DevOps Engineer (WordPress & Hosting)

Role overview

DevOps Engineer (WordPress & Hosting) at Brainstorm Force

Brainstorm Force is a product-based software company that builds Word Press products and Saa S applications, while also hosting Word Press production sites for customers.

We are looking for a skilled and motivated Dev Ops Engineer with 2–3 years of experience to help maintain the performance, security, availability, and scalability of our infrastructure.

The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience managing customer hosting environments on c Panel, Word Press/PHP servers running on Nginx and Lite Speed, and Laravel and Next.js Saa S applications deployed on bare-metal servers and VPS environments.

You will also leverage AI tools like Claude in your day-to-day work to troubleshoot issues, build automation, and document solutions more efficiently, while ensuring that every production change is reliable, secure, and well-tested.

Employment Remote JOB TYPE Full-time LOCATION India EXPERIENCE 2-3 Years

Responsibilities

• Word Press/PHP servers: Run and tune Nginx + PHP-FPM and Lite Speed/Open Lite Speed stacks with My SQL/Maria DB and Redis.
• Fix slow sites, 5xx errors, memory exhaustion and database bottlenecks.
• Saa S infrastructure: Deploy and maintain Laravel (queues, Horizon/Supervisor, schedulers) and Next.js (Node/PM2) apps on bare metal and VPS.
• Run zero-downtime deployments with clear rollback plans.
• Customer hosting (c Panel/WHM): Maintain the servers that host our customers’ production Word Press sites.
• Handle account setup and migrations, PHP version management, resource limits, malware cleanup and email deliverability.
• Diagnose and fix server-level issues on customer sites.
• Edge and networking: Own DNS, Cloudflare (WAF, caching rules, SSL modes), CDN setup and load balancing across our services.
• Improve performance through CDN and caching (Cloudflare, server-side caching, Redis object cache).
• Cloud services and reliability: Manage AWS S3 storage, SES email sending and IAM access, following least-privilege practices.
• Run monitoring, alerting, backups with tested restores, patching, SSH hardening, firewalls and SSL/TLS certificates.
• Respond to incidents and write clear root-cause reports.
• Document infrastructure and fixes so the team can work from shared runbooks, and work with development teams to scale applications and improve performance.
• AI-assisted operations: Use Claude to troubleshoot, write scripts and Ansible playbooks, review configs and keep runbooks current.
• Automate routine tasks with shell scripting, Ansible and other tools.
• Check AI output before running it, and never share customer data or credentials with it.
• You must have these skills:​ 2–3 years working on Linux production servers over SSH.
• Hosted and maintained Word Press/PHP sites at server level: reading logs, fixing 500/502 errors, slow sites, PHP and memory issues.
• Working knowledge of DNS, Cloudflare/CDN, SSL, and the basics of how load balancing works.
• My SQL/Maria DB basics: backups, restores, finding slow queries.
• Redis working knowledge: installing and securing it (no public exposure, password/ACL), Word Press object caching, Laravel cache/queue/session use, and basic memory and eviction settings.
• Working knowledge of core AWS services: S3: buckets, access policies, storing backups and assets, lifecycle rules SES: domain verification, SPF/DKIM/DMARC, handling bounces and complaints, leaving the sandbox IAM: users vs. roles, least-privilege policies, access keys and why to avoid long-lived ones Uses Claude or similar AI tools in daily technical work, and checks the output before running it.
• Good-to-Have skills: c Panel/WHM server administration or shared-hosting infrastructure experience Lite Speed/Open Lite Speed, PHP-FPM tuning Deploying Laravel or Node.js/Next.js apps; PM2/Supervisor Load balancer setup (Nginx, HAProxy, cloud LB) AWS Cloud Front and other AWS services (EC2, Route 53, Cloud Watch) Bash scripting, Ansible, Docker, CI/CD Who are we?
• We are a team of designers, developers, and marketers.
• As one of the most successful Word Press product companies globally, we have built an exciting place to work.
• We’re revolutionizing how people create websites and save money, time, and stress and empower web professionals to make beautiful websites faster than ever.
• Our talented team creates products that help web professionals improve and simplify their lives.
• Our diverse group of individuals from all over the world ( India, US, UK, Philippines, Indonesia, Serbia, Romania, and more) work with a shared passion for product development and creating an outstanding user experience.
• Join a team of smart, ambitious, driven people who value open communication and processes.
• What do we offer you?
• We believe in working closely and bringing the best out in each other.
• We’re a fun, supportive, and creative group of individuals.
• We’ll offer you: Competitive pay 💰 Work from anywhere.
• The opportunity to learn and grow in a fast-growing team.
• We don’t micro-manage.
• Manage your own time as you see fit 💁 Flexible work environment – We believe that people work best when they have the freedom to work from wherever they choose.
• We don’t care where you are so long as you get the work done.
• Fun atmosphere – let your hair down now and then.
• Challenging tasks – Equip yourself by tackling new challenges.
• Limitless ability to grow within the company.
• Many of our employees have been with us for more than 5 years and continue to grow and learn along with us.
• Learn something new every day – Grow your career with bright possibilities Fitness Motivators – Join our #Fit Sharks cult to be a part of a journey to boost your fitness. 💪 Sounds like a good fit?
• Want to apply for this position?
• Just fill in the form on this page.
• We look forward to hearing from you!
• The hiring process Fill up the form on this page A couple of quick emails and voice call with HR A technical assignment Interview with the Hiring Team A formal job offer We look forward to hearing from you! ✍️

Required qualifications

• Employer experience: 2-3 years

Employment details

• Location: Remote (India)

About the employer

• Brainstorm Force is a product-based software company that builds Word Press products and Saa S applications, while also hosting Word Press production sites for

Additional role details

• Enjoy working with servers and making systems run better?
• Join our team to manage infrastructure, solve challenges, and improve the performance of our applications.
• Apply now!