Description
The Opportunity
Modern Tribe is looking to add a seasoned WordPress DevOps Engineer to our team for a 10 hour per week remote contract. The opportunity is a chance to jump in with both the services and products teams to work across client projects and our WordPress plugin products, including the Events Calendar.
You will work to plan, tune, and maintain our online systems so that we delight our users with fast websites, and we delight our developers with clean, stable, and predictable environments to work in.
ResponsibilitiesThe DevOps engineer is a hugely important person that helps keep everything running smoothly – our production systems, and our developers.
As a remote WordPress DevOps Engineer at Modern Tribe, some of your key responsibilities will be:
- Architect and maintain multi-site, high-availability, production solutions
- Help streamlining deployment process and CI
- Diagnose and resolve production system issues
- Manage, monitor, and scale our cloud infrastructure
- Work with developers to hunt down and resolve performance and reliability bottlenecks
- Stay up to date on emerging technologies, investigate new technologies to see if there are improvements that can be made
We love working with each other because we have built a culture that suits us well. We work exclusively with freelancers and coordinate their talents for large projects. Learn more about how our team works, what traits we look for in new team members and more here.
Personal Competencies- Strong communication skills
- Experience working as part of a remote team
- Self-motivated, detail-oriented
- Strong organizational skills
- A methodical approach to all tasks
- Ability to prioritize workloads and meet deadlines
- Fluent English speaker
- Full time 100% freelancers only!
- Experience deploying and scaling PHP based applications
- Experience building/implementing continuous integration and systematized deployment pipelines
- Some experience doing Back End development. At the very least, be able to read code and understand what’s going on, and specifically what it means to make back end code perform well (caching, etc).
- Big plus if you’re experienced with high scale WordPress instances
- Big plus if you can write modern PHP
- WordPress developer experience
- Experience with a few different system automation tools (Chef, Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack, etc)
- Experience with ElasticSearch and/or Redis
- Experience with Jenkins
- Experience with AWS
Info for the application
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