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Founded on strong business ethics, we are an equal opportunity organisation powered by 300+ experienced professionals, partnering with 400+ digital agencies across the US, UK, Canada, Europe, and Australia. At E2M, we value ownership, consistency, and people who are committed to doing meaningful work and growing together. If you’re someone who dreams big and has the gumption to make them come true, E2M has a place for you
About The Role
We are looking for a highly skilled Senior System Administrator / DevOps Engineer with strong expertise in AWS, Linux, DevOps workflows, Docker, and especially WordPress & WordPress Multisite management. The ideal candidate will be responsible for hosting, troubleshooting, optimizing, and securing WordPress applications across various cloud and managed hosting platforms.
Key Responsibilities
AWS Infrastructure Management
- Manage and optimize EC2 instances, security groups, EBS volumes, and networking.
- Deploy and maintain ECS clusters (EC2 + Fargate).
- Configure ELB/ALB, autoscaling, and fault-tolerant architectures.
- Manage Elasticache (Redis/Memcached).
- Work with OpenSearch (Elasticsearch).
- Manage RDS (MariaDB/MySQL & Aurora).
- Create and tune ASG policies.
- Manage S3, CloudFront, and lifecycle rules.
- Work with Elastic Transcoder for video workflows.
- AWS CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy — CI/CD pipelines.
- Create and maintain AMIs and Amazon Linux 2 systems.
- Administer Amazon Linux, Ubuntu, and CentOS.
- Mount and manage storage volumes.
- Troubleshoot OS & performance issues.
- Bash scripting for automation.
- Configure automated backups and cron jobs.
- Build Docker images, networks, and multi-container stacks.
- Write and optimize Docker Compose files.
- Push/manage images in AWS ECR.
- Deploy Docker workloads on ECS.
- Experience with Docker Swarm (optional).
This is a core skill requirement. The candidate must have deep practical experience in:
WordPress Hosting & Management
- Deploy, configure, and maintain WordPress single-site and multisite installations.
- Experience with high-traffic WordPress hosting setups.
- Set up Nginx or Apache for WordPress performance optimization.
- Configure php-fpm, caching layers, Redis object cache, OPCache, FastCGI, etc.
- Manage WP-CLI for automation and troubleshooting.
- Configure secure file permissions, read-only hosting, and hardening.
- Debug plugin/theme conflicts, slow queries, server-level performance issues.
- Investigate PHP errors, fatal errors, 5xx issues, resource overuse.
- Identify issues using logs (Nginx/Apache, PHP-FPM, MySQL, CloudWatch, NewRelic).
- Handling common plugins (WooCommerce, membership systems, page builders).
- Configure SSL, redirects, CDN integrations, and caching plugins.
- Expert understanding of WordPress Multisite network setup and domain mapping.
- Optimize MySQL/MariaDB for WordPress workloads.
- Fix corrupted tables, slow queries, metadata locks, etc.
- Deploy WordPress, Laravel, Node.js apps using Nginx/Apache.
- Configure Certbot (including standalone mode for Docker).
- Proxy Node.js apps behind Nginx.
- Experience with Bitnami WordPress stacks.
- Setup development environments (LAMP, MAMP, Docker-based setups).
- Manage GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket repositories.
- Implement CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
- Hands-on experience with:
- AWS
- DigitalOcean
- Azure
- Google Cloud
- UpCloud, Linode, Hetzner, etc.
- Must be comfortable working with:
- WPEngine
- Kinsta
- Flywheel
- CloudWays
- GridPane
- Pagely
- Pantheon
- Use New Relic, CloudWatch, and related tools.
- Implement server health monitoring and performance dashboards.
- Diagnose bottlenecks and recommend improvements.
- 5+ years of System Admin / DevOps experience.
- Strong Linux + AWS experience.
- Deep WordPress (single + multisite) skills — mandatory.
- Solid Docker and CI/CD expertise.
- Ability to troubleshoot at OS, server, and application levels.
- Terraform / IaC.
- AWS ECS
- DNS, CDN, Cloudflare, and WAF security.
- General web security best practices.
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