DevOps Engineer (WordPress & Hosting)

Brainstorm Force is a product\-based software company that builds WordPress products and SaaS applications, while also hosting WordPress production sites for customers. We are looking for a skilled and motivated DevOps 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 cPanel, WordPress/PHP servers running on Nginx and LiteSpeed, and Laravel and Next.js SaaS 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.

• *Why You’ll Love Working With Us:**

• Remote work
• Competitive pay
• Flexible working hours
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Allowances for setting up workspace
• Excellent work\-life balance
• Career growth opportunities

• *What you’ll be doing:**

• *Customer hosting (cPanel/WHM):**

• Maintain the servers that host our customers’ production WordPress 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.

• *WordPress/PHP servers:**

• Run and tune Nginx \+ PHP\-FPM and LiteSpeed/OpenLiteSpeed stacks with MySQL/MariaDB and Redis.
• Fix slow sites, 5xx errors, memory exhaustion and database bottlenecks.

• *SaaS 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.

• *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 WordPress/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.
• MySQL/MariaDB basics: backups, restores, finding slow queries.
• Redis working knowledge: installing and securing it (no public exposure, password/ACL), WordPress 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:**

• cPanel/WHM server administration or shared\-hosting infrastructure experience
• LiteSpeed/OpenLiteSpeed, PHP\-FPM tuning
• Deploying Laravel or Node.js/Next.js apps; PM2/Supervisor
• Load balancer setup (Nginx, HAProxy, cloud LB)
• AWS CloudFront and other AWS services (EC2, Route 53, CloudWatch)
• Bash scripting, Ansible, Docker, CI/CD

Ready for an exciting journey? Apply now and be part of our awesome team! We're excited to hear from you!

Pay: ₹600,000\.00 \- ₹800,000\.00 per year

Benefits

• Flexible schedule

Application Question(s)

• Do you have hands\-on experience managing and troubleshooting WordPress/PHP applications at the server level, including Linux, Nginx, PHP\-FPM, or LiteSpeed?

Work Location: Remote