployment, operation, maintenance, and scalability of PaaS infrastructure utilizing containerized WordPress as a service across multiple regions
• Maintaining and ensuring continued reliability, scalability, and security of PaaS infrastructure.
• Monitoring and investigation of PasS operational issues.
• Working with onboarding team to assist with WordPress platform migrations
• Working with support team to address escalated hosting issues
• Performing day to day maintenance tasks
• Working closely with internal and external teams to ensure best practices are applied consistently.

Ideal Profile

• Min. 3 years experience in IT
• Experience with LiteSpeed Enterprise web hosting infrastructure
• Proficiency in Linux Administration (CentOS/Debian/Ubuntu most preferred)
• Proficiency in building and maintaining AWS-based infrastructure (EC2, S3, SQS, SES, etc.)
• Min. 2 years experience with WordPress environment preparation and deployment.
• Min. 2 years experience with shell scripting in Bash
• Experience building, deploying, and managing Docker/Kubernetes,
• Experience with server virtualization technology such as KVM, Vmware
• Experience with enterprise-scale server/web hosting
• Database experience (both SQL and NoSQL, including MySQL and Redis)
• Experience with GitLab CI/CD, CircleCI, deployHQ, Jenkins, Bitbucket Pipelines, or similar
• Experience with version control systems (preferred Git)

Previous Experience / Nice To Have

• Experience with OpenStack / Virtuozzo infrastructure
• Experience with JPS / Jelastic Cloud Scripting
• Experience with programming in at least one language (ideally PHP)
• Experience with PHP frameworks (ideally Wordpress and Laraval)
• Experience in a DevOps, infrastructure, systems, or equivalent role
• Experience with monitoring and alerting tools such as Zabbix New Relic, Datadog, etc.
• Experience applying cloud security best practices and maintaining compliance.
• Experience with ElasticSearch/OpenSearch technologies
• Redhat or AWS certificates (would be considered a plus)
• Experience with backup and recovery best practices

What's on Offer?

• Opportunity for growth and development
• Join a team of world class IT professionals
• Comprehensive salary package